Waters Corporation

Principal Data Engineer (Service)

Waters Corporation$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, particularly for data engineering.
  • Proven experience in building and operating end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
  • Experience in data integration from enterprise systems like Salesforce and SAP ERP.
  • Strong knowledge of service business domains and operations.
  • Familiarity with source control and collaborative development workflows.
  • Experience mentoring and sharing best practices within a team.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable data platforms integrating service and financial data.
  • Develop and maintain data pipelines ensuring quality and reliability.
  • Contribute to data platform design for various analytical workloads.
  • Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure trustworthiness.
  • Write production-grade Python code following good engineering practices.
  • Participate in code reviews and automated testing processes.
  • Collaborate with Service Excellence leaders for data readiness and business insights.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Access to advanced technologies and tools.
  • Collaborative and inclusive company culture.
  • Health, wellness, and retirement benefits.
Full Job Description
Overview

As a Principal Data Engineer (Service), you will be a senior technical contributor who partners closely with the Service Excellence team, data and analytics teams, and service business leaders across four commercial divisions representing $1.7B in service revenue. You will bring deep technical expertise in service business data domains, operate with a high degree of independence, and contribute to the design and delivery of scalable data platforms that enable strategic decision-making for revenue growth, margin expansion, and operational excellence initiatives targeting $200M+ in EBIT improvement.

Role Overview

The Principal Data Engineer (Service) designs, builds, and enhances robust data platforms and pipelines that integrate service delivery, financial, operational, and workforce data to support strategic planning, business case development, and performance monitoring. This role is primarily hands-on, with opportunities to contribute to platform design, data integration architecture, and cross-team collaboration. You will be a key problem solver for complex service data challenges and a trusted partner to both technical and business stakeholders driving service transformation.

Responsibilities

Data Engineering
  • Design and build scalable, reliable data platforms that integrate service delivery data (work orders, cases, products, geography), service team member data (roles, locations, workloads), service revenue and cost data, and proforma P&L information to enable strategic decision-making
  • Develop and maintain data pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, and persist data from enterprise systems including Salesforce, ServiceMax, SAP ERP, RingCentral, and Genesys, ensuring data quality and reliability
  • Contribute to data platform design for analytics, business case modeling, capacity optimization, and operational monitoring workloads, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Implement and maintain data quality checks, validation logic, and monitoring dashboards to ensure data health and trust across service business domains

Software Engineering
  • Develop production-grade Python code using strong OOP and functional programming practices
  • Follow and promote sound engineering practices, including modular design, testing, readability, and maintainability
  • Participate actively in code reviews, automated testing, and source control workflows

Analytics & Business Enablement
  • Partner with Service Excellence leaders, Finance Business Partners, and Data Scientists to ensure data is model-ready, reproducible, and well understood for business case development, financial planning, and performance tracking
  • Support analytical workflows that enable proforma P&L modeling, capacity optimization, margin analysis, and value realization tracking across service transformation initiatives
  • Translate service business requirements into scalable data solutions that support revenue growth, operational excellence, and integration objectives


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 8+ years of relevant industry experience, or equivalent practical experience
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with a strong focus on data engineering use cases
  • Proven experience building and operating end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT) in modern data environments
  • Experience integrating and enhancing data from enterprise systems including Salesforce, ServiceMax, SAP ERP, or similar platforms
  • Strong service business domain knowledge with understanding of service delivery operations, work order management, case management, service revenue and cost structures, and workforce optimization
  • Solid understanding of source control, collaborative development workflows, and production support
  • Experience mentoring peers and contributing to technical best practices within a team environment
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
  • Demonstrated drive, curiosity, humility, and ability to learn

Nice-to-Have / Plus Qualifications
  • Familiarity with process mining platforms such as Celonis, including working with event-based data and enabling transparency into end-to-end business processes
  • Experience with financial data modeling and integration, including P&L structures, cost allocation, and margin analysis
  • Experience with capacity modeling, workforce optimization, or operational analytics in service delivery environments
  • Experience with RingCentral or Genesys contact center data integration
  • Experience supporting M&A integration or complex organizational change initiatives


Key Words

#LI-Hybrid
#Data Engineer

About Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is a publicly traded Analytical Laboratory instrument and software company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts. The company designs, manufactures, sells and services high performance liquid chromatography, ultra performance liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry technology systems and support products primarily in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. The company's products are used by pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, academic and government organizations working in research and development, quality assurance and other laboratory applications. Waters Corporation's products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force and independent distributors.
Learn more about Waters Corporation
Size
7,800 employees
Market Cap
$20.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$521.5 million
Founded
1905
5 Year Trend
+5.1%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
NASDAQ

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