Smurfit Westrock is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions, and they are seeking an IT & Digital Analyst for their Technology Leadership Development Program. This program is designed to develop future IT & Digital leaders through various tracks, offering exposure to IT functions and opportunities for professional growth.
Support the development of digital products, methodology and capability alignments
Create and define the features and customer experience through high quality business requirements, and user stories while managing the scope of each release
Balance both qualitative and quantitative data analysis to balance constraints and customer needs to ensure execution of the full product lifecycle process from concept to launch
Coordinate pilots and go-to-market plans for the launch of new digital products, features, and functionality
Develop front and backend software solutions tailored to WestRock business needs
Have a strong sense of code ownership through development and deploy cycles with autonomy to continuously improve systems using C#, net Core and modern Microsoft stack, web-based systems architectures, HTML5, CSS3, ES6 JavaScript, REST and JSON, React, Vue.JS, ASP.NET MVC or similar frameworks and/or libraries
Collaborate with other Developers, Product Management, UI/UX, DevOps, SecOps and QA team members on subjects from design to deployment
Participate in evolving development standards, guidelines, and services for common use by other internal software development teams
Assist with business relationship management to include partnering with stakeholders to collect and document requirements
Partner with business stakeholders and IT/Digital teams on aggregating, prioritizing and building future roadmaps
Work with master data to ensure proper maintenance, data preparation and accuracy for metrics and reporting
Assist with the migration of reports to modern solutions and build report/data catalogs for data lake enablement
Assist with project management activities on major initiatives for the business
Lead projects and support key initiatives as assigned
Formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists the business with decision making, policy formulation and/or other management functions through solutions that save time, cost, or improve processes
Analyze large data sets and use programming languages such as Python, R, IBM SPSS Modeler to develop statistical and optimization models to drive business solutions
Build large data sets from multiple sources to build algorithms for predicting future data characteristics
Setups and deploys models/solutions in a live/production environment
Identify data needs and requirements for data collection, transformation and integration to support modeling needs
Develop executive dashboards on program/project status, prepare business cases, technical reports, presentations, and status briefings; present as required to key stakeholders
Support self-sever and analytics strategy projects for coordination and execution
Partner with Information Security team members to support the development of awareness and training materials to enable company-wide understanding of cybersecurity risks and best practices
Participate in risk management activities, including supporting the continued build-out of the Information Security Risk Register
Support the design and development of security metrics and security metrics dashboarding to assist with the visualization of security key performance and risk indicators
Assist in compliance tracking and documentation activities for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance
Support the completion of user access review documentation to contribute to SOX compliance efforts
Assist the Information Security team’s Third-Party Security Management function to execute security assessments of third parties
Support the Information Security team’s Enterprise Security Architecture function to conduct security and architectural reviews of upcoming technology deployments
Assist the Security Operations Center with security monitoring activities and analysis
Participate in Identity and Access management activities, supporting the provisioning and deprovisioning of system access to applications
Create project planning documentation, including work plans and action item trackers to coordinate key initiatives across the Information Security team
Engage with Product Owners, UI/UX, DevOps, and QA teams on topics ranging from design to deployment.
Work together on creating technical specification documents based on product owner specifications.
Offer technical guidance and mentorship to colleagues in your areas of expertise.
Constantly refine and disseminate your knowledge of the latest tools, processes, and techniques to the team.
Design and oversee the integration, analysis, and evaluation of plans and strategies across various projects.
Oversee system integration, verification, and testing for bespoke applications and infrastructure for enterprise clients.
Most importantly, you will code. You will code like a champion.
Digital Acceleration is focused on finding technical solutions to problems that business leaders bring to our team. An analyst on our team would be staffed on an existing 'acceleration' or have an opportunity to lead their own.
Gain a deep understanding of the problems and areas of opportunity in the business units that bring ideas to Digital Acceleration.
Work with business leaders to refine their ideas and develop a roadmap for solving those problems with technical solutions.
Work with technical teams and partners to test, validate and deliver solutions to solve business problems.
Assist the Digital Acceleration team with ongoing projects, including assisting with change management, requirements gathering, prototyping and solution design.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Business Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Business Analysis / Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction
Strong interest in technology, innovation and working in a fast paced, global organization
Knowledge of IT systems, specifications, networks, and computer systems
Strong analytic/problem-solving skills, attention to detail, passion for improvement, and desire to work in a team/collaborative environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization
Excellent leadership, prioritization, and organizational skills
Ability to quickly adapt to change, multi-task and prioritize multiple projects
Strong capabilities with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
Willingness to work in Atlanta, GA, and work in or travel to manufacturing / production environments
Preferred
Minimum 3.25 GPA preferred
Relevant experience including internships, co-op assignments and leadership roles a plus
Project planning and management skills preferred
Benefits
Smurfit Westrock is the global leader of paper-based packaging solutions.
