Clinical Analytics Engineering

Clinical Analytics Engineering

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at ~~~ .

This position is based in Ontario, Canada. Remote work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas' Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in remote work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose and Scope:

The Clinical Application Engineer will be responsible for providing programming and analytic support for the development and testing of applications to answer disease, health, and value questions across Astellas. These applications will be integrated into a larger platform to efficiently conduct analysis on Real World Data (RWD) and other data sources.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Develop programs that execute analyses on a common data platform for quick, reliable information about patient populations in the US and globally.

• Design R shiny applications that are user friendly and meet customer requirements.

• Automate application testing and manually complete workflow tests.

• Review peer's programming code to ensure high quality and thorough documentation.

• Ensure analyses are statistically valid and methodologically sound.

• Collaborate closely with teammates to share best practices and support development.

• Meet regularly with internal stakeholders to define requirements and to help them effectively use the tools.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, analytics, programming, or related field

• 5+ years relevant experience

• Experienced programmer in R, Shiny and SQL

• Understanding of common medical code sets, including ICD-10, CPT and NDC

• Experience developing and executing analyses with various types of patient-level RWD data sources, including insurance claims.

• Experience with code quality review and testing methodologies.

• Experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Familiar with reproducible research practices like version control and literate programming

• Experience working on project teams and managing projects within a matrix environment.

• Excellent organizational, people, project, and time management skills

• Solid oral, written, and presentation communication skills (e.g., able to clearly communicate statistical and epidemiological issues and methods to statisticians and non-statisticians)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in related field

• Experience working with the OMOP Common Data Model

• Experience with OHDSI software, including ATLAS and HADES

• Experience with automated testing frameworks

• Experience with Posit products including Posit Workbench and Posit Connect

• Work experience in support of biopharmaceutical R&D activities

• Experience with machine learning and artificial intelligence

• Experience with Agile software development

• Experience with AWS Workspace and Amazon Redshift

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

• Generous Paid Time Off options, including Vacation, Sick time, plus national holidays including Heritage Days, and Summer and Winter Breaks

• Country specific Retirement Savings Plan (401k, RRSP, etc. with company match)

• Company paid life insurance

• Annual Corporate Bonus and Quarterly Sales Incentive for eligible positions

• Long Term Incentive Plan for eligible positions

• Referral bonus program

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EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans