BP jobs in Brighton and Hove

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

LNG Physical Trading Business is at the heart of the BP Trading activities. The application eco-system caters to different personas empowering them and their teams to plan and implement BP’s LNG trading activity. The applications include various bespoke solutions supporting Trade capture, Operations, Analytics, Risk, Reporting and Finance.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to lead, design, develop and maintain the digital products in our LNG Energy Trading and Risk Management landscape.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work closely with other software engineers, product managers, ux designers, data analysts and scientists and our business partners. You will actively participate in feature development, performance enhancements and offering technical support to other teams.

Key accountabilities:

• Design sophisticated backend components, services, platforms, and Restful APIs for seamless communication with the front end.

• Design front-end components and seamless integration with the back-end systems, facilitating smooth data exchange.

• Design pipelines to ingest data and monitoring of the datasets.

• Continuously reviewing the services and components and seeking opportunities for improvements.

• Identifying and addressing Tech Debt.

• Influencing and delivering the product roadmap to improve our Key Performance Indicators and deliver tangible business value.

• Developing the team’s Software Engineering and Data Analytical skills.

• Owning the team’s culture and ways of working, instilling a care for high quality code and tests and for implementing best practices.

• Hands on development in Python, SQL, and C#.

• Mentoring and Line management.

You will work closely with key business users and stakeholders. You will work directly with other Tech Leads, Architects on the evolution of the current technology platform and the long-term strategy and roadmap.

This unique role is well positioned to create substantial value for the business and requires an individual with the right mix of software engineering, Data engineering and communication skills.

Essential Education:

• Bachelor / master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Proven experience on planlogic EOS ETRM and Palantir Foundry

• Demonstrated ability in IT industry with experience in designing, planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting solutions.

• Proven experience designing, building and transforming big data in Palantir (Code repositories, contour, workshop)

• Experienced in leading a team of data engineers in an agile environment, using scrums, tasks, prioritisation.

• Own scheduling and ingestion using products like Stonebranch (UAC) and AWS.

• Well versed in Software Engineering development techniques.

• Strong communication skills to translate business requirements independently to build full data workflow, from ingestion to presentation layer.

• Strong Software Engineering Design capabilities and understanding of Computational Complexity.

• Strive for excellence and continuous improvement in software architecture, software delivery and best practices.

• Hands on experience in C#, OOP python, Spark /PySpark and other C#, Python framework ecosystem.

• Debug and resolve issues in large datasets quickly.

• Co-ordinating handoffs between different time zones and allocating priorities to dev team.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience in other Trading systems or ETRMs (Energy Trading & Risk Management).

• Operational experience of running business critical systems.

• Experience with DevOps: working with AWS, Azure DevOps in a Linux environment.

• Experience with PowerBi and business analysis

• Experience with market data (Trayport, Ice, etc)

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Business modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Data design, Digital Analytics, Emerging technology monitoring, Information Assurance, Integration, IT Management, IT strategy and planning, Network Design, Requirements definition and management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Solution Architecture, Systems Development Management, Technical specialism, User Experience Analysis

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Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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