Senior Dotmatics Developer

About Excelra

Excelra Knowledge Solutions Private Limited is a prominent data science and informatics company serving the global life sciences sector. Established in 2016, Excelra partners with 16 leading pharmaceutical companies and over 135 global collaborators, supported by an expert team of more than 1,000 domain specialists. Their mission is to harness data potential and generate insights that aid life science companies in enhancing patient outcomes. Their Lab Informatics division offers comprehensive digital transformation services, including ELN and LIMS implementation, workflow optimization, integration, and managed services aimed at streamlining R&D operations and accelerating research. The organization boasts a Great Place to Work certification.

Role Overview

The position calls for an experienced Senior Developer with extensive hands-on expertise in Dotmatics. The role involves collaborating with global biopharma clients to transform scientific workflows into reliable Dotmatics solutions by handling requirements analysis, configuration, customization, integrations, upgrades, and go-live processes. Experience with Benchling or other ELN/LIMS platforms is considered a significant advantage. This role is client-facing and delivery-driven, situated within the Scientific Informatics practice.

Key Duties

• Design, configure, and implement Dotmatics solutions that address clients’ scientific and business workflow needs.
• Provide support for related ELN/LIMS platforms like Benchling, Revvity Signals, LabVantage, and LabWare as needed by client projects.
• Gather and analyze requirements from scientists, laboratory managers, and IT personnel, turning those requirements into functional and technical designs.
• Create customizations, scripts, and extensions using platform-specific toolkits and APIs such as Dotmatics scripting and REST APIs, Benchling API/Apps.
• Develop and maintain integrations with laboratory instruments and enterprise systems including SAP, CDS, SDMS, registration systems, and data lakes.
• Lead data migration efforts from legacy systems to target ELN/LIMS platforms.
• Support validation activities for computer systems and produce documentation compliant with GxP, GAMP 5, and 21 CFR Part 11 standards.
• Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and help establish best practices, accelerators, and reusable assets within the Lab Informatics team.
• Engage directly with client teams across different time zones providing status updates and demonstrations to stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, bioinformatics, biotechnology, chemistry, or a related field.
• 8 to 10 years overall professional experience, including a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience configuring, customizing, and deploying Dotmatics in client or enterprise settings.
• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages relevant to the platform such as Python, Java, Groovy, JavaScript/TypeScript, or LIMS Basic.
• Strong practical knowledge with REST APIs, JSON/XML, and integration techniques for laboratory and enterprise systems.
• Good understanding of laboratory workflows in research and development or quality control environments, including sample management, test execution, result documentation, stability studies, batch release, and research data capture.
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and solid SQL skills.
• Excellent communication abilities and a proven track record of directly collaborating with scientists and global client stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Benchling platform, including configuration, Benchling Apps, or API integrations alongside Dotmatics.
• Familiarity with other ELN/LIMS platforms such as Revvity Signals, LabVantage, LabWare, or related systems including SDMS, CDS (Empower, Chromeleon), or scientific data platforms.
• Cloud experience with providers like AWS or Azure, including deployment and DevOps practices for SaaS or hosted lab solutions.
• Relevant certifications or vendor training in Dotmatics or Benchling ecosystems.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies, tools like Jira and Confluence, and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.
• Previous consulting or service delivery experience in life sciences is an asset.

Benefits

• Opportunity to collaborate with 16 of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies on advanced laboratory digitalization projects.
• Dynamic, fast-growing company culture, free from legacy constraints and full of enthusiastic and talented professionals.
• Continual learning opportunities spanning platforms, cloud technologies, and data science with clear advancement paths towards architecture and practice leadership roles.
• Certified Great Place to Work environment offering competitive salary and benefits.