DevOps Engineer, Digital Factory Lead - Research Triangle Park, NC

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, DevOps, DXP solutions, Software Development, Networking technologies

Job Description

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Description

At BASF, we create chemistry through the power of connected minds. By balancing economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility, we are building a more sustainable future through chemistry. As the world’s leading chemical company, we help our customers in nearly every industry meet the current and future needs of society through science and innovation.

We provide a challenging and rewarding work environment with a strong emphasis on process safety, as well as the safety of our employees and the communities we operate in and are always working to form the best team—especially from within, through an emphasis on lifelong learning and development.

And we are constantly striving to become an even better place to work. BASF has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2021. Come join us on our journey to create solutions for a sustainable future!

DevOps Engineer, Digital Factory Lead (2202113) – Research Triangle Park, NC

Where the Chemistry Happens

We are seeking a professional DevOps Engineer for a Digital Factory Lead position. This role plays an important part of constructing next generation digital solutions with focus on web and mobile sites, content delivery, LIMS, and other digital technology. This includes translating current state challenges into future state solutions/architectures and providing guidance and sharing to technical teams while collaborating closely with business stakeholders/partners, SME's, central IT partners, and vendors. This lead role drives technical decisions, reviews, and is accountable in delivering enterprise level technical solutions while ensuring the solutions meet Digital Factory architectural best practice, compliance, security and business specifications and requirements.

Formula for Success

• Leveraging your knowledge gained through education (bachelor’s degree preferred) or considerable relevant, hands-on experience, you will deliver enterprise level technical solutions. 
• Demonstrating your strong entrepreneurial drive, you will initiate, lead and execute process improvements, projects of digital architecture and technical solutions.
• Your technical leadership will be essential in managing both customers and business users via the entire application lifecycle including design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Your entrepreneurial drive will be evident as you lead Scrum/Agile software development from conceptualization to implementation to ongoing maintenance.
• Understanding internal and external stakeholder pain-points, you will anticipate customers’ needs and proactively translate into digital solutions.
• Applying your excellent strategic and analytical thinking supported by digital and business insights and data, you will document all technical processes, requirements, flows and diagrams, as well as develop appropriate requirements, design, testing and deployment documentation to support solution delivery.
• Leveraging your ability to challenge, present new ideas, drive change and influence decisions, you will drive and perform products/new technologies/solutions proof of concept and evaluation.
• Your effective communication and interpersonal skills will serve you well as you provide subject matter expertise to internal customers/stakeholders around implementation methodologies and how to successfully deploy digital solutions.
• Utilizing your solid leadership ability, you will manage vendors and lead key technical decisions.