LabWare LIMS Technical Consultant

Cognizant; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; 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 LabWare LIMS Technical Consultant to deliver laboratory informatics solutions for quality, compliance, and operational excellence across pharma and life sciences. You will collaborate with laboratory personnel, quality teams, business stakeholders, and IT to implement, enhance, and support LabWare LIMS in regulated settings.

You will lead requirements, design workshops, and workflow assessments, develop custom LabWare components, and design integrations with SAP, MES, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience, including hands-on LabWare LIMS implementation, configuration, customization, and support.
• Strong functional and technical LabWare LIMS expertise in regulated pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences environments.
• Deep understanding of LabWare LIMS configuration, workflows, sample lifecycle, and lab business processes.
• Experience with LIMS Basic development, calculations, variable properties, and business rules.
• Proven ability to develop subroutines, event triggers, visual workflows, and custom LabWare solutions.
• Hands-on integration of LabWare LIMS with SAP, MES, ERP, laboratory instruments, and external systems.
• Experience with SOAP and REST web services and data parsing for system integration.
• Knowledge of deployment, validation, migration, release management within regulated environments.
• Excellent communication, consulting, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, customize, and support LabWare LIMS solutions to meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Lead requirements gathering, design workshops, and business process assessments with SME input.
• Develop and maintain LabWare components including LIMS Basic scripts, subroutines, event triggers, and calculations.
• Design and support integrations between LabWare LIMS and SAP, MES, ERP platforms, and third-party systems.
• Collaborate with business and IT to optimize laboratory processes and ensure successful project delivery across environments.

Skills

LabWare LIMS

LIMS Basic scripts

Requirements gathering

Solution design

System integration

SOAP/REST

Regulated environments

Communication skills

Tools

SAP

MES

ERP systems

Job description

LabWare LIMS Technical Consultant

About the role

As a LabWare LIMS Technical Consultant , you will make an impact by delivering laboratory informatics solutions that support quality, compliance, and operational excellence across pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations. You will be a valued member of the Life Sciences Technology team and work collaboratively with laboratory personnel, quality teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams to implement, enhance, and support LabWare LIMS solutions within regulated environments.

In this role, you will:

• Design, configure, customize, and support LabWare LIMS solutions to meet business, laboratory, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead requirements gathering, solution design workshops, and business process assessments, providing subject matter expertise on LabWare LIMS capabilities and industry best practices.

• Develop and maintain custom LabWare components including LIMS Basic scripts, subroutines, event triggers, visual workflows, calculations, and custom business logic.

• Design and support integrations between LabWare LIMS and enterprise applications, laboratory instruments, SAP, MES, ERP platforms, and third-party systems.

• Collaborate with business and IT teams to optimize laboratory processes, support system enhancements, and ensure successful project delivery across multiple environments.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring time in a Cognizant or client office as determined by project and business needs. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

• 8+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years of hands-on LabWare LIMS implementation, configuration, customization, and support experience.

• Strong functional and technical expertise with LabWare LIMS in regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences environments.

• Deep understanding of LabWare LIMS configuration, workflows, sample lifecycle management, and laboratory business processes.

• Strong experience with LIMS Basic development, including calculations, variable properties, custom algorithms, and business rule implementation.

• Proven expertise in developing subroutines, event triggers, visual workflows, and custom LabWare solutions.

• Experience configuring analyses, sample plans, products, item codes, and laboratory master data.

• Hands-on experience integrating LabWare LIMS with SAP, MES, ERP platforms, laboratory instruments, and external systems.

• Experience working with SOAP and REST web services, parsing scripts, automated data acquisition, and system integration technologies.

• Knowledge of deployment, migration, validation, release management, and software lifecycle processes within regulated environments.

• Excellent communication, consulting, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

These will help you stand out

• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and mentoring functional and technical consultants.

• Knowledge of laboratory informatics, quality control, quality assurance, and manufacturing operations.

• Experience supporting multiple LabWare environments, including Development, QA, UAT, and Production.

• Familiarity with GxP, FDA, MHRA, and related regulatory compliance requirements.

• Experience performing business process optimization and laboratory digital transformation initiatives.

• Strong understanding of validation methodologies, computerized system validation (CSV), and regulatory inspection readiness.

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until August 21,2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $130,000- $150,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

• 401(k) plan and contributions

• Long-term/Short-term Disability

• Paid Parental Leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.