About BP
INNOVATION & ENGINEERING
Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero world. All without compromising our operational risk management.
Working with us, you can do this by:
deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and safety ambitions
driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new businesses from them
protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks
Because together we are:
Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs
Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive,
Job Family Group
IT &S Group
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Job Profile Summary
Bp's Innovation & Engineering (I &E) organization is the central organization for all software development. We build all the technology that powers bp's businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream delivery of energy to our customers. This role is a senior leader in our organization, reporting to the VP, Software and Platform Engineering.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the software engineering organizations for productions & operations, customers & products (B2C, B2B) and trading & shipping (500+ people)
- Closely collaborate with multi-functional peers (product, digital design, data & analytics, etc) to ensure coherent digital solutions across bp.
- Defining, set, and propagate the software engineering vision and strategy for your area, in collaboration with the VP, Software & Platform Engineering.
- Be responsible for technical decisions pertaining to software engineering in your area, e.g. buy versus build, technical design, software engineering technical reference model (with exception of security, privacy and compliance).
- Be responsible for delivery and maintenance of software systems and applications in your area.
- Lead the budget and headcount for software engineers in your area. As part of this, ensure that the right software engineering capability is allocated to an activity.
- Identify and lead software engineering programs and use case prioritization for your area and work closely with the VP Software & Platform Engineering on bp group-wide prioritization.
- Pioneer new use cases for software engineering to enhance bp's external business competitiveness and digital leadership.
- Provide insights, stay at the forefront of emergent trends and technologies and advise executive team and senior business leaders on the introduction of new software technologies and partnerships into bp.
- Advise business SVPs for their area on software engineering.
- Co-develop software engineering strategy with VP, Software & Platform engineering and corresponding business entities.
- Provide feedback on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and investment activities from a software engineering perspective.
- Serve as an ambassador for bp and elevate bp's external profile in the area of software engineering.
Time Type
Full time
Country
United Kingdom
Location
United Kingdom – South East – London
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Skills and Experience
- Experience in software engineering, exhibiting both breadth and depth of technical software engineering skills and has significant past hands-on experience in building, developing, launching and maintaining software solutions at scale.
- Has prior experience growing, developing, running and leading large software engineering organizations.
Experience Level
Executive
