Chemistry Informatics Lead — ELN Platform Expert

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to head chemistry-focused ELN and data management solutions across discovery and development stages. You will translate workflows into scalable platform capabilities, lead ELN configuration, and own end-to-end requirements, testing, deployment and support.

The ideal candidate will have strong medicinal chemistry knowledge and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus proficiency in Python, SQL and REST APIs to

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.
• 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 head chemistry-focused ELN and data management solutions across discovery and development stages. You will translate workflows into scalable platform capabilities, lead ELN configuration, and own end-to-end requirements, testing, deployment and support.

The ideal candidate will have strong medicinal chemistry knowledge and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus proficiency in Python, SQL and REST APIs to