Overview:
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.
Responsibilities:
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 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.
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 workstreams, 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.
Qualifications:
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
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