Lead Chemistry Informatics & ELN Platform

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Scientific Informatics Lead to guide chemistry-focused ELN and scientific data management across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. The role blends chemistry domain knowledge with hands-on platform experience to deliver reliable, scalable capabilities.

The candidate will own end-to-end requirements, configuration, testing, deployment, and support, with preference for Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar systems. CDMO and regulated environments are a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong domain experience in medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with chemistry-focused ELN platforms like Dotmatics or equivalents.
• Experience gathering requirements, configuring workflows, testing, and managing releases.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery for chemistry experiments, reactions, compounds, and data.
• Translate workflows into user stories, specs, data mappings and acceptance criteria.
• Provide senior oversight for ELN configuration, testing, deployment, and support.
• Design experiment/reaction capture, structure management, stoichiometry, and data traceability workflows.
• Guide integrations with compound registration, inventory, assay, analytical, and LIMS systems.
• Lead migration, data validation, reporting, and integration activities for ELN platforms.
• Coordinate chemists, informatics teams, validation, security, and vendors.
• Develop SOPs, training materials, test evidence, release notes, and procedures.
• Ensure platform enhancements meet scientific, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership beyond end-user support and contribute to roadmaps.

Skills

Chemistry domain knowledge

Requirements gathering

Platform leadership

ELN configuration

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Stakeholder guidance

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/Doctoral in Chemistry or related field

Tools

Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN

BIOVIA ELN

IDBS

Benchling

PerkinElmer ELN

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Scientific Informatics Lead to guide chemistry-focused ELN and scientific data management across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. The role blends chemistry domain knowledge with hands-on platform experience to deliver reliable, scalable capabilities.

The candidate will own end-to-end requirements, configuration, testing, deployment, and support, with preference for Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar systems. CDMO and regulated environments are a plus.