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Marathon Petroleum

IT Manager - Data Operations and Platforms

On site

Castroville, United states

Full Time

22-10-2025

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Leadership DevOps Monitoring Decision-making CRM Databases power bi Azure Analytics Data Science Databricks

Job Specifications

An exciting career awaits you

At MPC, we're committed to being a great place to work - one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

Position Summary
Analytics & Innovation is on a mission to create trusted and reusable data products that will connect our value chains and support our strategic commitments to the Data Development and Analytics Platform. Our vision of data product strategy moves us to a full value chain mindset across data products where these trusted data assets support the integrated value chains. This is an exciting and challenging time, and we need an experienced and strategic IT Manager to lead our Data and Analytics Platforms Engineering team.

Our Data Development and Analytics Platforms team plays a key role in developing, managing and delivering high-quality, and reusable data products that support enterprise analytics and decision-making. As a Data Platforms Manager, you will lead the delivery, governance, and evolution of enterprise data and analytics platforms supporting business-critical functions. This role ensures platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with evolving business needs. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing modern cloud-based data platforms and a strong understanding of the unique data management challenges and opportunities.

Accountable for business results primarily achieved through the work of others. Manages staff, sets direction, and deploys resources. Has responsibility for employee development, performance reviews, pay reviews, and staffing decisions. Accountable for business, functional or operational areas, processes, or programs.

Key Responsibilities
Lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of data products and solutions on enterprise data and analytics platforms (Like Azure Synapse, MS Purview, Power BI, Databricks, Cognite, etc.).
Translate business priorities to scale and enhance platform capabilities that enable advanced analytics, reporting, and AI/ML solutions. Work with enterprise architects to design and evolve new data integration patterns with source systems (ERP, CRM etc), middleware, and downstream consumers (dashboards, data science) to manage the workloads effectively.
Lead the design, development, and implementation of RPA and Agentic AI solutions to automate business processes, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime of RPA bots and AI agents. Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify automation opportunities, streamline workflows, and ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
Manage the cloud-based Data Operations and Contextualization platform to support the development of use cases for business units. Utilize knowledge graph databases to unify, contextualize, and activate industrial data, ensuring seamless integration and Real Time access to valuable insights.
Oversee the deployment, and monitoring of AI/ML models and platforms, performance through the application of proven DevOps and MLOps frameworks.
Lead cross-functional projects to integrate AI/ML and RPA solutions into business operations, developing project plans and communicate status, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, working with a team of adding Technologists, Pipeline Automation Engineers, Platform Leads, Data Engineers, UI/UX developers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and RPA developers.
Establish monitoring, cost optimization, reliability, and incident management processes for data and analytics pipelines and workloads. Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory requirements (eg, FERC, SOX etc).
Manage external partners, contractors, and platform administrators, coach internal teams on data platform best practices.
Manages the day-to-day operations of a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure assignments are completed in accordance with established guidelines and advice on conflicting priorities.
Understands the overall organizational vision and collaborates with management to set team goals that translate into actionable plans at the team level.
Maintains a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and leads the team through periods of change and transformation.
Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify technology needs and opportunities and works with internal IT groups to provide effective solutions to address business needs. Develops continuous improvement techniques.
Ensures the availability, reliability, and security of technology systems, implementing appropriate measures to protect sensitive information and prevent disruptions.
Plan, resource, and provides direction and technical leadership for IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Manages the department project portfolio effectively through governance and planning processes.
Assists in the development and man

About the Company

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream and midstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product tran... Know more