Senior Associate Biostatistical Programmer

About the role

Amgen's Center for Observational Research (CfOR) in Taiwan is hiring a Senior Associate Biostatistical Programmer. The role supports generating real-world evidence (RWE) through hands-on programming, data management and reporting on real-world health care data, working with epidemiologists and cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, test, validate and run code and macros that create analysis datasets, tables, listings and figures for drug development decisions
• Lead and develop technical programming and process improvement initiatives within CfOR
• Collaborate with peers in clinical and epidemiology functions and represent the programming team
• Manage programming activities, solve programming issues and ensure adherence to departmental standards, SOPs and local compliance and regulatory standards
• Write and review programming plans and dataset specifications, and review statistical analysis plans (SAPs) and data management plans (DMPs)
• Help develop departmental policies and controlled documents, recruit programming staff, and take part in external professional organizations, conferences and meetings

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree and at least four years of relevant statistical programming experience, including postgraduate research experience
• Master's degree in a related field, or equivalent combinations of education and experience as stated in the posting
• Experience establishing analysis standards, QC/QA processes and controlled change management
• Willingness to learn regulatory-grade analyses and submission-ready deliverables, and to work with real-world healthcare data such as MDV and DeSC
• Ability to produce validated, traceable and reproducible outputs under SOPs and quality systems

Required skills

• SQL, SAS and R programming
• Git-based version control and analysis documentation
• Foundational understanding of medical statistics (study design, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals)
• Experience or willingness to learn RWE generation in pharma or clinical trial programming

What we offer

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across the global organization
• A generous total rewards plan covering health, finance and wealth, work/life balance and career benefits
• An equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for disabilities