Senior Data Engineer

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 Senor Data Analyst, you will be working within the Insights pillar working cross-functionally within Operations focused on driving process and system improvements. This will require you to collaborate with colleagues from both operations and IT backgrounds to identify and prioritize process and systems improvement opportunities, make the changes, provide training, and monitor adoption. This will require you to play a key role enabling data driven decisions at the executive and line management levels by managing data within disparate systems as well as your ability to collaborate with and influence stakeholders across and beyond Global Operations. This role will report to a Director, GO Transformation Lead.

Typical tasks of the position include, but are not limited to

• Work collaboratively within a cross-functional team and with functional leaders across multiple domains to develop a good understanding of current processes and systems used
• Assemble Waters Operations data into formats such as dashboards, scorecards, written reports, and presentations as determined appropriate through communication with stakeholders
• Building data processing pipelines that enable data extraction and transformation
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize data processes focusing on data reliability and quality
• Derive insights through Operations data, provide context for findings, highlight confounding variables, and provide awareness into exceptions.
• Engineer dataflows for broad analytics use
• Generate and distribute reports on a routine basis to internal stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of developments in the data analysis industry, act as a thought leader by engaging colleagues in active dialogue regarding industry trends and recommendations and implement best practices

The successful candidate will have a combination of knowledge, skills, and experience that would include the following

• BS/BSc in analytics, statistics or related field, Masters preferred
• Knowledge of data extraction and engineering methods, including SQL
• Experience with Power BI or other visualization toolsets
• Experience with process mining software (e.g., Celonis)
• Ability to derive insights using variable and categorical datasets
• Ability to work with large and small data sets from multiple sources and formats
• Ability to write code in at least one OOP language (preferred language is Python)
• Experience with statistical analysis tools (e.g. libraries within Python, R, Matlab)
• Working knowledge of machine learning methods in regression and classification
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases
• Analytical thinker with an empirical orientation
• Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences in both written and oral forms
• Goal focused; measures work in its contributions to business outcomes and prioritizes effort against deliverables accordingly

 

 

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 more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 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.