Consultant, Scientific and Laboratory Informatics

Accenture; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Laboratory Informatics consultant to redesign scientific user experiences and enable AI-enabled transformation in Life Sciences. You will work on digital laboratory platforms including LIMS, ELN, CDS, and SDMS, advising on data architectures and cloud solutions while integrating GenAI capabilities.

You'll collaborate with client leaders to shape transformation roadmaps, travel up to 50% to client sites, and contribute to thought leadership and practical delivery across R&D and

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in scientific and laboratory informatics in R&D or QC manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Science, Computer Science, or Engineering to qualify for this role.

Responsibilities

• Apply management consulting and design-thinking techniques to redesign the scientific user experience.
• Shape transformation visions, focus areas, and journeys from current to future enterprise states.
• Reimagine and execute on how AI reshapes the laboratory landscape.
• Redesign processes and operating models for data-driven business cases.
• Provide viewpoints on lab informatics solutions and technology strengths/weaknesses.
• Advise on data and system architectures for laboratory industry solutions.
• Create digital laboratory thought leadership for Life Sciences clients.
• Collaborate with client leaders to gain alignment on recommended solutions.

Skills

Management consulting

Design thinking

Laboratory informatics

AI / GenAI

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Laboratory Science / Life Science or Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Benchling

Revvity Signals

Dotmatics

LabVantage

LabWare

Scitara

TetraScience

Job description

Overview

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.

Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at www.accenture.com .

Our Laboratory Reinvention practice is where scientific and laboratory innovation meets leading-edge technology. We help our clients envision and achieve Digital and AI Laboratory Transformation through co-creation and application of digital technologies, revolutionizing scientific and laboratory processes. Our people have a combination of scientific and laboratory informatics expertise, tied with strategic and business consulting experience, and industry platforms knowledge. We provide an innovative approach and global scale s across a variety of industries.

We leverage digital technologies such as GenAI and Agentic SI solutions, automation, Internet of Things, analytics, and cloud, in combination with a fundamental redesign of the scientific user experience to help our clients better capture, manage, integrate, and analyze complex scientific data. We help improve the research, development, and manufacturing of new products, improve quality, ensure compliance, reduce time to market and improve operational efficiency.

As a member of our team, you will be exposed to the cutting-edge technologies and processes that many leading companies and government agencies utilize.

What would you do?

• Apply management consulting and design-thinking techniques as you work on the fundamental redesign of the scientific user experience
• Help shape client’s transformation vision, focus areas, and journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment
• Reimagine, plan and execute on how AI reshapes the laboratory landscape
• Redesign processes and operating models to enable new ways of working with data-driven business cases
• Provide point-of-view on laboratory and scientific informatics solutions and strengths and weaknesses of various technology solutions.
• Advise on data and system architectures as they relate to industry solutions for the laboratory
• Create digital laboratory thought leadership for clients across Life Sciences.
• Collaborate with client leaders to gain alignment on recommended solutions.
• Oversee, design, and implement digital solutions such as Agentic Lab Capabilities, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), Chromatography Data Systems (CDS), Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS), Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud
• Help clients better capture, handle, integrate and analyze complex scientific data
• Travel – candidates must be willing to travel up to 50% to client locations

Basic Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of experience working in the field of scientific and laboratory informatics, within R&D and/or QC Manufacturing spaces
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Laboratory Science / Life Science (e.g., Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biology, Microbiology) or Computer Science or Engineering (e.g., Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering)

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in consulting
• Experience working in or with life sciences R&D, QC, or IT
• Implementation experience with any of the following laboratory solutions: Benchling, Revvity Signals, Dotmatics, LabVantage, LabWare, Scitara, TetraScience
• Strong interpersonal skills and both verbal and written communication skills

Growth Opportunities

• Accessing and applying capable AI tools to make all facets of work faster and smarter
• On the job learning: creating experiments with new technologies, products and across team partnerships
• Being part of a forward-thinking community committed to training on and the adoption of latest methodologies such as design thinking and agile working
• Opportunities to be a face of Accenture at industry forums, conferences, and through thought leadership

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