Chemistry Informatics Lead - ELN & Data Platform

Cognizant; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. The role requires leading platform capabilities from requirements to deployment, with hands-on experience in Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar systems.

The ideal candidate blends deep chemistry domain knowledge with informatics leadership, coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering scalable ELN solutions with data

Qualifications

• Strong domain experience in medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, process chemistry, chemical development, or discovery research.
• Hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or a comparable chemistry-focused ELN or scientific informatics platform.
• Strong understanding of experiment and reaction capture, chemical structures, compound registration, stoichiometry, analytical results, inventory, and scientific data traceability.
• Experience gathering requirements, configuring scientific workflows, conducting functional testing, supporting defect triage, and managing controlled releases.
• Proven ability to provide platform leadership, solution oversight, and stakeholder guidance beyond basic ELN end-user responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery for chemistry experiments, reactions, compounds, samples, inventory, analytical results, and scientific reporting.
• Translate workflows into user stories, functional specifications, data mappings, and acceptance criteria.
• Provide senior oversight for ELN configuration, workflow design, platform enhancements, testing, deployment, defect resolution, and user support.
• Design and optimize experiment and reaction capture, chemical structure management, stoichiometry, compound registration, and data traceability workflows.
• Guide integrations with compound registration, inventory, assay, analytical, laboratory instrument, and downstream scientific data systems.
• Lead migration, data validation, reporting, and integration activities for chemistry-focused ELN platforms.
• Coordinate chemists, scientific informatics teams, validation, security, infrastructure, product owners, and vendors.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, training materials, test evidence, release notes, workflow documentation, and operational procedures.
• Ensure platform enhancements meet scientific, data integrity, security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Provide technical and functional leadership beyond end-user support, including roadmap planning and continuous improvement.

Skills

ELN platforms

Chemistry domain knowledge

Platform leadership

Requirements gathering

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/Doctoral in Chemistry or related

Tools

Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN

Signals Notebook

BIOVIA ELN

IDBS

Benchling

PerkinElmer ELN

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. The role requires leading platform capabilities from requirements to deployment, with hands-on experience in Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar systems.

The ideal candidate blends deep chemistry domain knowledge with informatics leadership, coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering scalable ELN solutions with data