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# Primary Systems Analyst

- **Company:** Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
- **Location:** Burlington, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $70,000.0 - $118,750.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Job Scheduling, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), Remote Infrastructure Management, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Scripting, System Availability, Database Optimization, Information Technology, Network Server, User Administration, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/cc6678ea-6273-4beb-821d-8ff277663c79

## About the Role

* Experience with Financial Services Investment Management, Trading or related systems highly preferable ( e.g. Charles River IMS)
 * Proven ability to partner with various internal departments to deliver superior customer service.
 * Experience in MS SQL Server, Oracle, and/or Sybase database configuration, operations, and basic administration functions.
 * Any experience with the following is preferred: servers, operating systems, networks, scripting, XML, programming languages, job scheduling software, system monitoring software and disaster recovery/business continuity.
 * Excellent customer service skills, technical troubleshooting skills, and interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
 * Bachelor's degree and 0-2 years experience in a technical or analytical discipline such as Computer Science, IT, Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science, Economics, Math or Statistics preferred.

## Description

This role will involve working closely with Clients, providing expert level remote management, administration and support for Client production Charles River IMS solutions, including:

 * Client assistance in optimal use of the system
 * User administration/privileges
 * Parameter configuration changes
 * System availability
 * Application and database performance tuning
 * Daily operational processing monitoring and support
 * Charles River IMS and database software patches
 * Charles River IMS version upgrades
 * Assistance with problem support and resolution
 * Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery assistance
 * Working with Charles River colleagues to smoothly transition new Clients to production operation.
 * Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
 * Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
 * Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.
 * The role will involve periodic out of hours support and/or weekend work.
 * Occasional travel to customer sites may be required for planning and review meetings.