Scientist II - Laboratory Informatics & VBA Developer - FSP

About the role

We are looking to fill a position as a Scientist II working as a full-time employee of Parexel FSP on short-term assignment onsite at one of our clients located in West Point, PA. This role sits within the DDT (DSCS Digital Technologies) organization and serves as a technical bridge between DDT and the High Throughput Analytics (HTA) group within Vaccines Analytical Research and Development (VARD). The contractor will support a DDT-led initiative to enable data ingestion from HTA workflows into Signals and provide ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement support for HTA's existing suite of VBA-driven workbooks. This is a one-year contract.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain VBA code to support a DDT data ingestion workflow that connects HTA workbooks and processes to the Signals platform.
• Collaborate closely with both DDT and HTA teams to understand existing workbook logic, data structures, and laboratory workflows, and translate those requirements into robust, maintainable VBA solutions.
• Provide ongoing support, debugging, and enhancement of HTA's existing Excel/VBA workbooks used to design experiments, generate robotic liquid handler worklists, ingest raw data, and analyze results.
• Interact with and support Excel workbooks and data analysis workflows tied to robotic liquid handler workflows, including generation of worklists containing liquid handling instructions and downstream data handling.
• Document code changes, workflows, and technical decisions to support long-term maintainability and knowledge transfer.
• Troubleshoot issues in existing workbooks.
• Coordinate priorities and timelines across DDT and HTA stakeholders, balancing dedicated project work with ad hoc support requests.
• Work independently with minimal oversight while keeping both DDT and HTA stakeholders informed of progress and blockers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) coding, including Excel object model, macros, and automation of Excel workbook-based workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to read, understand, and enhance existing codebases written by others.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively between technical (DDT) and scientific/laboratory (HTA) teams.
• Prior professional experience is preferred but not required.
• Experience with additional scripting/programming languages such as Visual Basic Script, Python, R, C++, JavaScript and HTML.
• Familiarity with robotic liquid handling systems, particularly Tecan platforms, or other laboratory automation equipment.
• Experience supporting laboratory informatics tools or E-Notebook platforms such as Revvity Signals.
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated laboratory environment.
• Familiarity with high-throughput experimentation or analytical workflows.

Benefits

• Full benefits
• Sick time
• 401K
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Schedule

Full-time, onsite assignment in West Point, PA; one-year contract.