DESCRIPTION:
Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™, enables unmatched levels of performance and protection for end-use applications, including ballistic personal protection, marine and sustainable infrastructure and outdoor sports
Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
Avient employs approximately 10,000 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. For more information, visit .
WHY AVIENT:
Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.
Job Summary
Our Avient IT team is seeking an Analyst to be part of a new analytics platform being developed for our global organization. In this role, you will focus on expanding our Snowflake data warehouse, leveraging your robust SQL skills to move analytics data from a raw state into a refined, analytics-ready state where it will be consumed by end users. This position supports a self-service analytics model by delivering well-defined and transformed datasets that provide consistency in reporting, facilitate efficient data mining, and help our business partners generate insights.
Essential Functions
- Collaborate with business associates and other IT resources to understand analytic needs, including localizations required by our global business
- Translate those needs into technical solutions that properly move data through the Snowflake landscape
- Maintain relevant technical documentation to ensure streamlined support and knowledge transfer within areas of responsibility
- Support those processes as needed going forward
- Prepare and execute unit and integration testing. Support user acceptance testing
- Provide hypercare support after each go-live
- Troubleshoot and resolve analytic issues impacting the business
- Other duties and projects as assigned
Education and Experience
- Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems or related business field required
- 3+ years of experience in Analytics technical roles
- Snowflake and SQL experience required
- Experience with Qlik Replicate to ingest data to Snowflake is preferred
- Experience with Agile methodology and Jira software is preferred
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a global team is required
- Ability to create and maintain robust documentation of IT processes is required
- Strong collaboration skills within a team, across IT, and with business users is required
- Strong trouble-shooting and problem solving skills is required
- Successful candidates will be driven to succeed while fostering a great place to work