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Your ability to empower, challenge, and coach senior technology leaders, and your passion for problem-solving and creating innovative solutions, will be crucial in delivering the next generation of software and services.\nWhat you will deliver\nDesign sophisticated software and services that provide strategic impact. You’ll write design documents that define the future and review them with your platform engineering and architecture peers, incorporating and quickly iterating on the feedback\nProvide technical leadership to the engineering teams in delivery of your suite of software and services to production\nYou’ll work closely with partner teams to help evolve their systems to make all of our software, platform and services more re-usable and resilient\nPartner closely with multi-functional teams including product management, data science, and UX design\nHire and develop others by mentoring junior software engineers and peers, and proactively sharing your expertise and interests with others\nStay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends\nSet strategy and establish standard methodologies for platform engineering\nInspire and mobilize a team of engineers to achieve project goals\nCollaborate with multi-functional teams to identify and resolve software-related issues\nSupport internal and external audit teams to prepare for and participate in security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, ensuring that all necessary documentation and evidence is available and accurate\nCollaborate with multi-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks\nMonitor regulatory developments and industry trends to ensure that the organization stays up-to-date on emerging compliance requirements\nWhat you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)\nTechnical skills we need from you\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience\nAuthority in problem-solving, with the ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and develop creative and effective solutions\nAuthority in the ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and work independently and as part of a team\nExcellent communication skills and ability to communicate with your peers through to senior leaders.\nYou should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what you’re doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions\nSelf-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done\nSoftware skills\nAuthority in Claude Code or similar and at least one programming language (C#, Python, or TypeScript) developing cross-platform solutions.\nValidated experience in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects\nValidated hands on experience in systems design\nExpertise in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects\nDemonstrable experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering\nHands on experience & expertise in softwarevstandard methodology practices & best practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations\nExpert in designing and building complex software systems end-to-end which have been optimally delivered and operated in production. You should understand security and privacy best practices as well as how to properly monitor, log, and alarm production systems\nInfrastructure skills\nExpert in building and scaling infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure\nExpert in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless\nExpert in solving large-scale distributed production systems\nDemonstrable experience supporting production systems. You’ll have supported these production systems through on-call rotations\nDatabase skills\nMaster knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value\nMaster ability in data modeling and database design\nMaster ability in SQL\nSkills that set you apart\nBackground in building solutions for corporate functions e.g. HR, Legal, Corporate Affairs etc.\nPossess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills\nYou have a product-centric mindset that you use to understand business needs. You have the technical and interpersonal skills to collaboratively design scalable systems and engineering solutions that meet those needs\nYou employ strong senses of empathy and curiosity to build the best possible experiences for the users of your products\nYou focus on delighting customers with amazing user experiences and customer service\nYou are comfortable operating in an environment that is loosely coupled but tightly aligned toward a shared vision\nYou are a self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams, ideally with remote or hybrid teams\nWhat does success look like?\nYou will have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive digital technology platforms and service and look to future challenges\nYou will understand our customers and the impact our product has on their lives\nYou will make contributions to the wider digital technology goals of the company\nYou will inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued\nYou will help us scale-up and build world class digital platforms that bring energy to tens of millions of customers\nWhat you get back?\nThe ability to choose your own path to success - You will have the freedom to define how the technology is built together as a multi-discipline product team\nThe freedom to have real impact - engineers and managers at bp are trusted with a high degree of autonomy, you’re not a cog in the machine\nThe opportunity to inspire teams across bp globally\nAbout bp\nOur 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!\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\nWe support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.\nThere 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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.\nTravel Requirement\nUp to 10% travel should be expected with this roleRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is eligible for relocation within countryRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingSkills:\nAgility core practices, Agility core practices, API and platform design, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modeling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development {+ 7 more}.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. 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