Intern – Clinical Data Engineer
This internship offers recent graduates a chance to build and maintain clinical data pipelines, ensuring data quality and compliance across trials. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform raw clinical data into actionable insights for regulatory submissions.
Skills required
About this role
When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.
Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.
Your career starts here!
We are looking for ambitious recent graduates who are ready to take their first step into the professional world. This paid 12-month internship is designed to provide meaningful experience, structured learning, mentorship, and exposure to real projects that will help you grow both personally and professionally.
This is an opportunity for an Clinical Data Engineer internship. The Intern Clinical Data Engineer works with close supervision to support various activities related to electronic data, and/or the application of computer and communication technologies. General areas of responsibility include programming offline listings, trend analysis, data review, ingestion, and reconciliation of third party data. All tasks should be performed in accordance with corporate quality standards, SOPs/Work Instructions/Guidelines, ICH-GCP and/or other international regulatory requirements.
General areas of responsibility also include:
- Programming of offline listings and custom reports to allow better insights to all external data.
- Handling Missing Values, reading raw data files, creating data structures, handling programming errors, accessing, and managing data, appending, and concatenating SAS datasets.
- Accountable for first time quality on all deliverables.
- Maintain all supporting documentation for studies in accordance with SOPs/Guidelines/Work Instructions to ensure traceability and regulatory compliance. This includes the documentation of any deviations and dissemination of these to the rest of the project teams.
- Work with global teams.
Requirements:
- Final Year (Under-Grad Degree) or Honor Degree students in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science.
Please note - this Internship starts January 2027 and is office based in Bloemfontein
Closing Date: 30 October 2026
