Senior Data Engineer — Azure Data Platform & Pipelines

Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Corporation in San Antonio, Texas seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions using Azure data services including Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Databricks.

The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, experience with Spark and orchestration tools, and a mindset of continuous improvement. You will mentor peers and help elevate engineering standards and data governance across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant data engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and optimizes scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions (Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, Databricks).
• Collaborates with analytics, product, architecture, governance, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Mentors junior engineers and contributes to engineering standards and reusable patterns.
• Oversees data quality, security, privacy and testing for data solutions.
• Leads architecture discussions to drive data infrastructure improvements and incident responses.

Skills

Big Data

Cloud Platforms

Data Governance

Data Integration

Data Modeling

Data Security

NoSQL

Real Time Processing

DevOps

Metadata Management

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Corporation in San Antonio, Texas seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions using Azure data services including Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Databricks.

The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, experience with Spark and orchestration tools, and a mindset of continuous improvement. You will mentor peers and help elevate engineering standards and data governance across teams.