IT Senior System Analyst, Clinical Programming

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Job Title:
Job ID: 14816
Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Offsite Territory:
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Category: Information Technology
Department: IT - Applications - 4162

Celgene Corporation is committed to delivering innovative therapies designed to improve the lives of patients worldwide. We are a global biopharmaceutical company with operations in more than 70 countries that is helping to turn incurable cancers into chronic, manageable conditions. We are seeking talented professionals as we continue to grow and advance our efforts in oncology, hematology and immune and inflammatory disease. If you would like to join a company where you can make a difference, please consider the Celgene family.

- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- At a minimum, 5 years of experience with SAS product Suite, CDR and MDR
- 3 years or more years of experience Administering SAS product suite in a regulated Pharmaceutical environment

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Provide leadership and direction as it relates to design and implementation for the SAS platform.
Technical Lead and global point of contact for all SAS Administrator related projects and activities.
- Own and drive the SAS Product patching and release upgrade activity and act as liaison to SAS for any support issues
- Provide maintenance and support for SAS products during deployment, upgrade and any changes to SAS products and/or during other enterprise activities that impact SAS infrastructure
- Track SAS products inventory and license updates for SAS Servers and end users
- Establish best practices for administering and interpreting sources of data
- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 technical end-user support related to SAS Administration, CDR and MDR
- Proactively monitor and tune appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance
Manage the configuration support and maintenance of the platform for SCE, MDR, CDR
- Oversee, recommend and implement appropriate solutions and enhancements to ensure an improvement in system reliability and performance
- Monitor usage logs to assist in performance tuning of the systems and servers
- Create SDLC documentation and ensure alignment to overall SDLC and Change Management, Release management and Configuration processes
- Conform to system architecture standards and practices and work with outsourced suppliers as required to keep up to date with enabling technologies
- Interface directly with various IT functional areas as it pertains to SAS, MDR,CDR Administration
- Address other IT tasks as assigned by supervisor
- Perform installation, upgrade and configuration of SAS technology products on all supported server environments.
- Monitor the overall availability and performance of the current SAS technology server environments and take corrective actions as necessary to insure peak operational performance.

Provide solution assistance to ensure that the most appropriate technology is selected to satisfy the business requirements and to provide user assistance during early phases of the project lifecycle.

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- Contribute to the development of standards and operating procedures for the environments and the development of new service offerings to insure that the user community receives the highest levels of support.

- Responsible for providing SAS technical support to end users and implementing new SAS technical solutions including:
- Helping to establish coding standards and best practices.
- Supporting SAS developers with coding issues.

Skills/Knowledge/Experience Required:

- Experience and/or certification in SAS platform administration
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5 years or more years of experience with SAS product Suite 9x, including PC SAS, SAS STAT, SAS Graph, SAS Connect, SAS Access products
- 3 years or more years of experience Administering SAS product suite.
- Mid level familiarity (1-3 years) with RDBMS (Oracle, etc.), systems and SQL.
- Strong analytical, communication, technical teamwork and interpersonal skills are mandatory.
- Ability to research and recommend technical designs and architectures to support requirements.
- Work on various IT and business projects to meet needs of the customers.
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux/Windows environments and Shell scripting
- Ability to effectively interface with clients (including senior management) and the technical team.
- Must be client service-driven with excellent communication, relationship management and analytical skills
- Ability to work and contribute in a team environment.
- Ability to perform tasks proactively with minimal supervision.

Experience with systems in a Pharmaceutical environment

Competencies Required:

- Minimum 3 years experience as a system administrator installing, configuring, and maintaining SAS Application Server software; and as a system administrator working with established change management processes.
- Subject Matter Expert in SAS Administration
- System Administration experience.
- Programming experience.
- Application design and architecture experience.
- Knowledge of the Clinical Trial process

- Performance measurement:
- Design and implement a Solution Architecture suitable to business needs.
- System Administration
- Programming/Development in the Clinical Area

Celgene is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Celgene complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must have authorization to work for Celgene in the U.S.

Employment applicants requiring immigration sponsorship must disclose, when initial application for employment is made, whether or not they are legally authorized to work in the U.S. and if so, whether that authorization permits them to work in the job they seek. In no case should Celgene support of a potential employee's temporary visa application be construed to guarantee success of that application or amend or otherwise invalidate the "at-will" employment relationship between the employee and Celgene.