Lead Project Data Controller - United Kingdom - AstraZeneca

Description

Location – Remote Outside IR35
Make a meaningful difference at AstraZeneca

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines.

That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. At AstraZeneca we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges.

We continuously forge partnerships that help pursue world-class medicines in new ways, combining our people's exceptional skills with those of people from all over the globe.

This statistical software development position sits in our Quantitative Solutions (QS) team, within Statistical Innovation group, part of the Respiratory Biometrics Department.

QS is a centre of excellence for building high quality software tools to provide novel statistical analyses, advanced analytics, and business solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Being the
  project lead for the development team, ensuring the tool functionality is representative of the needs of stakeholders.

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Defining the
scope and expected
deliveries &
timelines for projects
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Planning the workload and delivery of development
sprints, using Jira efficiently

• Taking
  accountability for Jira board maintenance, project documentation, and ensuring that risks, issues and tool scope are actively and effectively managed
• Defining and ensuring delivery of appropriate rollout, training, and advertising for the statistical software projects
• Presenting to teams, capturing feedback on tool usage and value, monitoring further development needs / opportunities.

Qualifications:

• BSc or above in statistics, mathematics, data science, or related
  subject
• Experience of providing programming for package development, testing, and validation of R packages for either statistical analysis, modeling & simulation, or business applications
• Broad understanding of clinical drug development & the pharmaceutical environment
• Experience, or understanding, of endtoend agile software tool development and lifecycle management
• Knowledge of other programming languages (e.g. R-Shiny, Java, Python, Spotfire, C/C++, VBA/VBS) would be advantageous

Benefits:

• We are an
  equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industryleading skills.