Overview

The Strategy & Operational Excellence team is on a mission to improve both our customer and employee experience by transforming how we plan, buy, make, and distribute products in Waters Global Operations. Our four pillars of focus include Strategy, Processes and Systems, Continuous Improvement, and Insights.

As a Principal Data Engineer/Analyst you will be working on a multi-disciplinary team within Global Operations focused on driving process improvements, developing technology and analytical solutions, and enabling data driven decisions at all leadership levels. This will require you to collaborate with colleagues from both operations and IT backgrounds to identify and prioritize opportunities, make the changes, provide training, and monitor adherence and adoption.

In this role, your focus will be on enhancing processes and technology that support Sales & Operational Execution and Inventory Management. A solid foundation in data engineering and data visualization is required. Experience with systems like SAP, Celonis, and PowerBI, as well as domain knowledge in supply chain planning would be an advantage.

This role will report to a Director, Global Operations Transformation Lead. Location: Milford, MA or Wilmslow, UK

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team and with functional leaders across multiple domains to develop a good understanding of current processes and systems used
• Develop Celonis and PowerBI visualizations, apps, and reports that enable data-driven decision making and actions to be taken
• Build data processing pipelines that enable data extraction and transformation from a variety of source systems (with SAP Materials Management tables being a key data source)
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize data processes focusing on data reliability and quality
• Derive insights through data, provide context for findings, highlight confounding variables, and provide awareness into exceptions.
• Engineer data pipelines for broad analytics use
• Keep abreast of developments in data engineering, act as a thought leader by engaging colleagues in active dialogue regarding industry trends and recommendations, and implement best practices

Qualifications

• BS/BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, Masters preferred
• 7 years’ experience in a software development, data engineering, and/or data visualization role
• Experience within Supply Chain and/or Manufacturing domains or strong interest in learning
• Experience writing code in at least one OOP language (preferred language is Python)
• Experience working with large and small data sets from multiple sources and formats
• Experience developing complex visualizations within Power BI or similar environment
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases
• Ability to derive insights using variable and categorical datasets
• Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences in both written and oral forms
• Results oriented mindset, operate with high sense of urgency

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. 

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