Application Deployment Leader

Job description

Company Overview Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion. At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future. This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward. We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger. We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide. Your Future Starts Here. If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong. Anything is possible when you imagine everything. Role Overview Hexion is seeking an Application Deployment and Delivery Leader to deploy target-state enterprise application architecture and lead reliable deployment of strategic agentic applications on our Azure agentic tech stack. This role assures and leads deployment readiness, release governance; coordinates cloud, network, identity, security, integration, data, DevOps, and operational requirements; and advises internal teams and implementation partners to expedite and deliver our agentic workloads. This role works closely with the AI teams and IO’s (Initiative owners) driving agentic projects. Key Responsibilities Guide prototypes and vendor-built solutions into Hexion-managed production patterns, including solutions built with Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, container platforms, and enterprise SaaS products. Release agentic applications aligned to target-state enterprise application architecture, reference patterns, technology standards, and design principles across cloud, SaaS, packaged, and custom solutions. Own the cross-portfolio deployment RAID log, prioritize business-critical blockers, and direct internal and partner resources toward timely resolution. Own our Azure cloud Architecture Framework and subscriptions/automation and CI/CD strategy for hosting agentic, vibe coded and other applications Support our enterprise architecture review process for new applications, material changes, integrations, and deployment designs. Create reusable application blueprints and guardrails that internal teams and partners can adopt consistently across development, QA, production, and disaster-recovery environments. Maintain clear architecture decisions, standards exceptions, ownership models, and nonfunctional requirements for performance, availability, security, compliance, and supportability. Ensure deployment prerequisites are planned and delivered, including VNets and subnets, private endpoints, API Management, container registries and runtimes, secrets, app registrations, SSO, databases, storage, and CI/CD pipelines. Establish reusable release plans, cutover checklists, rollback procedures, runbooks, monitoring, service-transition, and production-acceptance criteria. Provide technical oversight across application hosting, APIs and integration, data access, identity, networking, cybersecurity, observability, resilience, scalability, and cost. Working closely with the AI teams Act as an architectural advisor to application owners, engineering teams, infrastructure and security teams, and implementation and hypercare partners proactively. Required Technologies Azure application hosting: Azure Container Apps, App Service, Functions, Container Registry, API Management, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Blob Storage. Integration & automation: Azure Logic Apps, APIs, event-driven integration, batch and file integration, and workflow automation. Identity, network & security: Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, app registrations, RBAC, managed identities, VNets and subnets, private endpoints, TLS, Key Vault, and secrets management. DevOps & deployment: Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, infrastructure as code with Terraform, environment promotion, and release automation. Data & analytics: Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure SQL, Power BI, and secure application access to enterprise data. Operations & reliability: monitoring, logging, observability, performance management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and production-support practices. Enterprise applications & platforms: SAP ECC and S/4HANA, SAP BW and Datasphere, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and enterprise SaaS solutions. Required Qualifications Azure application hosting: Azure Container Apps, App Service, Functions, Container Registry, API Management, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Blob Storage. Integration & automation: Azure Logic Apps, APIs, event-driven integration, batch and file integration, and workflow automation. Identity, network & security: Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, app registrations, RBAC, managed identities, VNets and subnets, private endpoints, TLS, Key Vault, and secrets management. DevOps & deployment: Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, infrastructure as code with Terraform, environment promotion, and release automation. Data & analytics: Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure SQL, Power BI, and secure application access to enterprise data. Operations & reliability: monitoring, logging, observability, performance management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and production-support practices. Enterprise applications &Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 12+ years designing and delivering enterprise applications and technology platforms, including substantial experience in enterprise or application architecture and deployment leadership. Proven success leading complex application modernization, cloud migration, integration, and production-deployment programs in a global enterprise. Deep, hands-on knowledge of Azure application architecture, networking, identity, security, integration, DevOps, and operational-readiness requirements. Experience with SAP-centered application landscapes and the integration of ERP, data, digital, and SaaS solutions. Demonstrated ability to establish architecture governance, reusable patterns, deployment gates, and lifecycle standards across a diverse application portfolio. Strong experience leading multi-environment deployments, cutovers, hypercare, incident triage, and transition to support. Track record coordinating multiple vendors and distributed technical teams while managing dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and executive escalations. Ability to connect technical architecture to business outcomes in a manufacturing environment, balancing speed, resilience, cybersecurity, cost, and supportability. Excellent executive communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to set direction and drive adoption without relying on direct authority. platforms: SAP ECC and S/4HANA, SAP BW and Datasphere, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and enterprise SaaS solutions. Preferred Qualifications Experience in chemical, process, or industrial manufacturing and understanding of plant, supply-chain, R&D, commercial, and corporate application needs. Experience deploying AI and agentic applications using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform. Familiarity with product operating models, portfolio rationalization, application lifecycle management, and enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF. Experience operating in secure, multi-vendor delivery environments with private networking, production controls, and formal service transition. Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, ITIL, or comparable architecture and delivery credentials. Success Measures Target-state enterprise application architecture, reference patterns, and technology standards are defined, documented, and adopted. Strategic applications move from design through development, QA, production cutover, and hypercare with fewer late-stage blockers and more predictable outcomes. Standardized Azure deployment blueprints, CI/CD patterns, security controls, network patterns, and operational runbooks are delivered and in active use. Cross-portfolio RAID backlogs and deployment dependencies are measurably reduced, with clear ownership, dates, decisions, and escalation paths. Application quality, resilience, security, delivery velocity, and business value improve across Hexion's portfolio, with stronger alignment between architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and delivery teams. An architecture review and deployment-readiness process is followed and consistently applied to strategic application initiatives. Other We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site and, be at least 18 years of age. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon successful completion of a drug test and background investigation, as well as authorization for the Company to conduct additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. A prior criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment, and the Company will conduct an individualized assessment and reassessment, consistent with applicable law, prior to making any final employment decision.