Principal Programmer (RWE)
Purpose
The role of the Principal Programmer is to provide leadership and expertise in RWE Statistical Programming to Veramed’s clients across a range of projects, clients and therapeutic areas
Key Responsibilities
The Principal Programmer (RWE) will be responsible for taking the lead on the manipulation of large databases and generation of reports to enable exploration of “real world” healthcare data (derived predominantly from electronic health records (EHR) and medical claims datasets).
The Principal Programmer (RWE) is expected both to lead work projects but also to work independently (including carrying out QC checks on their own deliverables and interim outputs). The Principal Programmer (RWE) will, additionally, be expected to review outputs from other colleagues, typically those more junior to them, and to provide advice on process improvements if any errors (whether one-off or systematic) are found in other peoples’ work. They will also carry out a number of management activities.
Technical
• Build analytic data sets from raw RWE datasets (i.e.



EHR and/or US/European Medical Claims datasets) using SQL or other relational database languages
• Conduct complex statistical programming on RWE analytic datasets using R or SAS to generate statistically valid outputs including point estimates, Kaplan-Meier plots
• Build and populate table shells as per SAP
• Carry out oncology-specific analyses such as determination of line of therapy (using algorithms)
• Carry out data cleaning and wrangling activities including imputation of missing data
• Deploy formal statistical tools such as MCAR to measure and report level of variable missingness
• Build proxies and/or workarounds to report on relevant outputs when key variables of interest are missing from the raw dataset
• Make use of common data models to allow projects to be reproduced across various datasets/countries
• Carry out rapid feasibility requests to determine number of patients avail

📌 Principal Real World Evidence Programmer (Visakhapatnam)
🏢 Veramed
📍 Visakhapatnam