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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.

Analytics & Innovation is on a mission to create trusted and reusable data products that will connect our value chains and support our strategic commitments to the Data Development and Analytics Platform. Our vision of data product strategy moves us to a full value chain mindset across data products where these trusted data assets support the integrated value chains. This is an exciting and challenging time, and we need an experienced and strategic IT Manager to lead our Data and Analytics Platforms Engineering team.

Our Data Development and Analytics Platforms team plays a key role in developing, managing and delivering high-quality, and reusable data products that support enterprise analytics and decision-making. As a Data Platforms Manager, you will lead the delivery, governance, and evolution of enterprise data and analytics platforms supporting business-critical functions. This role ensures platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with evolving business needs. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing modern cloud-based data platforms and a strong understanding of the unique data management challenges and opportunities.

Accountable for business results primarily achieved through the work of others. Manages staff, sets direction, and deploys resources. Has responsibility for employee development, performance reviews, pay reviews, and staffing decisions. Accountable for business, functional or operational areas, processes, or programs.

• Lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of data products and solutions on enterprise data and analytics platforms (Like Azure Synapse, MS Purview, Power BI, Databricks, Cognite, etc.).
• Translate business priorities to scale and enhance platform capabilities that enable advanced analytics, reporting, and AI/ML solutions. Work with enterprise architects to design and evolve new data integration patterns with source systems (ERP, CRM etc), middleware, and downstream consumers (dashboards, data science) to manage the workloads effectively.
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of RPA and Agentic AI solutions to automate business processes, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime of RPA bots and AI agents. Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify automation opportunities, streamline workflows, and ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Manage the cloud-based Data Operations and Contextualization platform to support the development of use cases for business units. Utilize knowledge graph databases to unify, contextualize, and activate industrial data, ensuring seamless integration and real-time access to valuable insights.
• Oversee the deployment, and monitoring of AI/ML models and platforms, performance through the application of proven DevOps and MLOps frameworks.
• Lead cross-functional projects to integrate AI/ML and RPA solutions into business operations, developing project plans and communicate status, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, working with a team of adding Technologists, Pipeline Automation Engineers , Platform Leads, Data Engineers, UI/UX developers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and RPA developers.
• Establish monitoring, cost optimization, reliability, and incident management processes for data and analytics pipelines and workloads. Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FERC, SOX etc).
• Manage external partners, contractors, and platform administrators, coach internal teams on data platform best practices.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure assignments are completed in accordance with established guidelines and advice on conflicting priorities.
• Understands the overall organizational vision and collaborates with management to set team goals that translate into actionable plans at the team level.
• Maintains a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and leads the team through periods of change and transformation.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify technology needs and opportunities and works with internal IT groups to provide effective solutions to address business needs. Develops continuous improvement techniques.
• Ensures the availability, reliability, and security of technology systems, implementing appropriate measures to protect sensitive information and prevent disruptions.
• Plan, resource, and provides direction and technical leadership for IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Manages the department project portfolio effectively through governance and planning processes.
• Assists in the development and management of the department budget, tracking expenses, and ensures that resources are allocated effectively to meet business requirements.
• Stays abreast of the latest technology trends, industry advancements, and regulatory changes, and makes recommendations for adopting new technologies to improve operational efficiency.
• Assesses and identifies technology needs and opportunities, making recommendations for system enhancements, upgrades, or replacements. Continuously seeks opportunities to optimize processes and workflows.
• Partners with leadership to develop strong business cases for technology initiatives.
• Assists in the development of IT policies, procedures, and standards that are in line with area of responsibility and industry standards. Ensures compliance with established policies, procedures, and standards.
• Responsible for recruitment, development, retention, performance management of talent to meet needs of the business.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
• 10+ years of diversified IT experience required.
• 3+ years of experience leading professional staff required.

• 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.
• 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.
• Results Driven - Drives operational and process excellence and innovative behavior by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risks, making timely decisions, and holding people accountable for results.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Energizing the Organization - Creates a purposeful, engaged, optimistic workforce.
• Ongoing Learning & Self-Development - Regularly determines new areas for learning and acquires strategies and best practices for gaining/improving knowledge, behaviors, and skills.
• Selecting and Developing People - Recognizes and selects high caliber talent, accurately assesses abilities and potential, coaches to develop capabilities and builds high- performing teams.

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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required
10+ years of diversified IT experience
3+ years leading professional staff

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