Lead Solution Architect (Finance)

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • San Antonio, TX

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About The Position

The Lead Solution Architect is a senior individual contributor who shapes end-to-end solutions for complex initiatives across 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 set solution direction, evaluate trade-offs and risks, clarify dependencies and ownership, and align solutions with business and technology needs. The role calls for business-domain and technical expertise in 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 through reusable patterns, improved standards and tools, mentoring, and connecting enterprise architecture strategy to delivery decisions. The position is based in San Antonio, Texas, with additional listed locations in Findlay, Ohio, and Houston, Texas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant IT experience, including five or more years of relevant architecture experience.
• Analytical thinking and strong 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.
• Business acumen and ability to link decisions and recommendations to MPC’s business, industry, marketplace, and strategy.
• Functional expertise across relevant technologies, platforms, and systems, such as networking, databases, cloud computing, and security.
• Solution architecture skills, including designing integrated solutions to meet business needs.
• Strategic outlook and systems thinking.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology, cloud computing, DevSecOps, big data analytics, process orchestration, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Internet of Things concepts.

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 clear 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, collaborating with business stakeholders, Enterprise and System Architects, and partners across Product Management, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Finance, Supply Chain, vendors, and service owners.
• Define and enforce solution architecture standards, integration patterns, and governance practices that promote consistency, interoperability, and future-readiness.
• Define and maintain solution intent, including interfaces and contracts, authoritative data sources, constraints, measurable quality attributes, dependency order, enablers, and design freedom delegated to engineering teams.
• Mentor and develop solution and system architects and implementation teams, including DevSecOps, Product teams, and hybrid cloud teams.
• Shape strategic roadmaps and business capability models to support long-term enterprise objectives and competitive differentiation.
• Frame key decisions by establishing business outcomes, accountable owners, affected landscapes, credible options, material assumptions, unresolved questions, and evidence needed for investment or delivery decisions.
• Identify and mitigate solution-level risks, using emerging technologies and architectural foresight to support resilience, compliance, and adaptability.
• Guide implementation teams through material cross-system decisions, assess 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.

Benefits

• 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