Sr. Principal Cloud Lead

Overview

Do you want to help shape the future of Enterprise Cloud at Waters? Would you like to lead cloud strategy and engineering initiatives that enable secure, scalable, and compliant platforms across AWS and Azure? How about an opportunity to modernize enterprise workloads and establish the next generation of cloud capabilities across the company as we scale to 16K employees? Do you want to be part of a global digital transformation journey and help grow multi-million $$ digital and B2B eCommerce business?

Waters is seeking a Cloud Lead – Sr. Principal, Enterprise Cloud (AWS & Azure) to join our Global One Cloud team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise cloud engineering initiatives, including onboarding new workloads, application modernization, multi-cloud governance, landing zones, and secure cloud platform adoption.

A successful candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS and Azure, cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code, and enterprise governance. As a senior technical leader, you will partner with Architecture, Security, Engineering, and Business teams to define standards, drive modernization, and enable secure, compliant, and highly available cloud platforms. 

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud engineering strategy across AWS and Azure, establishing standards, governance, and best practices.
• Drive onboarding and integration of new enterprise workloads through scalable landing zones and cloud platform capabilities.
• Lead application rationalization, cloud modernization, and cloud-native transformation initiatives.
• Define and implement cloud architectures for networking, identity, security, resiliency, observability, and automation.
• Own Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation strategies using Terraform and CI/CD platforms.
• Ensure cloud environments meet corporate, regulatory, and GxP compliance requirements through secure-by-design architectures.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, and Application teams to deliver reliable and cost-optimized cloud platforms.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance across the Global One Cloud organization.

Qualifications

Abilities that will help you be successful: 

• 12+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, or Enterprise Infrastructure roles.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, and CI/CD platforms.
• Deep understanding of cloud governance, landing zones, security, compliance, and GxP-regulated environments.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to simplify complex technical challenges.
• Experience leading efforts in agile/scrum environments with knowledge of project planning, staffing, and estimating in an agile software development process.
• Experience managing off-shore teams as well as SI partners

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

• Operates with integrity, transparency and humility
• Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters
• Carries a broad global perspective of markets, tech, and trends
• Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results
• Actively creates the conditions for Waters’ people and teams to succeed

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information technology or related experience

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Key Words

AWS, Azure, FinOps, Integration, Control Tower, Landing Zone, WARF, SecOps, Reliability, Cost Optimization, Compute