Role Synopsis

Digital customers & markets is a cross-functional team responsible for creating world class, customer led, cross-business entity user experiences, solutions, services, and platforms across Customer & products, Gas & low carbon energy, Trading & shipping, and Regions, cities & solutions that generate value for bp in current and new markets. This software engineering role is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of Commodity Trading Scheduling solutions for bp Gas and Power Trading Americas.

Key Accountabilities

• Contributes and collaborates to assist designs, implements, maintains reliable and scalable client-side user-interfaces and server-side software.

• Is hands-on and actively contributes to code.

• Adheres to and advocates for software engineering protocols (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation),

• Responsible for deploying secure and well-tested software that meets privacy and compliance requirements; Consumes approved DevSecOps enabled CI/CD pipelines.

• Adheres to agile methodology and operates and builds DevOps maturity. Ensuring delivery of business incremental change safely and reliably.

• Actively contributes to building DevOps maturity, incrementally and measurably improving delivery velocity.

• Mentors others.

Essential education

• Broad experience designing, planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting solutions.

• Depth of experience to recommend appropriate platforms for any given business requirements.

• Development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. C#/.NET, Python, Go, Java, C/C++)

• Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in areas such as data structures, database table design, algorithm design, runtime complexity, system architecture (scalable, reliable, redundant design), API design, security and privacy protocols, at scale monitoring, logging & alerting, testing guidelines.

• Strong communication skills and ability to talk at all levels across the organization. Ability to engage and influence is of paramount importance. Able to decompose technical considerations that everyone can understand is key and interested party management and ability to lead organizations through influence

• Continuous learning and improvement perspective (for themselves and others)

• Degree/HND Level in computer science or related subject

• No prior experience in the energy industry required

Job requirements

• A decade of expertise of enterprise software development, namely building and supporting enterprise line of business applications in mixed-platform environments

• Proven track record of success over many years of hands-on C# development experience with specialized expertise in building complex user interfaces using WPF and MVVM patterns

• Top-tier of database development experience with one or more RDBMS technologies (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server)

• Knowledge and experience of distributed computing technologies, caching and in-memory data processing, and concurrent programming

• Strong knowledge of and experience with software design patterns and enterprise integration patterns

• Knowledge and experience using Git source code repositories

Desirable criteria

• Working experience and knowledge of ETRM and/or scheduling systems including OpenLink Endur

• Working experience and knowledge of Dev Express C#.NET MVC Controls

• Knowledge and experience with .NET Core and the porting of applications from the .NET Framework to .NET Core.

• Experience with the use of Azure DevOps and the Agile methodology

• Complete tasks quickly and thoroughly, owns issues and is highly diligent.

• Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast paced, high growth environment. Exhibits ownership of projects and tasks assigned

• Excellent organizational skills required to adapt to a constantly evolving technical environment

• Strong teammate with a customer service orientation with the ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures

• Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal.

• Ethical, honest, fair and high integrity.

Why join us
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and high-reaching environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

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.


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