Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive.
Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
We are seeking a Scientific Technical Solutions Lead to join the team developing scientific Solutions built on Dotmatics LUMA, a next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation for multimodal scientific discovery. As a Scientific technical lead on the team, you will work closely with other Solution Architects, product management, engineering teams, and external stakeholders to deliver exceptional product capabilities via Luma Solutions.
Your focus will be on designing and implementing the configuration necessary to realise product vision and on ensuring that this configuration follows best practices within the Life Sciences and Chemical & Material space.
This role offers the opportunity to shape a foundational part of the modern lab—helping scientists work faster, smarter, and with greater impact.
In this role you will get to:
- Design configuration: Collaborate with Product to determine application structure, define entity/data models, specify task workflows (Scientific Workflows) , and define desired data visualization experiences
- Develop configuration: Create registration entities, data flows, task templates, data visualization experiences, and other configurations in support of developing Luma Solutions that will be delivered as part of the product
- Test and troubleshoot configuration: Perform in-team testing of configuration and assist is handing test cases to the QA group for release testing. Troubleshoot configuration to understand why it is not producing desired results.
- Contribute to documentation: Write draft documentation of configuration and workflows and collaborate with the Documentation team to develop final customer-facing documentation
- Train internal and external users: Train members of other Dotmatics teams and early customers on how to use Luma Solutions configuration and the workflows it supports
- Provide input into new product features: Use new product features in Luma Solutions and provide feedback on the experience, participate in user experience testing, and provide input to the Product team about features that will enable the best Solutions
- Champion quality and best practices: Actively participate in the development of best practices for Luma configuration, and ensure these best practices are followed in the development of Luma Solutions
We are looking for people who have 10+ years of hands-on experience building and delivering informatics solutions for Life Sciences customers. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's or advanced degree in Life Sciences, Data Science, Chemistry, Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related technical discipline — and brings a genuine passion for quality and continuous improvement, fueled by a drive to solve problems that truly matter.
The key skills we are looking for:
- Life Science Industry experience, either as a Scientific Solution Architect, technical application Scientist or a Scientist who has been heavily involved with designing products or technical applications
- Advanced expertise in data modeling, with a proven ability to design robust, scalable data structures
- Expert-level proficiency in configuring low-code platforms and designing end-to-end workflows
- Demonstrated success delivering scientific data platforms or tools spanning data modeling, ETL, APIs, and BI/reporting
- Expert-level SQL skills, with strong working knowledge of Python and JSON
- Deep experience integrating tools and modules to architect complete, cohesive solutions
- Strong analytical ability to translate product requirements into precise technical configuration designs
- Excellent communication skills — able to distill complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels
- Experience running and/or supporting scientific workflows in a production or research environment
You may also have
- Experience running scientific test cases
- Understanding of software testing and or SDLC
- Working knowledge of Databricks
- Drug Discovery or Biotechnology industries or Other scientific Industries
Total Rewards
Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.
Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
Other Total Rewards Offered
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)
This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
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