[Hiring] Senior SAS Programmer @Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences

Role Description

The senior programmer position will be responsible for manipulating large databases and generating reports to enable analysts to explore real world healthcare data assets.

• Candidates must have excellent SAS and SQL programming skills and the ability to implement complex logic.
• Candidates must be comfortable with creating complex analysis data sets derived from various data sources with a careful eye for outliers and errors.
• Prior experience building patient cohorts and evaluating patient healthcare events in large databases and using observational research methods such as epidemiology and statistical methods is strongly desired.
• Strong communication, time management, enthusiasm and documentation skills are essential in this home-based position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other subject with high statistical content
• Minimum four years SAS statistical programming experience
• Database programming using SQL
• Experience with advanced statistical methods such as survival and regression
• Experience with real world healthcare claims and EHR data such as MarketScan, Optum and Medicare databases

Requirements

• Master's degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Computer Science, or other subject with high statistical content
• Training or experience using the OMOP common data model
• Experience working with CDISC standards
• Training or experience with Python, R, Databricks or other cloud-based software
• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Training or experience in epidemiological methods