Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

About bp

Technology is making a difference in bp’s plans to invest in today’s energy systems and help build tomorrow’s. We have a deep history of technical problem-solving and use sophisticated technologies across the business, from our remotely led platform in the Caspian to sophisticated seismic imaging and biogas production. Technology provides a driven edge in our oil and gas business and creates products that underpin our differentiated brands such as Castrol, bp Ultimate and Aral. Our digital teams enable the underlying infrastructure from which our staff and sites operate and connect every day; protecting and safeguarding our systems, assets and people from digital threats; and leverage digital technology to deliver the products, platforms and services our business needs. Technology is driving value and returns for bp as an integrated energy company.

Let me tell you about the role

Endur Technology Engineers in the bp Disciplines Model

bp is reinventing itself and digital capability is at the core of this vision. As an Endur Technology Engineer you are an Endur practitioner with a deep level of application and trading expertise. Endur Technology Engineers work within bp’s Gas and Power Trading division on the core trading and risk management platform, Endur. You will bring knowledge of commodity trading and the use of ERTM systems to lead this activity. You will be familiar with both the business application of these technologies and the broad concepts behind Agile technology delivery and DevOps.

bp operates a discipline-based organization and Endur Technology Engineers may be deployed to work in different areas of our business over time based your skills and experience and the business adoption of technology. With your technology specialist skills, you will bring transferable skills which will allow you to support immediate business demand, and to grow your skills over time.

You thrive in a culture of continuous improvement within teams, encouraging and empowering innovation and the delivery of changes that optimise operational efficiency and user experience. You are curious and improve your skills through continuous learning of new technologies, trends & methods, applying knowledge gained to improve bp standards and the capabilities of the Engineering Community.

You adopt a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world. You are an effective team mate looking beyond your own area/organizational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others, while understanding cultural differences. You continually enhance your self-awareness and seek input guidance from your impact and effectiveness. Well organized, you balance proactive and reactive approaches and multiple priorities to complete tasks on time. You apply judgment and common sense – you use insight and good judgment to advise actions and respond to situations as they arise.

European Gas & Power (EGP) is part of bp’s trading business based in Canary Wharf, London. It is front and centre in bp’s plans to move away from Oil to a future of renewable energy. The gas business is a crucial element of this transition providing base load capacity and the ability to meet peak demand, while the power business is investing heavily in wind and solar. Their power strategy includes reaching 12GW of renewable power by 2030; which equates to one third of the UK’s total current demand.

What you will deliver

• The safety of our people and our customers is our highest priority. The role will advocate and lead in this and promote a culture of security and safety in everything that we do.

• Work as part of evolving multi-disciplinary teams which may include Software Engineers, Enterprise Technology Engineers, Designers, SecOps, and Product owners to deliver value through the application of specialist skills

• Work with vendors and partners providing market solutions to optimize the usage and value which can be delivered from the appropriate technology platform

• Ensure operational integrity of what you build, assuring operational compliance with architectural and security standards, as well as compliance and policy controls refined by Strategy.

• Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Experience testing Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) systems, such as Endur, including front-to-back process coverage

• Validated experience in both manual and automated software testing across sophisticated enterprise systems, with a track record of delivering high-quality results under tight achievements.

• Strong SQL skills for extracting, manipulating, and validating test data from relational databases, including the ability to write and optimise queries in both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases

• Practical experience using Git (or similar version control systems) to lead code, track changes, and collaborate efficiently with development teams

• Hands-on experience with BDD frameworks (ex. SpecFlow, Reqnroll) for writing and accomplishing automated tests in a maintainable and scalable way

• Proficiency in test management tools (ex. Jira, Azure DevOps) and defect tracking systems to plan, track, and report on testing progress and defects efficiently

• Practical experience using development environments (ex. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider) to run, debug, and maintain automated tests and related project code.

• Ability to design, complete, and document functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance (UAT) test scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage of business requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify, isolate, and document defects and work with developers to resolve them

• High attention to detail, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and clarity in both testing outputs and supporting documentation

• Collaborative working style with experience partnering efficiently with multi-functional teams including developers, business analysts, project managers, and business participants

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise test documentation and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Understanding of energy trading business processes, such as trade bring together, risk reporting, and settlements, to align testing with business-critical workflows

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (ex. Jenkins, Azure DevOps) to support rapid release cycles and continuous quality assurance

• Exposure to performance, load, and stress testing tools and methodologies to ensure system stability and scalability

• Prior experience in large-scale enterprise environments with distributed teams across multiple time zones, demonstrating adaptability to varied working styles and communication methods

• Proven understanding of programming and scripting languages such as C#, Python, PowerShell, YAML, or Java

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, tools, and domain-specific business processes in fast-paced project environments

Core Skills Expectations :

• Agile Core Practices - Understand and apply agile values and principles and core agility practices to the work of the team; including agile approach and focus on customer, product and team to generate value.

• Technical Specialism - The development and exploitation of expertise in any specific area of information or communications technology, technique, method, product or application area.

• Configuration management and release - The lifecycle planning, control and management of the assets of an organization (such as documentation, software and service assets, including information relating to those assets and their relationships. This involves identification, classification and specification of all configuration items (CIs) and the interfaces to other processes and data.

• Documentation and knowledge sharing - The systematic management of vital knowledge to bring value for the organization by assembling, sharing, developing and exploiting the collective knowledge of the organization to improve performance, support decision making and mitigate risks. The development of a supportive and collaborative knowledge advancement culture to drive the successful adoption of technology solutions for knowledge management. Providing access to informal, tacit knowledge as well as formal, documented, explicit knowledge by facilitating internal and external collaboration and communications.

• Information security - The selection, design, justification, implementation and operation of controls and management strategies to maintain the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and relevant compliance of information systems with legislation, regulation and relevant standards.

• Metrics definition and Instrumentation - The development and operation of a measurement capability to support agreed organizational information needs. The planning, implementation, and control of activities to measure attributes of processes, products, and services in order to assess performance, progress, and provide indications and insights to actual or potential problems, issues, and risks.

• Service operations and resiliency - The ability to build and operate services and applications at scale with automation to maintain high levels of availability. To do this, a combination of activities are required from the initial design and sizing of the infrastructure, network, and constituent components to determine throughput (# of transactions/requests, users) through to service health metrics, monitoring, alarming, and remediation. Each of these areas will combine human effort (e.g., a human is paged) as well as automated steps and tools to reduce operational burden and overhead.

• Source control and code management - The practice of supervising and leading changes to code to help to resolve difference of opinions when merging contributions from multiple sources. This includes the use of guidelines such as using pull requests and trunk based development, running automated testing and static analysis pre-commit, and preventing build breaks through automation/rollbacks.

• Testing and Quality Assurance - Measure and maintain a high level of code quality from development through deployment to production. This includes automated and manual testing, including but not limited to: unit testing, static analysis, functional testing, UI testing, load testing, chaos testing. Testing should be done throughout the development lifecycle (agile) rather than being reserved to a specific landmark (waterfall).

• Coaching - Uses a blend of formal and informal coaching to build the capability of the team to ensure that performance delivery is sustainable in the longer term and the team are motivated to continue to develop their capabilities.

• Collaboration - The ability to collaborate with teams internally and externally to drive activities that support the wider bp strategy. Collaborative leaders enable and empower others to cooperate willingly to achieve positive results. They navigate a varied network of people, inside and outside of bp, to gain insight and ideas. They co-create through collective curiosity, communities and new collaboration tools to discover possibilities so that digital transformation and high performance can thrive at pace. They focus on being customer and user-centric.

• Facilitation - Facilitates learning, group activities and group discussions. Uses a range of techniques to guide group sessions to appropriate and useful outcomes, in a constructive and timely manner

• Mentoring - Provides a reciprocal and collaborative at-will relationship for the purpose of the mentee’s growth, learning, and career development. Often there is an emphasis on organizational goals, culture, career goals, advice on professional development, and work-life balance.

Why join 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! At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting 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.

Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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.

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)

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 diversity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Travel Requirement

Negligible 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:

Openlink Endur, OpenLink Endur Accounting, OpenLink Endur Connex, Openlink Endur Environment Management, Openlink Endur Report Builder

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.

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