Key skills
GoSQLRSAPAgileChange Management
About this role
Cognizant is a leading global professional services company that helps clients transform their business. They are seeking a highly skilled LabVantage Consultant (LIMS) responsible for translating business requirements into scalable LabVantage LIMS solutions while enabling standardized digital lab workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Lead requirement-gathering workshops with stakeholders across QC, R&D, and manufacturing labs
- Translate business needs into User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS)
- Analyze current-state laboratory processes and define optimized, future-state LIMS workflows
- Identify process gaps, standardization opportunities, and automation use cases
- Collaborate with architects and LabVantage SMEs to define solution design
- Define and prioritize integration requirements (e.g., instruments, MES, SAP, CDS)
- Support master data design and business rule definition
- Ensure alignment with LabVantage capabilities including sample management, stability, biobanking, and SDMS
- Act as the primary liaison between business users, IT, and delivery teams
- Conduct system demonstrations and gather feedback for continuous improvement
- Drive alignment across global and site teams to ensure harmonized LIMS processes
- Support change management and user adoption initiatives
- Support master data creation, validation, and migration activities
- Work with integration teams on interface requirements and data mapping
- Ensure data integrity and consistency across LIMS and connected systems
- Define business scenarios for SIT, UAT, and validation efforts
- Support validation activities aligned with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, and EU Annex 11
- Assist in defect triage, resolution validation, and business sign-off
- Maintain traceability across URS, FRS, and test cases
- Support go-live planning and remote/multi-site rollout activities
- Assist with user training and SOP alignment
- Provide hypercare support and continuous improvement recommendations
Requirements:
- Proven experience in LIMS implementations (LabVantage strongly preferred)
- Strong understanding of laboratory workflows (sample lifecycle, stability, batch release)
- Experience with ELN/LIMS integration and business analysis artifacts (URS/FRS, process mapping)
- Strong understanding of GxP environments
- Experience with 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and validation processes
- Experience with integrations (REST APIs, middleware, file-based interfaces)
- Familiarity with instrument integration, SDMS, and CDS systems
- Basic knowledge of SQL and data structures
- LabVantage certification or hands-on experience with versions v7/v8
- Experience supporting global LIMS implementations or multi-site harmonization
- Exposure to Agile and/or DevOps delivery models