Data Engineer

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

Charles River Laboratories: Data Engineer

There’s never been a more exciting time to be on the Enterprise Data Analytics team at Charles River Labs We are on a mission to make the Enterprise Data Analytics team be the backbone of today’s business, as data-driven decision-making enables business leaders to make informed choices quickly to boost revenue, improve productivity, and stay a step ahead of the market. We have already launched our own Enterprise Data Hub, the digital backbone of this company, and we need more engineers in the data analytics discipline who are forward thinking, self-guided and innovative to continue to build out the hub across our lines of business, integrating all of our data, mastering data and focusing on data quality to fundamentally shift the way Charles River operates through data science and advanced analytics.

You will be joining a team with an unyielding dedication to the company purpose; Together We Create Healthier Lives. This laser focus on the patient makes the boarder Global Technology Team so exciting. As we look to our company’s future, we are embarking on a reimagination of how we do business through a Digital Journey. Our Digital Journey is about sustaining and advancing our position to unlock our next horizon of growth and become a leading ‘digitally-powered’ CRO enabling our clients to deliver innovative, safe, and effective treatments to patients as quickly and effectively as possible. In the process, we want to continue to be at the forefront of the drug development and discovery process, ultimately reducing the early-stage drug development timeline by a full year. Our collective focus over the coming, multi-year journey is to enable this extraordinary group of people - our 18,000 colleagues - to execute and achieve our ambitious business goals. We are taking Charles River to a place where Enterprise Data Analytics team will be applying the techniques of data management, data engineering, and strategy development, as well as the use of analytics techniques that range from forecasting and simulation to linear programming and optimization and we want you to join us.

Job Qualifications

Essential Qualifications / Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline, Master’s Degree preferred 
• 5+ years of ETL design, development, and performance tuning on Microsoft Stack in a multi-dimensional Data Warehousing environment
• 5+ years of advanced SQL Programming: PL/SQL, T-SQL
• 3+ years of Enterprise Data & Analytics solution architecture
• 2+ years of strong and extensive hands-on experience in Azure, preferably data heavy / analytics applications leveraging relational and NoSQL databases
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Databricks, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure App Service, and Azure functions. 
• 2+ years of experience in defining and enabling data security standards for encryption, auditing, and monitoring. 
• Strong analytical abilities and a strong intellectual curiosity 

Preferred Skills:
• 2+ years of experience with Big Data Technologies such as: Hadoop, Sqoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Pyspark, Python, Scala, or Pig 
• 2+ years of experience with Big Data Management (BDM) for relational and non-relational data (formats like json, xml, Avro, parquet, copybook, etc.) 
• 2+ years of experience with setting up and operating data pipelines using Python or SQL
• Knowledge of Dev-Ops processes (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code. 
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Event Hubs, Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. 
• Experience working in data and analytics in the Life Sciences industry

Compensation Data

The pay range for this position is $125K - $160K USD. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

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 over 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 supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.