IT Solution Manager
At a glance
Position: IT Solution Manager
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: R2067604
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 an exciting opportunity for an Azure Solution Manager and a Software Engineer 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 Enterprise-grade BI
Complex Data-Powered Web Applications
As a Software Engineer , you will own and manage a portfolio of digital solutions and practices , guiding them through their full lifecycle- from analysis and design to implementation, adoption, optimization, and end-of-life retirement . Your goal is to deliver advanced functional and business capabilities that accelerate Dow's digital transformation .
You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary IT team -including analysts, designers, developers, and support specialists-to deliver innovative, user-centric solutions . A key responsibility is to orchestrate functional and technical requirements analysis , focusing on experience, simplification, automation, efficiency, and reliability .
What You'll Do
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 DevOps/Git , championing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to ensure highly reliable, automated, and secure system deployments.
Service Leadership : Fulfill service or practice manager responsibilities for IT, following the ITIL framework to deliver value.
Requirements & Experience Mapping : Analyze business and functional requirements; map user journeys, UX, and user stories to enhance employee and customer experience.
Solution Lifecycle Management : Own end-to-end lifecycle-design, architecture, integration (buy vs. build), development, testing, adoption, and retirement.
Delivery Excellence : Support both waterfall and agile methodologies; ensure successful implementation and user adoption.
Performance & Support : Define supplier and team support models; monitor SLA, OLA, and KPI compliance and act on deviations.
Integration & Optimization : Coordinate with other managers for end-to-end process integration and optimization.
Roadmap & Innovation : Define improvement and innovation roadmaps; assess resources, technology, and investment needs.
Thought Leadership : Foster a community of solution experts and act as a domain thought leader.
Resource & Financial Management : Assist with workload analysis, capacity planning, and lifecycle cost management.
Strategic Enablement : Partner with stakeholders to support M&A activities as needed.
What You Bring
Core Technical Mastery (5+ Years Demonstrated Experience)
Azure Data Platform Engineering: Proven experience in architecting and implementing enterprise-grade data solutions on Azure, leveraging services such as Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Power Platform, and Databricks to enable secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data pipelines.
Performance & Scalability Optimization : Expertise in diagnosing and tuning distributed data processing workloads, ensuring optimal performance for large-scale, high-volume environments through advanced optimization strategies and resource management.
Cloud Orchestration Expertise: Deep expertise in leveraging Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks Workflows, or equivalent enterprise orchestrators (e.g., Airflow) for complex metadata management, failure handling, and multi-cloud data integration.
Polyglot Persistence: Proven ability to manage, optimize, and integrate data from diverse persistence layers, including relational (SQL Server), document (CosmosDB), and graph (Neo4j) databases.
Leadership and Strategic Mindset
Technical Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead technical implementation for high-impact projects, effectively articulating technical visions to engineering peers and senior stakeholders, and influencing strategic technology choices. Comfortable delivering technical seminars and evangelizing data solutions best practices to promote a culture of performance and excitement for the field.
Mentorship and Skill Development: Demonstrated history of coaching and mentoring junior team members, resulting in measurable improvements in team skillsets and code quality.
End-to-End Ownership: Ability to drive projects autonomously from requirement definition through to stable production deployment and post-launch monitoring, understanding and enforcing software development best practices throughout the lifecycle.
Your Skills
- Solutions Delivery: End-to-end ownership of Azure data solutions-translating ambiguous business needs into robust architectural blueprints, then delivering through design, build, test, deployment, and post-launch monitoring with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost efficienc
