Lead Scrum Master

About the role

The Scrum Master position within the Refining IT aligned Digital Product Delivery Services group is a critical delivery role focused on driving digital transformation across the refining 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 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. 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 candidate’s experience and qualifications.

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, escalate 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.