Senior Principal Scientist, Data Science RWE

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The Real-world Evidence & Advanced Analytics team within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines is looking for outstanding scientists and leaders whose responsibilities include:

• Be a hands-on scientific and technical leader, leading a portfolio of RWE projects, developing best practices, and mentoring team members.
• Identify common technical requirements for RWE projects, develop and maintain a common suite of tools that enable RWE data scientists to accelerate project delivery.
• End-to-end expertise in RWE studies including conceptualizing research questions, data feasibility, study design, analysis, programming, and interpretation.
• Provide thought leadership and hands-on programming expertise for developing and applying Real-World Data (“RWD”) methodologies to mitigate observed and unobserved biases in the execution of external control arm studies, hybrid control studies, comparative effectiveness analyses, etc.
• Provide thought leadership and hands-on programming expertise to generate actionable insights from post-hoc RCT analyses, observational databases, and literature reviews to support regulatory agency interactions.
• Independently create study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and statistical programming deliverables including analysis-ready data, tables and figures
• Partner with the Data Science Therapeutic Area scientists to conceptualize, lead, shape and deliver Real World Evidence

Required qualifications:

• A Ph.D. degree in epidemiology or biostatistics
• Expert coding skills using R, Python, or SAS
• At least 5 years of relevant experience within biopharma companies, RWE consulting firms, or other relevant healthcare industries
• Extensive hands-on experience with data extraction, cleaning, and analysis, as well as statistical methods to mitigate confounding and selection biases
• Expertise with multiple real-world data sources (EHR, insurance claims, registry data). Familiarity with clinical trial data structure
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with drug discovery and the clinical development process
• Subject matter knowledge in oncology, Immunology or Neuroscience
• Experience in regulatory-grade evidence, communicating and responding to agency reviews and comments.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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