Director, API & Integration Platform

Director, API & Integration Platform Req ID #:  87493 Location: 

Wilmington, MA, US, 01887 US Tranent, GB, EH33 2NE Horsham, PA, US, 19044 Raleigh, NC, US, 27610 Charleston, SC, US, 29407 Mattawan, MI, US, 49071 Spencerville, OH, US, 45887 Ashland, OH, US, 44805 Saffron Walden, GB, CB10 1XL 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 The Dir. API & Integration Platform leads the team that is responsible for the design, development and operation of the API and Integration platforms in use across the company. They create platform roadmaps and define the strategic vision for their team driven by the overall vision for the use of APIs. They have a deep understanding of API and system integration practices and build close relationships with key IT and business stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with the company’s overall digital strategy. The Dir. API & Integration Platform manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building and managing strategic partnership across the different teams. They work closely within their team using Agile practices to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new developments when necessary.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Attain a strong understanding of business priorities and API needs

• Work with IT and business stakeholders to determine how APIs can enhance business capabilities and advance the company’s digital strategy

• Define strategic vision and roadmaps for API and system integration platforms

• Manage and prioritize a backlog of work using Agile practices, and coordinates with API engineers and development teams to develop new API capabilities

• Coordinate API releases to ensure high-quality and timely delivery

• Act as an API subject matter expert, ensuring APIs are used effectively

• Serve as the point of contact for customers and internal stakeholders for questions regarding API use, optimization, and adoption

• Team personnel management activities such as: work scheduling, personnel actions (hiring, promotions, transfers, etc.), training and development, providing regular direction and feedback on performance, disciplinary actions and preparing and delivering annual performance and salary reviews.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in computer science or related discipline.

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years related experience in IT, with 4+ years in a software development or API technology design, implementation and delivery role.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a management role.

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.

• Certification/Licensure: IT Certifications that demonstrate technical ability desirable.

• Must have strong interpersonal skills, specifically in leadership, persuasion and communication across a multi-national organization.

• Proven knowledge of API and integration platforms, concepts, practices, and procedures.

• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business

• Experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up, etc.)

• Deep experience of leading teams in an Agile setting

• Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders

• Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress

• Skills/knowledge of technologies used in the building of APIs:

o Backend development languages and frameworks (C#, .NET, JS, NodeJS, etc.)

o Writing and utilizing autonomous web services, microservices, RESTful APIs

o Performance tuning largescale apps

o Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores

o Experience integrating with JavaScript frameworks, such as React, Angular JS, etc is a plus

o Ability to write effective unit, integration, and API tests.

o Knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation and provisioning tools is a plus.

• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive new and innovative ideas – loves and embraces change

• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust

• Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same

• Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow

• Over three years of product management experience

• Over three years of software development experience

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience building, consuming, and supporting APIs

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 17,000 employees within 90 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. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.

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 ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.

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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