Senior Data Operations Engineer

At MPC were 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.

Data Analytics and AI is advancing Marathon Petroleums data ecosystem through trusted governed and reusable data products that enable faster decisions operational excellence and AI-driven innovation. The Senior Data Operations Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the reliability scalability security and performance of MPCs enterprise data platforms. This role leads platform modernization automation and operational excellence across Data Engineering Platform Engineering SRE FinOps Governance and Data Product Operations with emphasis on cloud-native platforms including Databricks Azure Cognite streaming technologies observability solutions and enterprise integrations. The successful candidate will establish standards improve reliability optimize platform performance mentor engineers and partner across Architecture Engineering Security Governance and Business teams to deliver scalable secure and high-performing data platform capabilities.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility competency and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidates experience and qualifications.

• Leads platform scalability and performance tuning initiatives.
• Mentors less experienced team members in best operational practices.
• Collaborates with architects to design resilient and robust platforms.
• Drives the resolution of critical platform issues.
• Engages with vendors and partners for platform solutions and enhancements.
• Implements robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Participates in strategic planning for platform growth and evolution.
• Drives the adoption of new technologies and tools for platform operations.
• Ensures compliance with industry regulations related to data storage and operations.
• Engages with stakeholders to understand and cater to their platform needs.
• Platform Engineering Reliability & Automation
  • Standardize reusable infrastructure patterns with IaC CI/CD and DevOps practices.
  • Create self-service provisioning and deployment workflows to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
  • Establish reusable engineering standards templates and operating frameworks.
  • Strengthen observability through telemetry standards runbooks incident response and root cause analysis.
  • Define readiness criteria and improvement practices for production platform services.
• Cloud & Data Platform Management
  • Operate enterprise platforms across Databricks Azure Lakehouse streaming integration observability and Cognite.
  • Translate architecture standards into operating patterns for scalable analytics and AI workloads.
• Security Performance & Governance
  • Embed security resiliency compliance and governance controls into platform operations.
  • Analyze capacity utilization workload and cost drivers with Cybersecurity and FinOps partners.
  • Define and manage KPIs SLAs SLOs and platform health metrics.
• Technical Leadership
  • Provide senior technical direction for operations standards adoption and engineering execution.
  • Facilitate reviews and technical decisions for complex platform scenarios.
  • Advance maturity by codifying lessons learned and promoting consistent practices across Data Engineering and Platforms teams.

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology related field or equivalent experience required.
• Five (5) or more years of relevant experience required.
• Senior-level experience in data engineering platform engineering cloud engineering or platform operations preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
• Experience operating mission-critical analytics and data platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading platform modernization and automation initiatives.
• Experience supporting production environments with high availability requirements.

• Data Classification - Knowledge of the process of formally grouping Configuration Items by type e.g. software hardware documentation environment application. Knowledge of the process of formally identifying Changes by type e.g. project scope change request corrective change request innovative function change request technical infrastructure change request. And knowledge of the process of formally identifying Incidents Problems and Known Errors by origin symptoms and cause.
• Data Cleansing - Data scrubbing also called data cleansing is the process of amending or removing data in a database that is incorrect incomplete improperly formatted or duplicated.
• Data Ethics - Knowledge of ethical considerations related to data usage data-driven technologies and strategies to mitigate biases in data-driven decision-making.
• Data Governance - Ability to establish and oversee a set of procedures policies and standards that ensure the effective and efficient management of an organizations data assets. This includes ensuring data quality compliance with relevant laws and regulations and secure data handling practices. It also involves the coordination between different departments to ensure that data is accurate accessible and used responsibly and ethically.
• Data Governance Communication - Data governance communication involves the effective dissemination of policies guidelines and best practices related to the management and use of data within an organization. It aims to ensure clear understanding compliance and collaboration among stakeholders fostering a culture of responsible and consistent data practices.
• Data Governance Framework - Proficiency in implementing and managing data governance frameworks policies and standards to ensure data quality integrity and compliance.
• Data Governance Tools - Familiarity with data governance tools and technologies that facilitate data management metadata management and data governance workflows.
• Data Privacy - Ability to understand and implement practices that ensure the protection and confidential handling of personal and sensitive information. This includes knowledge of relevant laws and regulations (such as GDPR or HIPAA) the ability to design and enforce policies that safeguard data and the skills to manage data access rights and consent protocols.
• Data Quality Management - Strong understanding of data quality dimensions methodologies and best practices to establish and maintain data quality standards and processes.
• Data Stewardship - Proficiency in data stewardship practices including data classification metadata management data lineage and data lifecycle management.
• Identity Access Management (IAM) - Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework of business processes policies and technologies that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities ensuring that the right users have the appropriate access to technology resources.
• Master Data Management (MDM) - Master Data Management (MDM) is a method of managing and organizing an organizations critical data to ensure consistency accuracy and coherence across various systems. It involves establishing a single authoritative source for key data entities such as customer information product details and other essential business data.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelors Degree in Information Technology related field or equivalent experience.
5 years of relevant experience

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