Sanofi Healthcare India Private Limited Posted May 25, 2026

Principal Stats Programmer (VAX)

Hyderabad, India Full time
Data & Digital Principal

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About this opportunity

External Job Description

As a Principal Statistical Programmer within our Hyderabad Hub, you’ll be part of a performing team, delivering biostatistics and programming activities throughout the Vaccines R&D value chain (Pre-Clinical, Clinical, Translational, CMC) with our Vaccines Global Biostatistical Sciences team.

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

Plan and execute high quality and timely statistical programming deliverables in the context of a vaccine project

At study level for various analyses within a study:

Review and provide feedback on study documents (e.g.: protocol statistical section, Case Report Form, Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP)); create mock TLFs

Write and provide the programming specifications for the SDTM/ADaM/TLFs to fulfil the study or project objectives

Deliver compliant CDISC data package with all relevant documentation (ie: aCRF, reviewers guide, define.xml) fulfilling Heath Authorities expectations

At project level for various analyses within an asset:

Review and provide feedback on integrated analysis plan and create mock TLFs

Create core integrated clinical database, pooling SDTM/ADaM across several studies for different reporting purposes like ISS/ISE/ISI, DSUR, PBRER or safety surveillance

Ensure TLF’s format fulfil the requirements of targeted publishing (i.e.: clinical study report, publication, Transparency like Eudract, CTT.gov, lay summaries,...)

Take leadership, guiding more junior staff and ensuring quality and timely deliveries

Perform quality control for statistical programming deliverables and complete the associated documentation: Validation plan and quality control (QC) documentation.

Propose and Program exploratory and/or post’hoc analyses based on problem statement

Ensure compliance to SOP's, standards, and guidelines.

About you

You are a passionate leader with following experience and competences who like the challenge and growing into a new environment:

Experience:

6+ years experience in statistical programming clinical research with some Vaccines experience (designs, endpoints, statistical methods, …)

SAS (>3 years): excellent technical skills in BASE, STAT, MACRO, GRAPH, SQL, R, and familiar in statistical programming

Experience programming CDISC SDTM/ADaM datasets and notably vaccines specifics (including writing specifications, P21, proficiency with controlled terminology, value-level metadata, analysis results metadata, define.xml, Reviewers Guide)

Experience in providing solutions for complex programming issues (including creation of complex macros), presenting alternatives and identifying the best solution

Experience pooling data from multiple studies according to existing specifications

Experience planning and drafting specifications for pooling data from multiple studies

Consistent successful experience as a lead on several concurrent studies/projects

e-submission preparation experience strongly preferred

Skills:

Good understanding of processes associated with clinical trials

Ability to independently create specifications

Knowledge of descriptive statistics

Demonstrate interpersonal skills necessary for effective teamwork

Demonstrate ability to organize multiple work assignments and establish priorities

Demonstrate critical thinking skills beyond simply following directions or specifications

Ability to lead complex and large tasks, demonstration of strong project management skills

Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related health sciences or equivalent experience

Pursue progress , discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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Job details

Seniority
Principal
Function
Data & Digital
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Hyderabad, India
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Data & Digital role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 88 comparable Principal Data & Digital roles across 23 biopharma companies.

88Comparable roles tracked
82Currently active
23Companies hiring similar roles
11Countries represented

Salary context

18 of 88 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Associate, Metadata Engineering · Pfizer $79,400/yr – $132,400/yr
Highest disclosed · Director and Group Head, Applied AI · Novartis $194,600/yr – $361,400/yr
Peer group range $105,900 – $278,000 (median $220,533)

Where these roles are based

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India45
United States23
United Kingdom5
Ireland3
Switzerland3
China2

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Seniority mix

88 of 88 peers have a known seniority level

Senior57
Director16
Principal15

Therapeutic area mix

2 of 88 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology2

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