Senior Laboratory Informatics Implementation Lead

Senior Laboratory Informatics Implementation Lead

Our client is seeking a senior laboratory informatics professional to lead the implementation of a new digital laboratory ecosystem. This is a high-impact opportunity for an experienced LIMS, ELN, and SDMS subject matter expert who can translate laboratory workflows into practical technology solutions and guide a cross-functional implementation from initial strategy through deployment. The successful candidate will partner with laboratory scientists, business stakeholders, IT, quality, validation teams, and software vendors to define requirements, configure systems, support testing, and deliver a compliant, user-focused solution.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of laboratory operations, technology, and regulated life sciences environments.

Industry: Life Sciences

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Work Arrangement: Onsite four days per week

• The ideal candidate is a hands-on laboratory informatics leader who can move comfortably between scientific users, technical teams, quality and validation groups, and external vendors.
• They are highly organized, solutions-oriented, and capable of bringing structure to a complex implementation while keeping the end user and regulatory requirements at the center of the project.

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of LIMS, ELN, SDMS, and related laboratory applications.
• Serve as the primary laboratory informatics subject matter expert and internal point of contact for the implementation.
• Partner with laboratory, scientific, quality, IT, and business stakeholders to understand workflows, identify pain points, and define future-state processes.
• Coordinate with software vendors and implementation partners to evaluate functionality, resolve questions, and maintain project alignment.
• Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, technical, and client-specific configuration requirements.
• Translate laboratory workflows and user needs into scalable system designs and configuration specifications.
• Lead or support system configuration, integrations, data migration, workflow development, and application deployment.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, process maps, configuration records, and other implementation deliverables.
• Coordinate requirements reviews, design sessions, testing activities, and user acceptance testing.
• Partner with the validation and quality teams to plan and complete GxP computer system validation activities.
• Support the development and review of validation deliverables, including user requirements, functional specifications, risk assessments, test scripts, traceability documentation, deviations, and validation reports.
• Assist with change control, issue management, remediation, and inspection readiness activities.
• Support user training, standard operating procedures, business process updates, and change management.
• Provide post-deployment support and help establish appropriate system governance, administration, and continuous improvement practices.

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• Significant experience implementing, configuring, administering, or supporting LIMS, ELN, SDMS, or related laboratory informatics platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to a new laboratory systems implementation.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating laboratory business processes into system functionality and configuration requirements.
• Experience coordinating with laboratory users, IT teams, software vendors, and implementation partners.
• Hands-on understanding of laboratory workflows, data capture, sample management, scientific data, and system integrations.
• Experience with GxP-regulated environments and computer system validation.
• Knowledge of change control, risk-based validation, data integrity, and applicable FDA or international regulatory expectations.
• Strong project coordination, technical documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area four days per week.

• Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, or other regulated laboratory environments.
• Experience with multiple laboratory informatics platforms, such as Lab Ware, Benchling, Tetra Science, Scitara, Signals, or comparable systems.
• Experience with instrument…