At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

JOB SUMMARY

There has never been a more exciting time to be part of the Enterprise Data Analytics team at Charles River Labs. We are on a mission to position data as the core driver of our business, empowering leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions that accelerate revenue, enhance productivity, and keep us ahead of the competition. Our recently launched Enterprise Data Hub serves as the company’s digital backbone, and we are looking for visionary people in data analytics to help us further expand and refine this hub. Your role will be key in integrating, mastering, and ensuring the quality of our data across all business functions, ultimately transforming how Charles River operates through data science and advanced analytics.
You will be joining a team that is deeply committed to our purpose: Together We Create Healthier Lives. This unwavering focus on patients makes our global technology team uniquely inspiring. As we look to the future, we reimagine how we do business through our Digital Journey. This journey is central to advancing our position in the market, unlocking new growth opportunities, and positioning us as a leading, digitally powered Contract Research Organization (CRO) that enables our clients to deliver innovative, safe, and effective treatments to patients faster and more efficiently than ever before.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or related discipline, Master’s Degree preferred
• 7+ years of software development experience in Big Data
• 7+ years of experience in modern programming languages - Java, Java-based frameworks (Spring, Maven), Python
• 3+ Years of experience in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• 3+ years of experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and highly scalable Microservices and REST web Services
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Extensive experience with message driven software patterns such as Service Bus, Kafka, Tibco, EMS, and MQ

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and GraphQL APIs to support scalable, high-performance applications.
• Collaborate with data engineers and developers to create seamless integrations between APIs, data pipelines, and web applications.
• Build and maintain applications using frameworks like Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, Python Fast API, and ReactJS.
• Ensure system scalability, security, and reliability by implementing best practices in multi-threading, concurrency, and microservices architecture.
• Drive architectural decisions to optimize performance across application, data, and infrastructure domains.
• Develop and deploy solutions on Azure, utilizing tools like SQL Server, Redis, App Services, and API Management.
• Create and maintain test automation frameworks to ensure data quality and service reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment.