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Position Summary
Data, Analytics and AI is advancing Marathon Petroleum’s data ecosystem through trusted, governed, and reusable data products that enable faster decisions, operational excellence, and AI-driven innovation. The Senior Systems Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the architecture, technology strategy, and design standards that support MPC’s enterprise data and analytics platforms. This role drives architectural vision, platform modernization, and technology roadmaps across Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, AI, Governance, and Enterprise Integration domains, with emphasis on cloud-native technologies including Databricks, Azure, Cognite, streaming platforms, observability solutions, and enterprise data services.
The successful candidate will establish architectural principles and standards, guide solution design and technology selection, ensure scalability, security, reliability, and interoperability across platforms, and partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, Security, Governance, and Business teams to deliver sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready data and AI capabilities. This individual serves as a trusted advisor, providing technical leadership, mentoring architects and engineers, and aligning technology investments with enterprise business objectives.
This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
Assists in designing governance and standards activities for technology architecture compliance. Participates in hardware and software technology and product standards selection. Participates and contributes in system architect reviews and ensures architecture adherence.
Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure system architecture alignment with business objectives. Identifies organizational and financial impacts of technology architecture.
Evaluates and selects appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks for systems. Assesses technology industry and market trends and their impact on the enterprise. Evaluates technology options and advises on technology investment decisions.
Analyzes and translates business and technical requirements into system designs.
Designs and implements end-to-end system architectures that meet business requirements.
Defines system integration approaches and ensures interoperability of system components. Provides guidance and support to development teams during system implementation. Leads technology change initiatives to deliver business outcomes. May oversee technology implementation and modification activities.
Documents and communicates technology architecture design and analysis work.
Leads the development of system architecture documentation and diagrams.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent computer-related degree from an accredited college or university required.
Five (5) or more years of relevant IT experience, including two (2) or more years of relevant architecture experience required.
Skills
Agile Methodology – Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
Architecture Frameworks – Proficiency in widely used architecture frameworks like TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or Zachman Framework to structure and organize architectural artifacts and processes.
Authentic Communicator – Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly.…