Senior Statistical Programmer

Clinical Outcomes Solutions

Senior Statistical Programmer leveraging advanced SAS programming skills to support pharmaceutical trials. Collaborating embedded within a pharma client, enhancing patient treatment options.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timePennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Working fully embedded within one of our pharmaceutical clients, with the support of Cytel right behind you, you'll be at the heart of our client's innovation.
As a Senior Statistical Programmer, you will leverage your advanced SAS programming skills and proficiency in CDISC standards (SDTM & ADaM) to support or lead one or more Early or Late-stage clinical trials.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.
At least 8 years of SAS programming working with clinical trial data in the Pharmaceutical & Biotech industry with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. At least 6 years of related experience with a master’s degree or above.
Having experience/expertise working on Early Development studies. Programming expertise with clinical endpoint data (efficacy and safety) and pharmacokinetic data (raw concentration data, derived PK parameters).
Develop and validate global programming standards for ADaM datasets.
Develop and validate global programming standards for efficacy analysis, safety analysis and reporting.
Design and develop complex programming algorithms.
Experience in one or more of the following will be preferred: R, SPlus, NonMem.
Assist project teams in creating SDTM deliverables for Analysis and Reporting (A&R) and submission.
Support project teams in preparing submission deliverables including use of Pinnacle 21 Enterprise.
Up-versioning activities to specific versions of SDTM.
Experience supporting Oncology studies would be a plus.
Strong SAS data manipulation, analysis and reporting skills.
Solid experience implementing the latest CDISC SDTM / ADaM standards.
Knowledge of submission standards CDISC SDTM, Define.XML, SDRG, aCRF.
Strong QC / validation skills.
Good ad-hoc reporting skills.
Proficiency in Efficacy analysis.
Familiarity with drug development life cycle and experience with the manipulation, analysis and reporting of clinical trials’ data.
Submissions experience utilizing define.xml and other submission documents.
Excellent analytical & troubleshooting skills.
Ability to provide quality output and deliverables, in adherence with challenging timelines.
Ability to work effectively and successfully in a globally dispersed team environment with cross-cultural partners.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our commitment to developing our staff is only surpassed by our commitment to advancing treatment options available to patients. At Cytel, we work hard to create successful careers with significant professional growth for our employees and as a result work hard to make Cytel successful. Cytel is a place where talent, experience, and integrity come together to advance the state of clinical development.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SAS programmingCDISC standardsSDTMADaMRSPlusNonMemdata manipulationefficacy analysissafety analysis

Soft Skills

analytical skillstroubleshooting skillsQC skillsvalidation skillsad-hoc reporting skillsability to meet deadlinesteamworkcross-cultural communication