Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
As a Staff Enterprise Technology Engineer (Technical Lead), you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable serverless solutions that support bp’s Regulatory Reporting landscape. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and resilience of critical reporting platforms that underpin bp’s global regulatory obligations.
In this role, you will provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers and support specialists, driving engineering excellence, solution quality, and guidelines across the development lifecycle. Working closely with the Product Owner, Delivery Lead, and Solution Architect, you will supply to technical strategy, architecture, and solution design while remaining actively involved in hands-on development and delivery.
You will bring deep technical expertise across the full technology stack, lead the implementation of complex solutions, mentor engineers, and support the continuous improvement of platforms and processes to ensure the successful delivery of business and regulatory outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive the technical vision, solution design, and engineering standards for the team.
Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions.
Remain hands-on with software development, contributing high-quality code, reviewing pull requests, and leading the implementation of complex technical solutions.
Make key technical decisions, provide guidance on complex engineering challenges, and act as the primary technical escalation point.
Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory, and operational standards.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and Delivery Leads to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and prioritization.
Translate business requirements into well-structured technical deliverables and remove technical impediments to ensure predictable delivery.
Drive the adoption of engineering standards, including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps.
Champion the use of AI-enabled engineering practices to improve developer productivity, software quality, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, establishing standards and governance for their responsible adoption.
Ensure delivery of high-quality software through robust engineering practices, quality controls, and continuous improvement.
Promote platform reliability, performance, scalability, operational resilience, reuse of common components, and reduction of technical debt.
Coach, mentor, and develop software and support engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and service improvement initiatives to maintain stable and reliable production services.
Support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and operational excellence across the technology landscape.
Know the latest with advancements in cloud technologies, software engineering practices, and AI capabilities, applying them to continuously improve the platform and ways of working.
Required Skills and Experience
Expert-level proficiency in SQL, with extensive hands-on experience across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MySQL.
Strong experience designing and developing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, and database objects.
Proven expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, and solving data-related issues.
Solid experience designing, implementing, and supporting ETL processes, data pipelines, and large-scale data integration solutions.
Professional experience developing cloud-native, serverless solutions on AWS using Python.
Hands-on experience building and supporting integration solutions using APIs, file-based integrations, web services, and event-driven architectures.
Experience developing and deploying applications using AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, AWS Glue, SNS, SQS, and Spark-based data processing frameworks.
Broad knowledge of AWS cloud services across compute, database, storage, integration, and serverless technologies.
Strong understanding of application, data, and platform security principles, ensuring data integrity, consistency, availability, and resilience.
Experience fixing complex production issues, analyzing defects, and supporting testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Experience supporting deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Experience working with cloud-native and serverless technologies, data integration patterns, and modern engineering practices.
Hands-on software engineering experience, actively contributing code, conducting code reviews, and leading complex technical implementations.
Ability to produce low-level technical designs, document workflows, and maintain high-quality technical and functional specifications.
Experience working within Agile delivery teams, collaborating with Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts, and engineering teams.
Desirable Skills and Experience
Experience delivering Data Warehousing, Data Migration, and large-scale data transformation initiatives.
Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps principles, with hands-on experience using Azure DevOps (ADO) for source code management, build pipelines, and deployments.
Experience developing data visualizations, dashboards, and reporting solutions using Power BI or similar analytics platforms.
Exposure to financial markets, transaction lifecycles, and regulatory reporting frameworks such as EMIR, MiFID, Dodd-Frank, or similar regimes.
Experience operating within Agile delivery teams in highly regulated or compliance-driven environments.
Knowledge of trading, regulatory reporting, compliance, or risk management technology landscapes would be advantageous.
Soft Skills
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong attention to detail, commitment to quality, and focus on reliable outcomes.
Self-motivated and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Demonstrated ownership and accountability, leading deliverables from concept through implementation and support.
Strong coaching and mentoring skills, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
Adaptable and growth-oriented approach, embracing innovation, emerging technologies, and AI-enabled ways of working.
Team Environment
You will be part of a cross-functional Agile team within bp’s Regulatory Reporting and Trading Technology landscape, working closely with software engineers, business analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to balance operational excellence with continuous platform enhancement.
The team is committed to:
Taking ownership of production services and regulatory outcomes, ensuring reliable and compliant delivery of critical business capabilities.
Working collaboratively as one team across engineering and business functions to achieve shared objectives.
Driving continuous improvement through automation, observability, innovation, and a culture of learning.
Maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence across the end-to-end reporting landscape.
About bp
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!
We 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.
Additional Information
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Even though the job is advertised as full time, please contact the hiring manager or the recruiter as flexible working arrangements may be considered.
What you can expect from us!
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion:
At bp, you could be part of Business Resource Groups (BRGs) which belief in the power of inclusion, deeper connections, and shared experiences. They provide a place for employees to learn and share knowledge, to connect, and to improve. The BRGs focus on and encourage talent engagement, development, and retention while creating a broadened sense of community and inclusion for bp employees. The groups cultivate leadership growth by involving employees in developmental opportunities they would not otherwise have access to. Formal and informal mentoring also helps employees develop their professional goals and connect with colleagues. The BRGs’ dedication to growth at all levels helps employees feel more engaged and energized. The BRGs break down barriers, so we can all do better together. Examples of BRGs include (but are not limited to):
bpWIN (bp Women’s International Network)
Pride
Working parents
PEN (Positively Ethnic Network)
bpInclusia (bp’s Asian community)
bpEnergía (bp’s Latin community)
Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Agility 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 Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development {+ 7 more}
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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.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.
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This is a high-level summary only of terms and current discretionary benefits applicable to certain roles. Some rewards, benefits and policies are at managers’ discretion and vary depending on where you work within the business. All terms subject to contract and all discretionary benefits subject to policy and eligibility.
