Director, Software Development

The Software Development Director will lead teams (offshore/onshore), delegate work to a team of developers and technical leads and be willing to be a hands-on individual contributor if needed with an architectural and technical design mentality to drive the right Design, Development and DevOps strategy and execution for the TA Software Solutions Portfolio. A primary responsibility will be positioning the organization for growth, particularly in the web and cloud domain – identifying the necessary skills, and talent locations, and building additional development teams from the ground up. The Software Development Director will also work closely with the Product Management and Portfolio Project Manager to estimate, plan, and deliver the roadmap, both for on-prem and cloud applications. 

• Partner with directors, engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers, and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and use the most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those. 

• Direct and oversee the software engineering function in developing, releasing, and maintaining on-prem and cloud applications according to business needs.  

• Develop research roadmap for software including User research, UI/UX Design, AI and data science-enabled product solutions for the customer base. 

• Translate the portfolio roadmap to capabilities and resource capacity, identify such gaps, and develop and implement a plan to fill them.  

• Design and architect software capable of reaching users across the globe and develop operational and capex budgets to achieve it. 

• Develop an outsource/insource strategy and build new web/cloud software development teams from the ground up.  

• Track progress towards portfolio KPIs and deliver objectives with high accuracy.  

• Ensure the development teams adhere to the software development processes and engineering practices 

• Identify opportunities for execution efficiency improvement.  

• Support the professional development of staff members by fostering delivery-focused abilities.  

• Interview, hire, onboard, and regularly evaluate lower-level management.  

• BS (or higher, g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience. 

• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering and at least 5 years of managerial experience. 

• A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity. 

• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems. 

• Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example, with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, Web API, and IIS. 

• Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning. 

• Experience writing RESTful. 

• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) is a plus. 

• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, Kinesis). 

• Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of fields, with one or more areas of deep knowledge and experience. 

• Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway, or with a different cloud provider and similar services. 

• Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model. 

• Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written. 

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.