Sr Platform Engineer

Waters Corporation; Milford (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Waters Corporation in Massachusetts is seeking a Senior Celonis Platform Engineer to own the Celonis platform, ensuring stability, security, and scalability while delivering enterprise-grade data, integration, automation, and AI solutions.

You will design, build, and optimize data pipelines and integrations with SAP, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, lead platform releases, migrations, and modernization, and mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform/ data engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on Celonis experience in data engineering, process mining, platform administration
• Strong Python, SQL, APIs, data modeling, and cloud (Azure) skills
• Experience with enterprise integrations (SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow)

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable data and automation solutions
• Architect and maintain scalable data pipelines integrating enterprise platforms with Celonis
• Design and optimize Celonis data models, analytics, and AI-enabled automations
• Lead platform release management, upgrades, migrations, and modernization
• Mentor junior engineers and document architectures clearly

Skills

Celonis Platform

Python

SQL

APIs

Data modelling

Cloud technologies (Azure)

Data pipelines

Agile

DevOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree or certifications (Celonis, RPA, Scrum)

Job description

Overview

Our Transformation team is on a mission to improve business outcomes and employee experiences by driving step-change improvements in critical enterprise processes.

We are seeking a Senior Celonis Platform Engineer to join our Process Intelligence team and the broader Data Engineering community. In this role, you will own the Celonis platform, ensuring its stability, security, and scalability while delivering enterprise-grade data, integration, automation, and AI solutions that generate measurable business value.

As a hands-on technical expert, you will design, build, and optimize data pipelines, integrations, process mining solutions, analytical applications, and automations. You will also drive platform engineering, release management, technology upgrades, and modernization initiatives while partnering closely with business stakeholders, process analysts, data engineers, and IT teams to deliver reliable, and future-ready Process Intelligence capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable data and automation solutions.
• Architect, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines integrating enterprise platforms (e.g., SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow) with Celonis.
• Design, build, and optimize Celonis data models, analytical applications, dashboards, and AI enabled automation that drives actionable insights.
• Establish and execute platform engineering and release management frameworks to enable seamless technology upgrades, migrations, and continuous platform modernization.
• Lead platform transformation initiatives, including migration of data models, analytical assets, integrations, and automation components across environments, business units, or technology platforms
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, and maintain clear technical documentation for solutions and architectures.
• Mentor junior engineers, establish best practices, and contribute to process intelligence, automation, and AI strategy.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, data engineering, process intelligence, automation, software engineering, analytics, or related technical disciplines.
• Hands-on expertise with Celonis around data engineering, process mining (nice-to-have OCPM), platform administration, application development, release management, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong technical proficiency in Python, SQL, APIs, data modelling, and cloud technologies (e.g., Azure), with experience integrating enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SuccessFactors etc.
• Proven experience delivering scalable enterprise solutions, including data, integration, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities, while leading platform releases, technology upgrades, migrations, and environment management using Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD best practices
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, a results-oriented mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Master’s degree or certifications such as Celonis, RPA, Scrum are a plus)

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.

Waters 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.