Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Senior Scrum Master

LocationSan Antonio, TX
Job TypeFull-time

About This Job


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 Information Technology (IT) Scrum Master (SM) is a key role responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of value within the IT organization. This role serves as a servant leader and coach for the Agile teams, facilitating team events and processes, coaching and supporting teams in delivering value.

The SM will have persistent focus on relentless improvement for how MPC uses technology that enables our business. The SM will work closely with Product Owners and product teams. The role will provide daily leadership for the team to ensure alignment of goals and plans, relieving impediments, and most importantly holding teams accountable for delivering commitments and value.

The SM provides transparency to value delivery through open communication with and between Product Owners, delivery teams and other stakeholders. The SM will facilitate collaboration with other product teams, other portfolios, onsite teams, and non-product team members. The SM will ensure visibility of delivery progress, challenges, risks, and successes. The SM is responsible for supporting the organization's portfolios, products, programs, and structured work efforts whilst applying continuous improvement to advance portfolio maturity, increase predictability, and achieve Midstream and MPC goals.

The SM will advance the MPC agile journey by serving as a champion and change-lead for MPC agile transformation. The SM will coach, mentor and promote the use of agile principles, standards and best practices to teams. In the enterprise, the SM will collaborate and contribute to Agile process maturity through the Agile Community of Practice.

A successful candidate will possess exceptional communication skills with particular emphasis on facilitating discussions and driving for consensus, often among the highly diverse participants and interests. A successful candidate must be able to gain trust and build confidence with all team members and senior leadership to establish effective collaboration.


Key Responsibilities

Establishes Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) for multiple teams by creating optimal environments for development and collaboration.
Facilitates team and cross team events to proactively identify stakeholder opportunities and maintain open lines of communication. Proactively coaches and advises Product Owner and people leaders on team configuration and dynamics for optimal delivery.
Monitors project or iteration planning, including setting goals and objectives, defining roles and developing detailed timelines.
Identifies obstacles and impediments or enables the team to remove impediments. Seeks innovative ways to bring out more predictable planning outcomes and goal development in team settings.
Implements team processes, automation, etc. that improves adherence to governance, controls and best practices in Agile delivery or DevSecOps.
Identifies critical team stakeholders, and proactively finds opportunities for them to engage in team events.
Coaches Product Owners and others toward advanced Story and Feature development, including behavior-driven development concepts; story mapping, definitions of done and automation, as appropriate.
Drives Agile Methodology, including iteration planning, refinements, retrospectives, and daily standups for a team or team-of teams.
Adopts and implements Agile mindsets and practices, develops education for the organization on Agile best practices.


Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant experience required
Scaled Agile Scrum Master certification and experience is required
PMP Certification and Waterfall experience is preferred


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.
Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.
Conflict Resolutions - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Continuous Improvement Mindset - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Data Analysis - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Facilitation - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Issue Resolution - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Leadership & Mentoring - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Metrics Reporting - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Risk Management - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Team Management - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
Workflow Optimization - Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.


Location:


San Antonio, Texas


Additional locations:


Findlay, Ohio


Job Requisition ID:


00016820


Location Address:


19100 Ridgewood Pkwy


Education:


Employee Group:


Full time


Employee Subgroup:


Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. 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.


Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

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