.Job Description**JOB DESCRIPTION**We are vital links between an idea for a new medicine and the people who need it. We are the people of PPD — thousands of employees in locations worldwide connected by tenacity and passion for our purpose: to improve health. You will be joining a truly collaborative and winning culture as we strive to bend the time and cost curve of delivering life-saving therapies to patients.PPD's data analytics programming group supports the centralized monitoring organization in delivering new approaches to risk surveillance and centralized statistical monitoring. We create the data reports, data visualization, tools, and utilities the centralized monitoring group uses to monitor and manage clinical study data to proactively identify risks in a clinical trial. These tools provide insight into things like:- Data errors, deviations- Trends, outliers- Unusual variation (or lack of variation)- Potential data manipulation, fraud- Other systematic errors or data integrity issues.As a data analytics programmer, you'll be mapping data, creating custom reports, creating custom visualizations/dashboards, and creating other specialized tools and utilities used in centralized statistical and risk surveillance activities on assigned trials.At PPD we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We offer continued career advancement opportunities, award winning training and benefits focused on the health and wellbeing of our employees.**Summarized Purpose**:Computer programming position working with and integrating data from a variety of internal and external systems. Provides programming support for some or all of the following activities: creation, validation and maintenance of programs and visualizations used for risk reviews, risk metrics reporting and issue/risk trending to support Risk Based and Centralized Monitoring. Assists with developing tools and techniques for improving process efficiencies within Data Analytics; including but not limited to: data integration automation, data retrieval automation, and report generation automation.**Essential Functions**:- Independently create, execute, maintain and validate programs used to transfer data across multiple systems, integrate data from a variety of sources and structures, generate summary data from a variety of sources, generate reports or integrate multiple databases.- Independently create, execute, maintain, publish and validate visualizations used in support of Centralized Monitoring.- As a contributing member, assist in creating tools, techniques and processes for automating Data Analytics tasks (data integration automation, data retrieval automation, data mapping automation and automated report generation.)- Perform other programming tasks as necessary to support Data Analytics or other functional groups involved in Risk Based and Centralized Monitoring