Senior Chemistry Informatics Lead - ELN & Data Platform

Cognizant; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to guide chemistry-focused ELN and data management solutions across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. You will translate workflows into scalable platform capabilities with end-to-end ownership.

Ideal candidates bring domain chemistry expertise and hands-on ELN platform experience, plus leadership across requirements, validation, and deployments. Cognizant values innovation and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Domain experience in medicinal, synthetic, process chemistry or related discovery research.
• Hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platform.
• Knowledge of chemical structures, stoichiometry, and data traceability.
• Experience gathering requirements, configuring workflows, testing, 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.
• Coordinate chemists, 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

ELN platforms

Requirements gathering

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Data traceability

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Chemistry or Life Sciences

Tools

Dotmatics ELN

Signals Notebook

BIOVIA ELN

IDBS

Benchling

PerkinElmer ELN

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to guide chemistry-focused ELN and data management solutions across discovery, medicinal, synthetic, and process chemistry. You will translate workflows into scalable platform capabilities with end-to-end ownership.

Ideal candidates bring domain chemistry expertise and hands-on ELN platform experience, plus leadership across requirements, validation, and deployments. Cognizant values innovation and cross-functional collaboration.