Snr Clinical Database Designer (Clinical Research)

Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa; other listed locations include Bellville and Centurion, South Africa. On-site role.

Company

IQVIA provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Interpret study protocols and design clinical databases and eCRFs using third-party or in-house CDMS tools.
• Create and maintain edit specification documents and specifications for EDC build components, including rights, roles, system settings, and home pages.
• Design InForm databases for LLRR data collection and ensure appropriate access for data entry and updates.
• Participate in pre-design, screen review, data review, and internal design meetings; lead meetings where required.
• Coordinate with data team leads, programmers, validation teams, vendors, statisticians, and client representatives.
• Manage project risks, timelines, quality issues, financial inputs, multiple concurrent studies, and process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, computer science, information technology, or technology.
• 7+ years of total experience, including 2–4 years of relevant technical designer experience.
• Experience with clinical study database design, EDC build activities, edit specifications, and CDMS tools.
• Ability to work across multiple study design projects and platforms.
• Ability to identify project risks, escalate quality issues, and maintain required training and standard operating procedure compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Work involves collaboration with cross-functional clinical research and client-facing stakeholders.
• Opportunity to contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Responsibilities include structured project-specific training and adherence to standard operating procedures.