Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At IDBS, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
At IDBS, we are at the cutting edge of providing innovative software solutions and services that empower scientists and researchers to accelerate their discoveries by helping them design, execute and orchestrate processes, manage, contextualize and structure their data and gain valuable insights throughout the drug lifecycle, from R&D through manufacturing. We work with 80% of the top 20 global BioPharma companies*. Our customers engage in groundbreaking work, from pioneering biological research to developing new therapies and medicines. Join us at IDBS to continuously grow and make a real impact, working alongside passionate colleagues who care deeply about our mission and each other.
*Source: Exploring the top 20 biopharma companies Q1 2024 market cap growths | TechTarget
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Technical Consultant – Scientific Informatics will serve as the technical authority and solution owner across customer engagements. In this role, you will design and deliver end-to-end architectures that integrate IDBS platforms into complex life sciences ecosystems, ensuring scalability, compliance, and long-term customer success.
You will act as the key technical partner to customer IT, data, and scientific stakeholders—translating scientific workflows and business requirements into scalable SaaS-based architectures and integration strategies.
This position reports to the Manager, Professional Services and is part of the European Professional Services team. This role will be based out of IDBS's head office in Woking, UK and will support global projects.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Own end-to-end technical architecture, define and design scalable, secure, and compliant architectures aligning to GxP requirements across IDBS platforms, integrations, and customer environments, while ensuring alignment with enterprise IT strategy and long-term success.
- Lead integration and data architecture, design and govern integrations between IDBS platforms and enterprise systems also define API strategies, event flows, data pipelines, and governance models that ensure data integrity and enable analytics, AI/ML, and seamless interoperability with enterprise systems while contributing to best practices, reusable architecture patterns, and integration frameworks for IDBS products.
- Drive technical design decisions, balancing configuration vs. customization, scalability vs cost vs time-to-value, while aligning solutions with cloud strategies, security frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership during delivery, guiding teams on complex integrations, resolving technical challenges, mitigating risks, and acting as the escalation point for architectural issues while leading architecture discussions with enterprise architects and senior stakeholders
- Enable digital transformation and business value, lead customer transformation from on-premises to SaaS-based architectures reducing technical debt, and partnering across pre-sales and delivery to ensure successful, scalable customer outcomes by contributing to SOW, estimations.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Consulting mindset & stakeholder engagement: Strong problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and design tailored solutions in complex customer environments
- Enterprise architecture & integration expertise (4–6+ years): Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, high-performing architectures that integrate SaaS platforms into complex customer environments, ideally with exposure to scientific informatics ecosystems (LIMS, ELN, SDMS, CDS, data platforms).
- Data architecture & integrity: Deep understanding of data architecture, data modeling, governance, and data integrity principles to ensure reliable, compliant data flows across systems.
- SaaS solution design & trade-offs: Experience designing scalable SaaS solutions and making informed trade-offs (configuration vs customization, scalability vs cost) while working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and customer teams.
- End-to-end delivery of complex integrations & customer transformation:Demonstrated success delivering complex integrations with high reliability and leading customers through modernization (legacy → SaaS), driving measurable improvements in workflows, data accessibility, and business outcomes.
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 20% travel (domestically and internationally)
It would be a key differentiator you also possess previous experience in:
- Life sciences domain expertise: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, or related field; strong understanding of scientific workflows and regulatory environments.
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This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
Skills Required
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- 4-6+ years in enterprise architecture & integration expertise
- Deep understanding of data architecture and governance
- Experience designing scalable SaaS solutions
- Successful delivery of complex integrations and customer transformation
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field (preferred)
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