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.ResponsibilitiesEnterprise 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.QualificationsEducation* 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 environmentKey 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

• 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