Lead Solution Architect (Finance)

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Solution Architect is a senior individual contributor responsible for shaping end-to-end solutions for complex initiatives spanning business processes, data, applications, integrations, cloud services, security, and operations. Anchored in the Corporate Functions Order-to-Cash domain, the role partners with product and business leaders from early planning through implementation to define solution direction, evaluate trade-offs and risks, clarify dependencies and ownership, and ensure alignment with business and technology needs.

The position calls for business-domain and technical expertise across areas including Order-to-Cash, customer and master data, commercial and operational processes, regulatory compliance, SAP S/4, SAP MDG, automation, and enterprise integrations. The architect works across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Data and Analytics, and operational functions to translate business needs into scalable solutions with clear data ownership, integrations, controls, and measurable outcomes. The role also strengthens the architecture practice by developing reusable patterns, improving architecture standards and tools, mentoring others, and connecting enterprise architecture strategy to delivery decisions.

The role is based in San Antonio, Texas, with additional locations in Findlay, Ohio, and Houston, Texas. It is a regular full-time position with Marathon Petroleum Company LP.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant IT experience, including five or more years of relevant architecture experience.
• Strong business-domain and technical expertise across areas such as Order-to-Cash, customer and master data, commercial and operational processes, regulatory compliance, SAP S/4, SAP MDG, automation, and enterprise integrations.
• Agile methodology knowledge.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose solutions.
• Clear and credible verbal and written communication, active listening, and constructive dialogue skills.
• Business acumen and ability to link decisions and recommendations to organizational strategy.
• Knowledge of cloud services, cloud application development, and cloud architecture.
• Functional expertise in technologies and platforms relevant to architecture, such as networking, databases, cloud computing, and security.
• Solution architecture skills, including designing comprehensive solutions that integrate components, technologies, and processes.
• Strategic outlook and systems thinking.
• Skills or knowledge listed in the posting include artificial intelligence, big data analytics, DevSecOps, Internet of Things, machine learning, process orchestration, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in energy, manufacturing, logistics, commercial, refining, pipeline, or other operationally complex and regulated environments.
• Experience establishing or maturing an architecture practice through reusable patterns, standards, guardrails, governance mechanisms, knowledge management, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
• Experience carrying architecture through delivery and operation, including solution intent, measurable non-functional requirements, interface and data contracts, architecture decision records, material change assessment, and as-built verification.
• Experience supporting portfolio and product decision-making, including option analysis, technology and vendor evaluation, architecture trade-offs, roadmap and dependency shaping, investment inputs, and risk communication to business and technology leaders.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex, enterprise-scale initiatives spanning multiple systems, business capabilities, data domains, integration patterns, cloud or SaaS platforms, and organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Support architectural governance and compliance and contribute to defining principles, guidelines, and standards.
• Participate in solution architecture reviews and ensure architecture adherence, including developing and applying reusable patterns, decision trees, guardrails, and standing decisions with defined applicability, exceptions, ownership, status, provenance, and review expectations.
• Design and lead enterprise-scale solution architectures spanning multiple systems or platforms, aligned with business goals, technical strategy, and enterprise architecture.
• Own the complete solution thread across business process change, applications, data, integration, identity, security, infrastructure, cloud and SaaS services, operational technology boundaries where applicable, service transition, vendor commitments, and retirement impacts.
• Architect solutions for major modernization initiatives that improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Serve as the primary lead architectural advisor for cross-functional solution delivery, working with business stakeholders, Enterprise and System Architects, Product Management, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Finance, Supply Chain, vendors, and service owners.
• Define and maintain solution intent, including interfaces and contracts, authoritative data sources, constraints, measurable quality attributes, dependency order, enablers, and the design freedom delegated to engineering teams.
• Define and enforce solution architecture standards, integration patterns, and governance practices that promote consistency, interoperability, and future-readiness across business units.
• Mentor and develop solution and system architects and implementation teams, fostering innovation, technical excellence, and business-technology alignment.
• Shape strategic roadmaps and business capability models to support long-term enterprise objectives and competitive differentiation.
• Frame key decisions by establishing the business outcome, accountable owner, affected landscape, credible options, material assumptions, unresolved questions, and evidence required for investment or delivery decisions.
• Identify and mitigate solution-level risks, incorporating emerging technologies and architectural foresight to support resilience, compliance, and adaptability.
• Guide implementation teams through material cross-system decisions, evaluate departures from approved intent, make consequences visible, and route decisions to accountable business, product, domain, security, data, or technology owners.
• Orchestrate options assessments, architecture decision records, solution briefs, solution intent, non-functional requirements, interface contracts, change records, and as-built verification for complex initiatives, avoiding documentation that does not enable, change, or preserve a decision.

Benefits

• Access to health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) matching program
• Paid parental leave
• Educational reimbursement
• Eligibility for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program

What This Job Offers

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