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Senior Application Scientist

DotmaticsUnited StatesRemote

Dotmatics is a leader in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making. Its enterprise R&D platform and scientists’ favourite applications drive efficiency and accelerate innovation. More than 2 million scientists and 10,000 customers trust Dotmatics to help them create a healthier, cleaner, safer world.
Dotmatics is a global team of more than 800 team mates dedicated to supporting its customers in over 180 countries. The company is headquartered in Boston, with teams located around the world.Dotmatics is backed by Insight Partners, a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software scaleup companies. Learn more about Dotmatics, its platform, and applications including Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express and LabArchives athttps://dotmatics.com.

Come join us!


As an evolving, global business at the cutting edge of scientific innovation, we offer curious, bright minds from around the world the chance to make immediate impact. We offer meaningful benefits in each market, generous pension/retirement savings plans, equity and a collaborative, remote-friendly work environment centred around core key behaviours and high levels of integrity.

What do we need 


As the Senior Application Scientist your primary role is to configure & support the implementation of Dotmatics solutions in to complex laboratory, scientific research or scientific development environments .You will work closely with cross functional teams such project management teams & solution architects, product teams & customers, to understand their needs, analyse their data environment, assist in design and implementation of our solutions and aid in integration with their data systems. You will also be responsible for demonstrations and training, technical support, and business development where appropriate.Working within our Professional Services team, the Senior Application Scientist will act as a partner to the customer to solve the challenging business needs of the customer with the Dotmatics SaaS products. 

In this role you will get to


  • Lead in discovery activities to identify key systems in scope (customer environment)  for data integration
  • Work along side Principal Application Scientists & our customer to help Identify optimal sourcing and integration strategy ensuring clarity of data requirements in complex laboratory settings
  • Provide guidance and best practices on data sourcing for the creation of sustainable integrations and methods utilizing standard Data Ingestion technologies and architectural principles
  • Data integration: Planning, coordinating, and supervising the integration of data from various sources 
  • Data flow monitoring: Monitoring the flow of data between databases, servers, and cloud services 
  • Data architecture: Identifying and implementing the best data integration (DI) architecture for the organization
  • Conduct technical peer reviews
  • Provide oversight and governance on projects where there are parallel activities
  • Evaluate user requirements, & provide estimates
  • Train Customers on how to use Dotmatics configured solutions
  • Communicate and collaborate among cross-functional teams in a multinational environment (Project Managers, Developers, Architects)

We are looking for people who have 8 years + experience deploying SaaS solutions into the Life science industry/end user environments.  Ideally you will hold a PhD or comparable working experience in Data Science, Bioinformatics or similar scientific/technical field.The key skills we are looking for: 

  • Advanced experience in consulting customers (typical within the Scientific/Life Science community), with proven experience of SaaS Solution implementations
  • Data integration: Planning, coordinating, and leading teams with the integration of data from various source 
  • The ability to clearly document key business requirements
  • Strong ability to focus on a data first architecture and data scientist technology (Databricks, Snowflake) and data warehouse/lake technologies
  • Programming or scripting language working with scientific data (Python, JavaScript)
  • Working with: lab informatics software, building queries, web technologies and knowledge of file transformations like CSV, XML, XLS, XLSX and XSL and strong configuration management.
  • In depth user expertise in Oracle (SQL) as an enterprise tool
  • Advanced knowledge of  building and deploying  API’s
  • Delivering high quality presentations and training, including the ability to present systems diagramming, UML (Universal mark up language) and ERD (Entity relationship diagrams).
  • The ability to adjust communication style to speak to the audience with the ability to translate Scientific & Technical language in to layman’s terms

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


  • Equity Compensation
  • 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.Starting Base Pay Range $95,613 - $112,486USDResearch 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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