Charles River Laboratories Tech Stack
Contract research organization for preclinical drug development and safety testing
Charles River operates a sprawling contract research business supporting early-stage drug discovery and safety validation, with 10,000+ employees across research, operations, and manufacturing. The tech stack reveals a major cloud migration underway—heavy Azure + AWS adoption, active Databricks implementations, and systematic replacement of legacy Windows-era frameworks (WinForms, Java Swing, WCF)—paired with hiring acceleration across research (282 roles) and data engineering (26 roles). This pattern suggests simultaneous execution on two fronts: modernizing internal systems while scaling the data infrastructure needed to accelerate throughput in viral clearance, toxicology, and GLP-compliant studies.
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What Charles River Laboratories Is Building
◆Challenges
- Operational cost efficiencies
- Modernizing legacy systems
- Accelerating drug discovery
- Ensuring data security compliance
- Maintaining glp compliance
- Ensuring compliance with osha and epa regulations
- Reducing costs
- Streamlining operations
- Cost inefficiencies
- Automating toxicology study models
▲Active Projects
- Territory management plan
- Legacy system modernization
- Advanced databricks implementations
- Viral clearance studies
- Semantic models and power bi reporting
- Enterprise data platform architecture
- Automating data science pipelines
- Implementation of laboratory robotics
- Crl project assessment program
- Automation of results process for uplc-uv and gc-fid
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Head of CSD, Team Lead, Business Development Director, Business Optimisation Lead, Study Director
