Lead Developer

Dow’s Digital Centers are focused on driving and accelerating our Digital Dow strategy as they spearhead digital capability and solution ideation, exploration, concept proofing, and pilots across multiple business process and business digital theme areas. The centers work both separately and collaboratively as required to enable value and achieve desired business outcomes. Individual Centers are focused on driving digital innovation in partnership with Dow sites, regions, functions, businesses and aligned Business Digital Themes and set goals specific to their areas of emphasis, in alignment with their key partners. 

As the Digital Center Lead Developer, you will be a member of the Digital Fulfillment Center (DFC). As a developer for the DFC, you will be working closely with the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) data scientists and stakeholders to design, develop, implement, and support innovative solutions. You will work closely with stakeholders to explore and scale new technologies to help meet business and functional needs. You will be a proponent and practitioner of Dow’s Agile Scrum methodology and strategy. You will be a mentor to less experienced developers on your direct scrum team, work with other senior developers within the DFC, and collaborate with other Dow developers. Additionally, you will help deliver demonstrations of technologies through showcases and participate in design thinking workshops, along with event storming sessions with stakeholders.  

Responsibilities

1. Understands, practices, and mentors good software design and development principles to ensure that the DFC is able to produce software of the highest quality, in the most efficient timeline, and will maintain these ideals throughout future projects 
2. Works with the Senior Advisory Developer to define the scope and solution architecture of products 
3. Leads the development of cloud native, scalable solutions 
4. Understands machine learning concepts and MLOps strategies 
5. Ensures dev team’s successful execution of iteration, including: Identifying and mitigating risks that may affect sprint success 
6. Identifying stories that are falling behind schedule and assists in recovery 
7. Identifying and eliminating gaps in dev team’s knowledge / talent 
8. Communicating and clarifying client specifications to developers 
9. Writing (and demonstrating the writing of) maintainable, reliable, efficient, and tested code 
10. Reviewing and upholding quality of dev team’s source code 
11. Understands complex data sources and integrations and develops/implements necessary data flows 
12. Implements top-tier security and data protection 
13. Partners with external vendors and academic institutions to collaboratively design and/or build the best solutions 
14. Develops and implements a robust set of microservices that power Dow’s machine learning use cases 
15. Builds reusable code and libraries for future use and sharing across Dow 
16. Contributes and enforces software best practices for Dow 
17. Works with the Product Manager to ensure technical feasibility of acceptance criteria and user stories  
18. Helps shape and guide the adoption of cloud technologies that integrate or interface with legacy systems 
19. Ensures that cross-team collaboration is happening within and outside the project team through explicit activities like knowledge sharing, architectural and design reviews and code reuse