Chemistry ELN Platform Lead & Scientific Informatics

Cognizant

Foster City (CA)

On-site

USD 132,000 - 155,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management across discovery and chemistry functions. You will partner with scientists, informatics specialists, and technology stakeholders to translate workflows into scalable platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate has strong chemistry domain expertise and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, providing leadership from requirements through deployment and support.

Qualifications

Experience in medicinal, synthetic, or process chemistry discovery research.
Experience gathering requirements and configuring scientific informatics workflows.
Leadership of scientific informatics platforms beyond end-user support.
Familiarity with Python, SQL, and REST APIs.
Experience with regulated pharmaceutical R&D environments is desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead requirements discovery for chemistry experiments, reactions, compounds, samples, inventory management, and scientific reporting processes.
Translate medicinal, synthetic, process, and discovery chemistry workflows into user stories, functional specifications, data mappings, and acceptance criteria.
Provide senior oversight for ELN configuration, workflow design, platform enhancements, testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and user support.
Design and optimize workflows supporting experiment capture, reaction management, chemical structures, stoichiometry calculations, compound registration, and inventory tracking.
Guide integrations with compound registration systems, inventory platforms, assay systems, analytical applications, laboratory instruments, and downstream data repositories.
Support scientific data governance, traceability, metadata management, reporting, and data quality initiatives.
Coordinate cross-functional teams including chemists, informatics specialists, validation teams, infrastructure, security, and product/vendor partners.
Develop and maintain SOPs, training materials, test evidence, release notes, operational procedures, and platform documentation.
Support platform modernization, migration, reporting, integration, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Provide technical and functional leadership to ensure ELN platforms effectively support chemistry research and development objectives.