Senior Chemistry Informatics Lead, ELN Platform

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 132,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management across discovery and chemistry functions. This role partners with scientists, informatics specialists, and vendors to translate lab workflows into scalable platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate has chemistry domain expertise and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus lead experience in requirements, configuration, testing, deployment

Qualifications

• Strong domain expertise in medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, process chemistry, chemical development, or discovery research.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery for chemistry experiments, reactions, compounds, samples, inventory management, and scientific reporting processes.
• 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 readiness, defect resolution, and user support.
• Design and optimize workflows supporting experiment capture, reaction management, chemical structures, stoichiometry calculations, compound registration, and inventory tracking.
• Guide integrations with compound registration systems, inventory platforms, assay systems, analytical applications, laboratory instruments, and downstream data repositories.
• Support scientific data governance, traceability, metadata management, reporting, and data quality initiatives.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams including chemists, informatics specialists, validation teams, infrastructure, security, and product/vendor partners.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, training materials, test evidence, release notes, operational procedures, and platform documentation.
• Support platform modernization, migration, reporting, integration, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical and functional leadership to ensure ELN platforms effectively support chemistry research and development objectives.

Skills

Chemistry domain expertise

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Scientific data governance

Leadership in informatics

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree in Chemistry/Pharmacy/Life Sciences/CS/Engineering

Tools

Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN

Signals Notebook

BIOVIA ELN

IDBS

Benchling

PerkinElmer ELN

REST APIs

Job description

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Scientific Informatics Lead to drive chemistry-focused ELN and data management across discovery and chemistry functions. This role partners with scientists, informatics specialists, and vendors to translate lab workflows into scalable platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate has chemistry domain expertise and hands-on experience with Dotmatics Chemistry/ELN or similar platforms, plus lead experience in requirements, configuration, testing, deployment