Lead Scrum Master

4500 Marathon Petroleum Company LP; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401k matching program

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP in Findlay, OH seeks a seasoned Scrum Master to drive Agile transformation within the Digital Product Delivery Services group. You will coach teams, remove impediments, and collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to deliver value.

Responsibilities include facilitating PI planning, aligning objectives, and promoting best practices across teams to ensure timely delivery and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field.
• 7+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• Experience leading Agile teams and program delivery.

Responsibilities

• Establishes Agile practices for multiple teams and optimize development environments.
• Facilitates coordination across teams, PO, delivery partners, and stakeholders to manage dependencies and PI planning.
• Coaches Product Owners to strengthen backlog health and improve dependency management.
• Partners with RTEs and portfolio managers to align with larger refining objectives.
• Leads team ceremonies, mentors Product Management, and drives Agile adoption across the organization.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Facilitation

Coaching

Leadership

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Mgmt

Team Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Position Summary

Position Summary The Scrum Master position within the Digital Product Delivery Services group is a critical delivery role focused on driving digital transformation across MPC. The Scrum Master may support either the Refining IT or Corporate Functions IT organizations, aligning to the business area they are assigned to support. 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 Scrum Master in Refining Digital will have a persistent focus on relentless improvement in how MPC uses technology that enables our business. The SM will work closely with Product Owners and other product teams. The role will provide daily guidance to the team to ensure alignment of goals and objectives, remove impediments, and, most importantly, hold teams accountable for delivering commitments and value.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) for multiple teams that may be more complex by creating optimal environments for development and collaboration.
• Oversees specific project or team schedules, tasks, and resource requirements; Coaches, facilitates, and may participate in decision-making for resourcing multiple teams or teams-of-teams.
• Program Delivery Facilitation: Facilitates coordination across multiple Agile teams, Product Owners, delivery partners, and stakeholders to manage dependencies, support Program Increment (PI) planning, elevate delivery risks, and promote alignment toward shared business objectives.
• Cross-Team & Scaled Coordination: Partners with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Portfolio Managers, and external vendor teams to sync interdependencies during Program Increment (PI) planning and ensure alignment with MPC's broader refining objectives.
• Product Owner Partnership: Collaborates closely with Product Owners to strengthen backlog health, assist in story mapping, and streamline dependency management without direct reporting ownership.
• Organizes, conducts, and promotes communications on behalf of large groups and teams of teams to leadership and strategic partners; Facilitates large teams-of-teams events.
• Guides proactive planning routines and events for teams and teams-of-teams.
• Ensures adherence to large-scale planning and goal-setting methods to define roles and develop detailed timelines.
• Identifies opportunities to proactively reduce risk through new processes, procedures, automation, etc, while upholding Agile principles.
• Shares best practices across the area, department, or company.
• Identifies critical stakeholders across multiple teams or departments; proactively forms trusted partnerships for collaboration on development, risk, value, etc.
• Leads and influences best practices in team documentation, shares approaches across multiple areas, and trains and mentors Product Management, Product Owners, etc.
• Acts as Coach to teams, teams-of-teams, and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices to deliver value to customers by partnering with product teams and removing obstacles, facilitating ceremonies and running backlogs.
• Develops an Agile maturity roadmap and offers ongoing coaching and support toward Agile adoption.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required. Seven (7) or more years of relevant Scrum Master experience required.

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 Resolution – Ability to manage conflict and competing priorities among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Data Analysis – The process of measuring and managing organizational data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyses.
• Facilitation – Facilitation is the means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently. Particular focus is on meetings but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved, and their participation is critical to success.
• Issue Resolution – The process of addressing problems that need to be solved, the decisions that need to be made, and the risks that need to be mitigated.
• Leadership & Mentoring – Ability to show leadership and influence people in an effort to accomplish team goals. Transfer knowledge through guidance and 'hands‑on' experiences centered around a person's goal of learning job procedures, content, standards, analysis and problem-solving.
• Metrics Reporting – Metrics reporting involves the systematic collection, analysis, and presentation of quantifiable data to evaluate the performance or progress of a specific process, project, or system. It serves as a valuable tool for informed decision‑making and continuous improvement by providing insights into key indicators and trends.
• Risk Management – The development of policies, procedures, and technologies to mitigate threats from malicious actors and reduce information technology vulnerabilities.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high-quality software.
• Team Management – Ability to organize, gain the involvement of, and manage diverse work groups and/or task forces to accomplish specific project or unit goals.
• Workflow Optimization – The process of improving an existing workflow, by reducing operating costs or improving the efficiency of work done.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of relevant scrum master experience.

Location

Findlay OH Main Bldg Additional locations: San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID

00024056

Location Address

539 S Main St

Education

Bachelors

Employee Group

Full time

Employee Subgroup

Regular

Benefits

• access to health insurance
• vision insurance
• dental insurance
• paid time off
• 401k matching program
• paid parental leave
• educational reimbursement
• discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.

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 [e-mail]. 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.

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.

About Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.