Senior 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

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.

Note: It’s a fully remote home-based role for professionally qualified and experienced candidates based in India, who are willing and open to work UK shifts.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline (Master’s degree preferred)
• 7+ years of experience in ETL design, development, and performance tuning using the Microsoft BI Stack in a multi-dimensional data warehousing environment.
• 7+ years of advanced SQL programming expertise (PL/SQL, T-SQL)
• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Data & Analytics solution architecture
• 3+ years of experience in Python Programming
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure, especially for data-heavy/analytics applications leveraging relational and NoSQL databases, Data Warehousing, and Big Data solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with key Azure services: Azure Data Factory, Data Lake Gen2, Analysis Services, Databricks, Blob Storage, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, App Service, Logic Apps, and Functions
• 2+ years of experience designing data models aligning with business requirements and analytics needs.
  
  

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 managing both relational and non-relational data using Big Data Management (BDM) techniques (formats like JSON, XML, Avro, Parquet, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience setting up and operating data pipelines using Python or SQL
• Familiarity with DevOps processes (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality tools
• Experience developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot
• Familiarity with stream-processing systems (e.g., Event Hubs, Storm, Spark-Streaming)
• Experience with API integrations (RESTful, SOAP) for both internal and external systems to enhance data flow and automation.
• Experience in data and analytics within the Life Sciences industry is a plus.
  
  

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.

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