Chemistry Informatics Platform Lead (ELN & Data)

Cognizant; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate blends chemistry domain expertise with hands-on ELN experience and strong cross-functional leadership for end-to-end platform delivery.

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.

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 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 basic ELN end-user responsibilities, including roadmap planning and continuous platform improvement.

Skills

Medicinal chemistry

ELN platform experience

Leadership

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional coordination

Platform leadership

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Chemistry/LS/CS/Engineering

Tools

Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Data integration

Job description

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

The ideal candidate blends chemistry domain expertise with hands-on ELN experience and strong cross-functional leadership for end-to-end platform delivery.