Lead Enterprise Architect

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

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About The Position

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: The Digital Workplace (DWP) Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a strategic role in shaping and evolving the enterprise digital workplace by deeply understanding the relationships between people, processes, platforms, and intelligent technologies. This role is responsible for defining and governing current and future-state architectures that align with enterprise strategy, with a strong emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Agents and Agentic AI patterns, Microsoft Power Platform, M365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams Rooms, endpoint management and workforce mobility solutions. The Digital Workplace EA partners closely with business and IT leadership to drive a modern, intelligent, and secure digital workplace ecosystem. This includes advancing AI-powered collaboration, autonomous and semi-autonomous agent capabilities, meeting room and hybrid collaboration experiences, and mobile-first productivity across the enterprise. The role ensures architecture decisions clearly articulate business value, risk, and strategic outcomes, while enabling innovation at scale. The EA will lead the creation of Digital Workplace strategies, roadmaps, and reference architectures that incorporate AI-driven user experiences, intelligent automation, and modern collaboration and mobility platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and technology standards. The role also facilitates design sessions and architecture reviews to define a clear future vision and architecture runway for the Digital Workplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience required
• Eight (8) or more years of relevant IT experience, or relevant Techno-functional experience, including five (5) or more years of relevant architecture experience required.
• One (1) to two (2) years experience using DWP and AI-enabled solutions, integrating user experience, data-driven insights, and business objectives required.
• Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.
• 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.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions), and self-correction. AI encompasses a broad range of techniques and approaches, including machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and expert systems, among others. The ultimate goal of AI is to create machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing patterns, making decisions, and solving problems.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
• Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Data Modeling - Skill in designing and implementing data models that align with business requirements, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability.
• Digital Transformation - Digital Transformation is the adoption of digital technology to transform services or businesses, through replacing non-digital or manual processes with digital processes or replacing older digital technology with newer digital technology.
• Functional Expertise - A strong understanding of various technologies, platforms, and systems relevant to the organization's architecture, such as networking, databases, cloud computing, and security.
• Machine Learning - Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer science that involves the development of algorithms and statistical models that enable computers to progressively improve their performance on a specific task through learning from data, without being explicitly programmed. In essence, machine learning algorithms learn from patterns and relationships in data to make predictions, decisions, or identify patterns, often with the goal of optimizing some objective function or improving performance over time.
• Process Orchestration - Process orchestration refers to the coordination and management of various tasks, activities, and resources within a workflow or business process. It involves organizing, sequencing, and automating individual tasks or sub-processes to ensure that the overall process operates smoothly and efficiently. Process orchestration typically involves integrating disparate systems, applications, and services to streamline operations and improve collaboration across different parts of an organization. It often employs workflow management tools, automation software, and integration platforms to facilitate communication, data exchange, and decision-making among different components of the process. The goal of process orchestration is to optimize the flow of work, minimize delays and bottlenecks, and enhance overall productivity and performance.
• Strategic Outlook - Examines issues, generates ideas, creates future scenarios and develops plans with a long-term perspective. Ensures short-term goals support long-term strategy and that organizational/functional strategy aligns with and supports MPC’s overall business strategy.
• Systems Thinking - The ability to analyze complex systems and understand their interdependencies, considering both technical and business aspects, to develop comprehensive and scalable architectures.
• Secure by Design – Security is embedded by default into architecture and engineering decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of Microsoft ecosystem, including Intune, Entra ID, Copilot, Power Platform, Collaboration preferred.
• Familiarity with Architecture Frameworks, Governance, and Principles highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and implementation of enterprise architecture standards and guidelines.
• Participates in and leads architecture reviews and ensures architecture adherence.
• Collaborates with executive management to influence and shape strategic initiatives.
• Defines and drives the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Leads the identification of disruptive forces and investment guidance.
• Conducts trend analysis and provides strategic direction.
• Provides a framework for architectural decision-making, including assessment of technology options.
• Assesses and mitigates risks associated with enterprise architecture decisions.
• Leading the resolution of complex architectural challenges and conflicts.
• Oversees innovation tracking and management.
• Monitors industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for architectural innovation.
• Guides the analysis of business and operating models.
• Takes charge of constructing future-state business models.
• Drives analysis of future-state capabilities and organizational requirements.
• Integrates emerging technologies effectively.
• Develops and manages implementation plans for the portfolio.
• Guides and mentors other architects and teams on enterprise architecture principles and practices.
• Leads collaboration with business architects and leaders.
• Ensures alignment and coordination of architecture activities.
• Presents comprehensive IT investment roadmaps and gap analyses.

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level