Senior Biostatistician - Bengaluru, India - Indegene

Description

Job Description:

Designation : Statistical Analyst / Biostatistician

Required Experience: Overall: 2 – 5+ Years

• Must have 2- 3+ years of relevant work experience with R programming (Advance Level)

• 2 years of experience with Spark environment coding

• 2 years of using Github for code reviews

• MPH, MS, or PHD (or equivalent) in epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, health economics or a related quantitative field (e.g. applied mathematics).

Good to have: Preferred:

• Familiarity of principles of feasibility assessment, observational study design and data analysis

• Java experience a plus

Key Tasks

• Methodological Support
• Support off-platform implementation of RWD protocols (e.g. drafting protocol sections) for descriptive studies (e.g., drug utilization and natural history of disease studies) and comparative studies (effect estimation)
• Support the execution of scientific validation plans for RWD PLATFORM applications
• Provide statistical methods support in protocol and analysis
• Study Execution
• Develop documentation necessary for the execution off-platform support (i.e., study components conducted in R)
• Responsible to document off-platform support from biostatistics in adherence best practices for off-platform support
• Lead off-platform Implementation of protocols for descriptive and comparative studies, validation studies, and other types of studies in alignment with best practices; implementation activities include project management, writing analysis plans as needed, executing RWD PLATFORM/programming tasks, and ensuring completion of quality control (QC)
• R Coding
• Able to implement less complex off-platform code efficiently
• Able to write functions and loops
• Able to write data processing pipelines using dplyr and SQL
• Support the development tools for automation ensuring scalability of the Biostatistics team's analytics capabilities
• Independently support the implementation of less complex off-platform work.
• Execute complex off-platform support under supervision of more senior team members
• Able to independently develop code based on given specifications
• Subject Matter Expertise
• Build a strong understanding of multiple healthcare databases relevant to pharmacoepidemiology/HEOR and serve as internal consultant to team members on nuances of these data sources
• Strong understanding of, at least, one RWD PLATFORM application (e.g., Substantiate or Discover)
• Ability and interest to grow knowledge base in: pharmacoepidemiology, HEOR, and/or biostatistical methods as applied to observational RWE studies.
• Able to translate these learnings into product recommendations
• Identify, compile and abstract relevant literature to support engagements with external organizations (regulatory agencies, HTAs, clients) and internal organizations (Product and Technology)

Support the development and maintenance of Client's scientific assets such as study templates, definition library of clinical conditions, and other deployable scientific components