Solution Manager

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 (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people.

Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer‑centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting  opens in a new tab.

Dow has an exciting opportunity for an Azure Solution Manager located in Midland, MI or Houston, TX. The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader responsible for the end‑to‑end architectural design and strategic implementation of our most complex and high‑profile innovative data initiatives. This role requires deep technical mastery to support, build, and enhance Dow’s Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

You will be critical in shaping the data landscape, ensuring our architecture is reliable, cost‑effective, and ready to power advanced, high‑impact applications across the business, including:

• Mission‑Critical Machine Learning (ML) Solutions
• Real‑Time and Streaming Data Consumption
• Generative and Agentic AI Systems Advanced Reporting and Enterprisegrade BI
• Complex Data‑Powered Web Applications

• Strategic Design & Scoping:
  Lead the end‑to‑end technical design and scoping of high‑impact projects. You will translate ambiguous business challenges into clear, efficient, and scalable solutions with robust architectural blueprints.
• Technical Mentorship & Code Quality: Serve as a primary technical mentor for Associate and mid‑level Platform Engineers, elevating the team’s overall skillset. You will establish coding standards, perform complex code reviews, and drive the adoption of solution designs and best practices across all skillsets.
• Solution Design & Delivery Excellence: Architect and deliver advanced Azure cloud data solutions that optimize performance and cost through scalable architectures, efficient resource utilization, and proactive resolution of complex bottlenecks—ensuring reliability, agility, and minimal compute expense.
• Strategic Alignment: Work closely with the Senior Solution Manager to evaluate new technologies, define work processes, and make strategic decisions that align data platform capabilities with the company’s long‑term IT and corporate strategies.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner effectively with a wide range of data professionals—including Data Engineers, Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and Business Analysts
  —as well as non‑technical business partners to define requirements and deliver data products that meet high‑stakes analytical needs.
• Architecture & Deployment Ownership: Take ownership of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure components in Azure Dev Ops/Git
  , championing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to ensure highly reliable, automated, and secure system deployments.

• Azure Data Platform Engineering: Proven experience in architecting and implementing enterprise‑grade data solutions on Azure, leveraging services such as Azure…