Sr. Principal Cloud Lead

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

• 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.
• Cares about the overall interests of Waters and 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.

About the Role

Waters Corporation is seeking a Cloud Lead – Sr. Principal, Enterprise Cloud (AWS & Azure) to join their Global One Cloud team. The ideal candidate 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.