Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead

Overview

Waters Corporation is currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer/Lead Developer to join our organization in our Milford Global HQ, with the flexibility of a hybrid schedule. 

You will join our QA/QC R&D organization which develops liquid chromatography instrumentation hardware and software in a dynamic and collaborative environment. In this role, you, will lead an agile team into developing our next generation Empower data systems and data collaboration software Apps for cloud computing environment.

To be successful in this role, you need to have a solid full stack software development talent for cloud applications along with demonstrated technical team leadership skills. Prior experience with Chromatographic data systems is highly desirable for this role.  You also need to be comfortable with developing complex software systems from scratch as well as maintaining legacy code following Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Chromatography Data System Applications in a cloud environment.
• Assume lead developer role by establishing and following development best-practices, participating in, and initiating of code and design reviews, and coaching of junior members.
• Coordinate team efforts and workload planning to ensure projects are delivered on time while meeting quality standards and business objectives.
• Interface with product stakeholders to drive and refine requirements through proactive planning and defining of short-term and long-term deliverables.
• Drive discussions on requirement refinement bringing the technology viewpoint into the solutions.
• Develop long and short-term strategies for developing software, organizing the workload, and ensuring efficient use of team resources.
• Communicate project progress and provide regular reports to leadership.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in software engineering preferably in a regulated development environment.
• Strong C#, .Net Core, JSON, OOD experience.
• Front end development using Angular, Typescript, Jasmine, and Karma testing frameworks.
• Web page technologies HTML, CSS, REST APIs.
• Development tools including JIRA, Visual Studio, GitHub, Spinnaker, YAML, Jenkins, Confluence, and Datadog.
• AWS Cloud Experience. Docker, Containers and Microservices.
• Modeling of complex scientific data using efficient Data Structures
• Experience architecting complex systems considering scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience leading a team to successful product launch working within cross functional departments.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience with Chromatography systems and principles or with commercial Apps development for Analytical Instrumentation.
• Experience creating roadmaps/milestones and report on risks and progress to project stakeholders.
• Experience acting as the bridge between the technical team and the non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in a cross functional product team with hardware and software components.

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.