Sr Principal Enterprise Architect

Sr Principal Enterprise Architect

Req # 26205. Job Family: BT - Business Technology.

Location:

US-MA-Milford. Pay Range: USD $ - $.

Waters is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise wide architectural leadership during a pivotal period of transformation. This role is responsible for shaping Waters' longterm technology direction while playing a critical leadership role in the integration of BD businesses, platforms, and data into the Waters ecosystem.

As a senior individual contributor with broad influence, the Principal Enterprise Architect will operate at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution - guiding complex architectural decisions, enabling large scale integration programs, and ensuring that nearterm transformation choices support longterm scalability, resilience, and value creation.

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Define, evolve, and govern Waters' enterprise architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, and security.
• Translate business strategy into actionable target state architectures and multiyear roadmaps.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders on complex tradeoffs involving cost, speed, risk, and scalability.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures to drive consistency and reuse across the enterprise.

BD Integration Leadership

• Act as the enterprise architecture authority for the BD Integration program, ensuring alignment with Waters' strategic and technical direction.
• Guide architectural decisions across ERP, commercial platforms, data, integration layers, and infrastructure.
• Lead architectural input into master data strategy, system rationalization, integration patterns, and TSA exit planning.
• Ensure reuse of Waters' platforms, patterns, and standards while avoiding unnecessary duplication of legacy BD environments.
• Provide architectural governance across cross‑functional work streams, managing dependencies, sequencing, and risk throughout the integration lifecycle.

Technology Strategy & Enablement

• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns to support innovation, efficiency, and future growth.
• Develop and maintain enterprise‑level architecture artifacts, including capability models, reference architectures, and standards repositories.
• Mentor and influence architects, engineers, and technical leaders, raising architectural maturity across the organization.
• Enable faster, higher quality decision making by bringing structure, clarity, and enterprise perspective to complex initiatives.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required;
  Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline preferred.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related senior technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for large‑scale, enterprise transformation or integration initiatives.
• Proven track record operating as a senior individual contributor, influencing strategy and outcomes without direct line management.
• Experience working within complex, global, matrixed organizations.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise platforms such as ERP, data, integration, and cloud technologies in a regulated or large‑enterprise environment.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Enterprise data, analytics, and AI strategy.
• Master data management and data governance.
• Data architecture and data engineering.
• Advanced analytics and AI‑enabled decision support.
• Executive communication and influence.
• Change management and organizational adoption.
• Agile / Scrum leadership and delivery.

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…