An exciting career awaits you

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.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced, and strategic Senior Software Engineer to be a leader within our Software Development Team in the Refining IT organization. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in Software Development, strong Azure development skills, DevSecOps knowledge, and a deep understanding of application security best practices. Additionally, excellent leadership and strong communication skills are essential. This role demands an influencer who champions Software Development best practices, continuous improvement, and automation. The successful candidate will drive innovation within the department and ensure our development processes are efficient, secure, and modern.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Champions continuous improvement mindset and automation of software engineering processes.
• Drives process excellence and innovative Software Engineering by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risk, and making timely decisions within scope of responsibility.
• Mentors less experienced team members and accelerates software engineering maturity by modeling and encouraging ongoing learning and self-development.
• Leads efforts from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically; leads medium complexity features from technical design through completion.
• Executes a defined software engineering roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
• Performs coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process in projects with moderate to high complexity under limited or no supervision.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.
• Conducts demos of application features and designs features to support automated testability. Conducts research, design and prototyping and experience on a cross-functional team.
• Works with users to translate designs and solution architecture into design specifications within Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Organizes the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions or deliverables, setting effort estimates and continuously collaborating and updating the specifications, in line with user requirements.
• Coordinates and implements new architectures, standards, methods and logic for enterprise software in accordance with business strategies and specifications.
• Partners with Refining IT architecture organization to efficiently and effectively design, modernize, and implement applications.
• Ensures proper documentation of software design and works with business partners to design and implement solutions to meet architecture standards.
• Designs and develops reusable software components to accelerate delivery timelines and drive efficiency, while effectively influencing teams to adopt and integrate them into their workflows.
• Communicates ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field required.
• 5+ years of experience in application and software development is required.
• Experience as a full-stack developer with a strong focus on the Microsoft technology stack, including C#, Blazor, MudBlazor, .NET Core, .NET Framework (4.7 and 4.8), Entity Framework Core (EF Core), and Microsoft SQL Server. Proficiency in Azure cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for building Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, and unit testing is highly preferred.
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies, software release management, and DevSecOps principles, practices, and pipelines is preferred.
• AZ-900 and AZ-204 Certifications are a plus.

Skills

• Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Application Security – Refers to the measures and practices implemented to protect software applications from security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Continuous Improve