Principal Pricing Data Engineer
Waters Corporation · Milford, MA · 1 mo ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, and persist pricing-relevant data, including: Transactional sales data (orders, invoices, contracts), Price lists, discounts, rebates, and surcharges, Cost, margin, and profitability data
- Develop and maintain pricing-specific data models, including: Price waterfall, Customer and product segmentation hierarchies, Realized price and margin analytics
- Define and implement the end-to-end pricing data architecture, ensuring integration across systems such as ERP, CRM, and CPQ.
- Establish scalable frameworks to support global pricing governance and standardization across divisions and regions.
- Contribute to and influence data platform design for analytics, machine learning, and Agentic AI workloads, with a focus on pricing use cases.
- Build high-performance data pipelines capable of supporting: Large-scale transactional datasets, Near real-time pricing insights and monitoring
- Implement and maintain data quality checks, validation logic, and monitoring dashboards to ensure pricing data integrity and auditability.
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability in cloud environments.
- Partner closely with Global Pricing and Commercial teams to translate business problems into scalable data solutions.
- Enable advanced pricing analytics, including: Price realization and leakage analysis, Discount and rebate effectiveness, Customer/product elasticity modeling (in collaboration with data science)
- Support development of pricing dashboards, KPIs, and reporting frameworks used by senior leadership.
- 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.
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.
- Solid understanding of source control, collaborative development workflows, and production support.
- Strong experience working with commercial and pricing-related data (e.g., sales transactions, pricing, margins, rebates).
- 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.