Director, Data Engineering & Platforms

Job Overview

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