Staff Software Engineer

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., * 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.

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

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!