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INVISTA IT is currently seeking an IT Technical Analyst to join our China team. The application technical analyst is a key IT team member who provides technical expertise to ensure successful IT project delivery, enhancements, as well as high-quality day-to-day application support. This role will partner with various IT teams and business capabilities within INVISTA and across other Koch companies to solve complex problems and rapidly deliver IT solutions.

Candidates will also work as part of a global team to design and deploy modern software, with a special emphasis on solutions creating value for our business in China. A strong candidate will possess a passion for modern application architecture including cloud technology, automation, and experience designing and integrating complex systems. The ability to collaborate with a global team and advance IT architecture strategies in China is a key part of this role with contribution motivated mindset.

What You Will Do

• As a member of global IT organization, working with internal customers, IT staff and external parties to identify, design and implement technical solutions that support our business and operation.
• Understand existing and emerging technologies to drive application roadmaps that align with IT vision in support of corporate vision.
• Network across different teams in sites to understand direction, key challenges that can be addressed through new digital technology and seek to solve problems with IT technologies and solutions.
• As enabler of a product team, you will apply a DevOps approach to deliver a portfolio of applications, interfaces, and data analytics (SaaS, third-party software, and internal applications) interacting with business partners, understanding their requirements, and executing on solutions to meet their needs.
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative to drive and achieve improvement opportunities focusing on root cause analysis to enable self-serve, automation, eliminating old process and technologies, and continuous optimization of our long-term valued systems.
• Proactively identifying areas of risk and improvement opportunities to prevent issues or optimize support experience.
• Coordinating with other IT and business partners to perform routine maintenance such as patches, upgrades, changes releases, etc., with reduced impact to the business.
• Participating in an on-call support rotation which provides technical support twenty-four hours a day for critical issues.
• Effectively managing the communication with business partners and project stakeholders from different levels of organization.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working with at least one of popular programming languages, such as SQL, Python, JavaScript or #
• Experience in the deployment and on-going management of software applications in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts with technical and non-technical team members.
• Good at both Mandarin and English (Oral and written)

What Will Put You Ahead

• 5 years or above working experience in IT area.
• Hands-on experience with cloud native technologies (containers, serverless, microservices, modern databases).
• Demonstrated application of DevOps/Gitlab practices including CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience modernizing (new technology) legacy applications (older technology) that creates long term value.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6, 6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.