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. About you and this role 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 . You will: 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 DevOps  PowerShell  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 DevOps   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.

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