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 Overview
At Charles River Laboratories, we’re transforming how we work by harnessing the power of AI, data, and digital innovation to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving therapies. Our vision is to embed artificial intelligence and advanced analytics across every stage of our scientific and operational workflows—empowering our teams with smarter tools, seamless data, and actionable insights to deliver client-centric services and solutions that better serve our customers and, ultimately, improve patients’ lives.
This position is a technology leader who thrives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and AI innovation. Serve as a trusted advisor and hands-on expert, partnering across business units and IT to architect and optimize our Azure-based enterprise data platform. Mentor engineering and operations teams, champion best practices, and drive automation and scalability through modern DevOps and data engineering tools. Possesses deep expertise in the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem, a passion for building resilient, future-ready platforms, and a desire to shape the next generation of data and AI capabilities at Charles River. Solves complex challenges, influences architectural decisions, and enables transformative analytics.
This position reports directly to the local country manager in India, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the VP, Global Data and Analytics Officer. In addition to the leadership and team management role within the data & analytics team, this position will also have all remote Global Tech (GT) employees based in India as direct reports, including from teams such as, but limited to: IT Infrastructure & Support, Applications, Design & Development, and InfoSec & Compliance. This added responsibility is to ensure high-level local management support to all GT remote staff in India. This position will be required to partner with local HR, corporate HRBP, matrix managers, and the local country manager on employment processes, such as hiring and onboarding, performance management, compensation processes (bonus & salary planning), etc.
- This is a fully remote, work-from-home position based in India.
- Candidates must be able to work standard UK business hours.
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key member of the Enterprise Data & Analytics leadership team
- Provide leadership and support to data & analytics team members in a follow the sun support model for building and managing data solutions
- Serve as a local manager for all remote GT staff based in India, host regular check-in meetings with each employee.
- Regularly meet with matrix managers of India-based GT employees
- Provide support to users of data & analytics products
- Ensure our data solutions are secure, cost-effective, highly responsive and fit for purpose across our extensive database and storage infrastructure
- Champion the use of data, technology & modern tooling to optimize our solutions and provide continuous process improvements
- Assist in monitoring technology budgets and spend recommending cost optimization where appropriate
Knowledge/Skill Requirement:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Math, or related fields; Master’s degree is preferred
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- 12+ years of progressively responsible experience in information technology
- 7+ years building data platforms in Azure with the following services Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Azure Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Network, Azure App Service, Fabric, Power BI
- 7+ years of management experience in a technology organization with a strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams
- 7+ years managing data and analytics teams
- 5+ years managing and facilitating follow-the-sun data operations and/or data engineering
- 5+ years of incident management and resolution
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
Preferred Skills:
- Proficiency in troubleshooting database issues.
- Proficiency in Data Warehousing & BI Analytics.
- Experience with Infrastructure As Code.
- Experience designing and managing Generative AI systems for document ingestion, summarization, and content generation.
- Expertise in DevOps and MLOps for developing Generative AI solutions
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
