Sr Principal Enterprise Architect

Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

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' long-term 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 near-term transformation choices support long-term scalability, resilience, and value creation.

• 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 multi-year roadmaps.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders on complex trade-offs involving cost, speed, risk, and scalability.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures to drive consistency and reuse across the enterprise.

• 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.

• 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 release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases…