Sr. IT Analyst

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we're passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We're a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future.

Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you're looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you're in the right place.

Dow has exciting opportunities for an Azure Platform Engineer (Sr. IT Analyst) and Software Engineer (Sr. IT Analyst) located in Midland, MI or Houston, TX .

Make significant technical contributions to critical data initiatives within our team at Dow.

Be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining data platforms and analytics solutions on the Azure cloud platform to enable business objectives and accelerate Dow's digital transformation.

Focus on developing scalable and efficient data processing pipelines, implementing data integration and transformation processes, and ensuring the availability, security, and performance of data and analytics solutions.

You will be working with a cross-functional team that includes Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Machine Learning Engineers while using:
Azure Dev Ops Power Shell Python Azure Cloud Azure Databricks

You will use expanded conceptual and practical knowledge, own a small portfolio of solutions and systems (applications) and manage a lifecycle - analysis, design, implementation/adoption, optimization, and end-of-life retirement of digital solutions, delivering advanced functional and business capabilities. Work hand-in-hand with a multi-disciplinary IT expert team (analysts/designers/developers/support) to deliver innovative digital solutions. Gather and analyze data to perform a functional and technical requirements analysis - with emphasis on experience, simplification, automation, efficiency, reliability.

Oversee the development, optimization, implementation and adoption of solutions leveraging best-in-class mobile, web, desktop, cloud technologies. Identifies opportunities for innovating with digital capabilities aiming to accelerate Dow's digital transformation.

• Designs, implements, and maintains scalable and reliable Azure cloud infrastructure to support our modern data platform
• Collaborates with a diverse team to build and enhance our data platform to enable data collection, processing, access, usability, and monitoring
• Deploys Azure services using Infrastructure as Code and Azure Dev Ops
• Develops and deploys scalable and efficient data processing pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks
• Works with cross-functional teams to develop and implement cloud-based solutions in the Application Development Lifecycle (Development / Test / Production)
• Ensures maintenance of Infrastructure as Code libraries
• Continuously explores and adopts new technologies and best practices to improve our data infrastructure
• Provides technical expertise and guidance to team members and stakeholders
• Ensures Change Management and Configuration Management standards are implemented and executed
• Ensures technical, architecture, and application designs aligns to company IT architecture and security standards
• Requirements Analysis
  - Understands key business drivers in order to explore, analyze, and map business and function requirements.
• Experience Mapping
  - Maps user journeys, user experience, user stories (user features) to facilitate employee experience (EX) / customer experience (CX) transformation.
• IT Solution/Application/System - drives the full solution lifecycle, including functional / technical design - solution architecture, buy vs make decisions - integration of third-party off-the-shelf software, develops / integrates / tests / builds solutions - with ability to operate in both waterfall and agile environment, ensures compliance to corporate standards, architecture guidelines, and information security policies
• Adoption
  - Supports implementation and user adoption
• Support
  - With guidance selects and defines supplier and team support models
• Performance
  - Defines controls, measures and KPIs for solution performance and reliability
• End-to-End Integration
  - Coordinates with other Business Process Managers and Solutions Managers for end-to-end process optimization and integration
• Roadmaps
  - Defines a solution(s) portfolio improvement and innovation roadmap with proper sequencing and prioritization of projects;
  Help assess resource, technology, investment needed in delivering against the roadmap
• Team Management
  - Assist Sr. Solution Manager with workload analysis for team to ensure proper resource alignment for capacity planning

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