Job Title: Data Analyst Level 3
Location: Secunderabad, India
Department: Scientific
Job Code: 1340
Overview
About Certara
Certara is a dynamic and growing company dedicated to accelerating the development of meaningful medicines that significantly impact society and those in need. We highly value innovation and creativity, providing opportunities for training and continuous professional development. Our portfolio encompasses the entire drug development process—from discovery and preclinical phases to clinical and post-marketing phases—working with 1,200 commercial companies, 250 academic institutions, and numerous regulatory agencies.
In this role, you will be responsible for interpreting and analyzing clinical trial data across various therapeutic areas. You will actively contribute to the development of database products that facilitate informed decision-making during clinical development and post-approval phases through modeling and simulation approaches. This position requires a deep understanding of pharmacology and clinical research, as well as experience in the development and quality management processes of clinical databases, systematic literature reviews, and meta-analyses.
Responsibilities
- Play a key role in developing high-quality clinical database products across therapeutic areas such as Metabolic & Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Autoimmune, Oncology, and Respiratory, supporting various meta-analyses (pairwise, network, and model-based).
- Analyze and review trial design, treatment data, demographics, and outcomes (including biomarkers, clinical data, safety, and quality of life).
- Extract data from graphs for outcomes reported on linear, logarithmic, and semi-log scales with precision.
- Consistently maintain high-quality standards, providing feedback and training to Level 1 and Level 2 data analysts to enhance database quality.
- Review literature search results, identify missed cases, and share analysis reports to improve the PICOS-based search algorithm.
- Collaborate with lead consultants, peer data analysts, and quality managers to understand and contribute to database rules, metadata management, specifications, and ongoing quality enhancements to ensure "first-time correctness."
- Participate in relevant training programs (Statistics, R coding, systematic literature reviews, and data analysis methods) to enhance your skills and advance within the organization.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics, Clinical Practice, Public Health, or Epidemiology. PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences or MD in Pharmacology are also eligible, even with minimal or no work experience.
- 2-4 years of experience in information science, systematic literature review, health economics, or the public health sector, with pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of pharmacology and clinical research is essential.
- Familiarity with clinical development phases, PICOS approach, trial designs, and pharmaceutical industry data standards/ontologies.
- Knowledge of statistics and data management tools like R is advantageous.
- Ability to thrive in a team environment and effectively communicate with and collaborate with peer scientists.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong ability to learn, enabling support for databases across multiple disease areas.
Certara is committed to merit-based employment decisions, considering qualifications, skills, achievements, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or any other characteristic protected by law.
