Data Engineer, Sr. Principal

This senior role leads the strategy, design, and execution of a high integrity commercial data foundation that enables advanced analytics, AI, and process mining solutions across the enterprise. The Sr Principal Data Engineer drives the data and platform architecture required to support enterprise scale AI, with a strong focus on data quality governance.

Responsibilities

Lead commercial data quality & governance, defining rules, frameworks, and MDM standards ensuring trusted data across Salesforce, SAP, Marketo, Celonis, PowerBI, and other commercial systems.

Own strategy for commercial data quality measurement, audit tooling, and master data validation frameworks.

Define and govern enterprise standards for commercial data pipelines, model lifecycle management, CI/CD for data/AI workloads, and scalable MLOps frameworks.

Oversee engineering of Celonis data models, transformations, and Action Flows.

Drive commercial excellence via process mining, real-time pipeline visibility, and automation.

Mentor and scale engineering and data science team members, defining delivery standards and cross-functional collaboration.

Advise leadership on data strategy, sequencing, and platform readiness for AI, automations and predictive analytics.

Qualifications

12+ years in computational science, commercial data engineering, AI platform architecture, process mining, or MLOps leadership.

Expertise in Celonis, Salesforce, Python, SQL.

Strong background in data engineering, data quality, MDM, governance, and DevOps/MLOps frameworks.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) and distributed data systems.

Results oriented mentality with a track record of solving problems and delivering ahead of schedule.

Experience completing projects across people, process, data, and technology in complex global organizations.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field; Master’s Degree preferred.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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