Lead Chemistry Informatics & ELN Platform

Cognizant; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

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. The role requires translating complex workflows into scalable platform capabilities and end-to-end ownership of requirements, testing, deployment, and support.

The ideal candidate combines chemistry domain knowledge with hands-on experience in Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms and will lead cross-functional

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.

Skills

Medicinal chemistry

Chemical development

Synthetic chemistry

Process chemistry

Discovery research

ELN platform experience

Data governance

Platform leadership

Requirements gathering

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Data integration

Regulated environments

Education

Chemistry/ Life Sciences or related degree

Tools

Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN

Signals Notebook

BIOVIA ELN

IDBS

Benchling

PerkinElmer ELN

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. The role requires translating complex workflows into scalable platform capabilities and end-to-end ownership of requirements, testing, deployment, and support.

The ideal candidate combines chemistry domain knowledge with hands-on experience in Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms and will lead cross-functional