Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

PPD’s mission is to improve health. It starts as an idea to find a cure. It becomes a life saved. All in-between, it’s you!  We know that meaningful results not only require the right approach, but also the right people.  We invite you to re-imagine health promoting protocols with us, working alongside our talented, bright and energetic teams.   

We are passionate about being data and technically agile and driving enhanced value for our clients and patients. Determined to improve patient health, we help PPD provide industry-leading statistical, programming and clinical pharmacology contributions through global delivery, consistent quality adherence and scientific insight. 

As a Programmer Analyst II you will perform you will perform advanced analytics and programming for the in-stream assessment of risk to support Centralized Monitoring

At PPD we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We offer continued career advancement opportunities, award winning training and benefits focused on the health and wellbeing of our employees.   

Summarized Purpose:   

Computer programming position working with and integrating data from a variety of internal and external systems. Provides programming support for some or all the following activities: creation, validation and maintenance of programs and visualizations used for risk reviews, risk metrics reporting and issue/risk trending to support Centralized Monitoring. Assists with developing tools and techniques for improving process efficiencies within Data Analytics; including but not limited to: data integration automation, data retrieval automation, and report generation automation.

Essential Functions:   

• Independently create, execute, maintain and validate programs used to transfer data across multiple systems, integrate data from a variety of sources and structures, generate summary data from a variety of sources, generate reports or integrate multiple databases.
• Independently create, execute, maintain, publish and validate visualizations used in support of Centralized Monitoring.
• As a contributing member, assist in creating tools, techniques and processes for automating Data Analytics tasks (data integration automation, data retrieval automation, data mapping automation and automated report generation.)
• Perform other programming tasks as necessary to support Data Analytics or other functional groups involved in Risk Based and Centralized Monitoring.
• Responsible for clearly documenting all work; managing assignments to meet timelines and delivering high quality.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the role of the programmer in the overall process.
• Increase personal and peer knowledge base and professional skills in areas including programming, risk-based monitoring, centralized monitoring, data science/data analytics, technology and techniques, clinical trials, and the pharmaceutical industry.