Sr. IT Analyst
At a glance
Position: Sr. IT Analyst
Primary Location: Midland (MI, USA),
Michigan,
United States of America
Additional Locations: Houston (TX, USA)
Schedule: Full time
Date Posted: 07/27/2026
Job Number: R2067603
Position Type: Regular
Workplace Type: Onsite
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.
Responsibilities
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.
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
Core Technical Expertise
DevOps or DevSecOps : Experience building and deploying cloud solutions that adhere to the core principles of DevOps or DevSecOps processes and tools
Concepts, how to, and best practices , along with hands on knowledge and experience in:?
DevOps practices and tools, understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), and familiarity with cloud services and infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform, ARM)?
Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and architecture
General understanding of digital industry trends including Cloud/SaaS, Analytics, Social, and Security/Risk Management, and Internet of Things?
Databricks Platform Proficiency , including its components like Databricks SQL, Delta Live Tables, Databricks Repos, and Task Orchestration
Cloud Orchestration: Expertise in using Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks Workflows, or equivalent tools (e.g., Airflow) for complex dependency management, error handling, and end-to-end pipeline orchestration.
Agility : Demonstrated knowledge and experience in Agile software development methodologies and work processes, especially Scrum
Engineering Mindset and Professional Growth
Technical Design Contribution: Ability to rapidly synthesize information and contribute clear, well-documented technical specifications and architectural diagrams to the design process.
Feature Ownership: Demonstrated history of taking ownership of complex features and modules within larger projects, driving them to completion, and managing technical dependencies autonomously.
Pragmatism and Initiative: A strong bias for action, coupled with a pragmatic approach to delivering stable, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions.
Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical designs to both engineering peers and senior stakeholders, effectively influencing technical decisions.
Preferred Skills
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) and DevOps pipelines.
Experience with cloud cost management principles related to compute (Databricks) and storage (ADLS).
Experience with design and configuration of SAP ERP, SAP APO, and/or OMP technology platforms.
Proficiency in system integrations, data management, and troubleshooting complex application issues.
Azure DevOps pipelines, source code control
