Senior Statistical Programmer
BH-319415
Posted: 26/11/2025
- Excellent salary on offer
- Australia New South Wales Sydney
- Permanent
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Life Sciences
Senior Statistical Programmer
NES Fircroft is seeking an experienced Senior Statistical Programmer to support a growing portfolio of clinical research projects for a leading organisation in the life sciences sector. This role offers the opportunity to lead complex studies, drive high-quality statistical programming outputs, and contribute directly to regulatory submission activities.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Head of Programming, the Senior Statistical Programmer will act as a project lead across assigned studies, serving as the primary programming contact and overseeing workload, timelines, and quality. The position plays a key role in delivering SDTM and ADaM datasets, analysis outputs, and submission-ready deliverables in alignment with industry and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
NES Fircroft is seeking an experienced Senior Statistical Programmer to support a growing portfolio of clinical research projects for a leading organisation in the life sciences sector. This role offers the opportunity to lead complex studies, drive high-quality statistical programming outputs, and contribute directly to regulatory submission activities.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Head of Programming, the Senior Statistical Programmer will act as a project lead across assigned studies, serving as the primary programming contact and overseeing workload, timelines, and quality. The position plays a key role in delivering SDTM and ADaM datasets, analysis outputs, and submission-ready deliverables in alignment with industry and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead programming activities for assigned products or study groups, coordinating tasks and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
- Represent programming in internal and client-facing meetings.
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level programmers.
- Develop and review specifications and programs for CDISC-compliant SDTM and ADaM datasets.
- Support regulatory submission requirements and documentation.
- Program analysis datasets, tables, listings and figures (TLFs) for clinical study reports.
- Provide SAS programming support to data management teams.
- Contribute to the development, validation, and enhancement of SAS macros and programming utilities.
- Uphold rigorous quality control standards across all programming activities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related scientific discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of SAS programming experience, including at least 5 years working with clinical trial data in pharma, biotech, or CRO environments.
- Strong working knowledge of CDISC (SDTM/ADaM) and regulatory submission requirements across all study phases.
- Proficiency in SAS Base, SAS Stat, SAS Macro, and SAS Graph; familiarity with R, SQL or PERL is an advantage.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience across multiple therapeutic areas is highly desirable.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.