Chemistry Informatics Lead ELN Platform & Data Stewardship

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management initiatives across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry functions. You will translate complex lab workflows into scalable platform capabilities and own requirements, configuration, testing, deployment, and support.

The ideal candidate has strong chemistry domain knowledge and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus platform leadership and

Qualifications

• Strong domain experience in medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, process chemistry, chemical development, or discovery research.
• Hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or comparable scientific informatics platforms.
• Strong understanding of experiment 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.
• Experience with Signals Notebook, BIOVIA ELN, IDBS, Benchling, PerkinElmer ELN, or similar platforms is preferred.
• Familiarity with Python, SQL, REST APIs, scientific data integrations, platform migrations, and reporting is desirable.
• Experience supporting pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, laboratory informatics, or regulated research environments is preferred.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery for chemistry experiments, reactions, compounds, samples, inventory, analytical results, and scientific reporting.
• 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, 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 associated with chemistry-focused ELN platforms.
• Coordinate chemists, scientific informatics teams, validation, security, infrastructure, product owners, and technology 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 standard ELN end-user support, including roadmap planning and continuous platform improvement.

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management initiatives across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry functions. You will translate complex lab workflows into scalable platform capabilities and own requirements, configuration, testing, deployment, and support.

The ideal candidate has strong chemistry domain knowledge and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus platform leadership and