Principal Clinical Programmer (Rave Programming)
Syneos Health · Marion County, IN · 1 mo ago
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We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually description includes many paragraphs. We need to extract sections: About the role? The posting includes description of company, responsibilities, qualifications, etc. We need to use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc). Also remove application instructions. We need to preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the description. Let's extract: - About the role: maybe the introductory paragraph describing role? The posting starts with "Description Principal Clinical Programmer (Rave Programming) Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization..." That's more about company. Could be "About the role" maybe not explicit. But we can create "About the role" section summarizing the role description: "Principal Clinical Programmer (Rave Programming)" responsibilities etc. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include the content verbatim? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep the text as is, but we can structure with headings and lists. We can keep paragraphs as
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- . The posting includes many responsibilities listed as sentences separated by periods. We need to identify list items. Probably we can treat each responsibility sentence as a list item under Responsibilities. Similarly for Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: we need to extract those. Let's parse the posting: First paragraph: "Description Principal Clinical Programmer (Rave Programming) Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. We know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress." That's company overview. Could be placed under "About the role" or maybe "About Syneos Health". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could put company overview under About the role. Next: "Job Responsibilities" heading then a block of responsibilities. Let's extract responsibilities sentences: "Must have experience in Rave Programming, Custom Functions Programming (Moderate to Complex) with minimum 2+ years in CF. Overall 10+ years of experience is required.Must have Migration exposure, Publish Check, PPC, TSDV, Study Build programing, SDBE Rave certification mandatory.Preferred Veeva CDMS experience.Provides application administration and technical support as the subject matter expert on all core business packages, including but not limited to: Medidata, Rave, Oracle OC/RDC, Oracle Inform, SAS, and supplemental packages such as migration mentoring/review, reporting tools, custom functions, etc. Utilizes primary development tools and other supporting tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures.Generates and maintains all required documentation including the development of specifications, coding, and validation efforts in support of annotated Case Report Forms (CRF)s, database creation, coding setup, edit check procedures, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.Monitors applications proactively for workflow alerts, system errors, performance issues and troubleshoot programming deliverable defects.Performs system integrations activities, application updates, and user acceptance testing.Serves on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for clinical programming projects. Attends meetings, participates in discussions, uses an analytical approach to problem solving, focuses on deliverables, and provides constructive feedback. Keeps those responsible for project management informed of any issues that might impact project target dates, scope, or budget and escalates potential problems effectively and in a timely manner. Balances multiple task assignments and communicates needs to supervisor to obtain needed resources.Participates in and provides input at project review and departmental review meetings. Participates in bid defenses.Ensures high quality deliverables by providing senior review of ’program level’/multi-study core deliveries for accuracy. Attends sponsor audits and assists with in-progress audits.Reviews and provides input on study budgets, manages project level metrics, progress, and status, for large programs of studies from key sponsors. Monitors scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders; manages and executes the change order to completion. Assists with the creation of change orders.Provides leadership, mentorship, training, guidance, and support to other department members based upon expertise in specific skill sets. Collaborates with clients, peers, lead programmers, project teams and/or requestors to clarify and finalize specifications and uses expanded technical skills to meet evolving project needs.Attends Quick Start Camps (QSCs) in the lead Clinical Programmer role for assigned studies.Provides leadership/oversight of five (5) to twenty (20) concurrent studies depending upon scope, similarity, program, and resourcing requirements. This may include the oversight of other lead programmers and their associated studies.Manages project resources, proactively alerting management of delivery and resourcing needs.Assists with management of application vendors and serves as an initial escalation contact. Monitors vendor service level agreements (SLAs) and reports metrics to upper management.Supervises the implementations of upgrades and new modules of remotely hosted vendors, acquiring all documentation and storing in the relevant areas.Possesses and maintains a broad overall knowledge in the field of clinical programming and clinical data management by reading related literature, self-training, attending training classes, attending professional meetings, etc.Contributes towards the update of standard operating procedures and work instructions in line with department and company process and policy.As required, oversees program level clinical programming operations by providing supervision for a team of clinical programmers. Responsibilities may include professional development performance appraisals, and employee advising for junior staff. Assigns project work and reviews workload for all direct reports. Manages staff development by establishing goals that will increase knowledge and skill levels and by delegating tasks commensurate with skill level. Resolves conflicts/priorities at the program level prior to making any recommendations to management. Advises on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods." That is a long block; many sentences. We need to break into list items. Each sentence ends with a period. We'll split by period and treat each as
- . However some sentences have abbreviations with periods (e.g., "CF." "etc.") but okay. We'll need to ensure we don't create empty items. Next after responsibilities, there is "Get to know Syneos Health" paragraph (already covered). Then "Additional Information" with tasks, duties, etc. That's more generic; we might treat as part of Responsibilities or maybe Qualifications? It says: "Additional Information Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job." That's boilerplate legal/EEO etc. According to rules, we must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should discard that entire "Additional Information" block. Then "Summary" paragraph: "Serves as lead Clinical Programmer to manage and support all functional tasks and project deliverables from single study assignments to large programs of studies. Manages multiple project timelines and deliverable whilst leading less experienced programmers. Designs, writes, validates, and maintains software to meet specifications. Specifies, develops, and validates applications supporting data capture and processing. As senior technical subject matter expert, supports clinical programming and Data Management staff for Electronic Data Capture (EDC), reporting, and processing tools. Proactively monitors internally and externally hosted applications for performance and/or system errors. Supports projects and applications externally. Manages external application vendor issues, integrations, and implementations. May have supervisory responsibility and/or oversight for a team of lead clinical programmers within a program." That seems like a summary of responsibilities; could be part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section but we already have Responsibilities. We could incorporate into Responsibilities as additional items. We need to avoid duplication; but we must preserve all substantive info. If we already have responsibilities list covering many items, the summary may be redundant but still substantive. We could include it as part of Responsibilities as additional items. Now we need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to extract Requirements, Qualifications, Skills from the posting. From responsibilities block we saw: "Must have experience in Rave Programming, Custom Functions Programming (Moderate to Complex) with minimum 2+ years in CF. Overall 10+ years of experience is required.Must have Migration exposure, Publish Check, PPC, TSDV, Study Build programing, SDBE Rave certification mandatory.Preferred Veeva CDMS experience." Those are requirements/qualifications. Also maybe "Must have Migration exposure, Publish Check, PPC, TSDV, Study Build programing, SDBE Rave certification mandatory." That's a requirement. Also "Preferred Veeva CDMS experience." That's a preferred qualification. Also maybe "Provides application administration and technical support as the subject matter expert on all core business packages, including but not limited to: Medidata, Rave, Oracle OC/RDC, Oracle Inform, SAS, and supplemental packages such as migration mentoring/review, reporting tools, custom functions, etc." That's more of a responsibility. Thus we can create Requirements section with those mandatory items: Rave Programming experience, Custom Functions Programming (Moderate to Complex) min 2+ years CF, Overall 10+ years experience, Migration exposure, Publish Check, PPC, TSDV, Study Build programming, SDBE Rave certification mandatory. Qualifications could be preferred: Veeva CDMS experience. Skills could be: application administration, technical support, subject matter expert on core business packages, utilizes development tools, designs/writes/validates/maintains software, generates documentation, monitors applications, troubleshoots defects, performs