Senior Data Engineer

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Being part of the P&O Digital Delivery data group, you will apply your experience and familiarity with domain data processes to support the P&O organisation across teams such as Wells & Subsurface, Production and bp Solutions. These teams provide daily operational data management, data engineering and analytics support to this organisation across a broad range of disciplines, applications and business requirements.
 

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A Senior data engineer designs, constructs, installs, tests, and maintains highly scalable data management systems. They are responsible for building the infrastructure that allows for the generation, collection, and analysis of large datasets. Key responsibilities include developing, constructing, testing, and maintaining architectures such as databases and large-scale processing systems, ensuring that architectures support data analytics, and preparing data for prescriptive and predictive modeling. Data engineers also develop data set processes for data modeling, mining, and production, integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure data accuracy and accessibility. They play a critical role in enabling the data-driven decision-making process by ensuring that data pipelines are robust, efficient, and scalable
 

What you will deliver

• Part of a cross-disciplinary team, working closely with other data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, data managers and business partners.

• Architects, designs, implements and maintains reliable and scalable data infrastructure to move, process and serve data.

• Writes, deploys and maintains software to build, integrate, manage, maintain, and quality-assure data at bp.

• Adheres to and advocates for software engineering best practices (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; develops, maintains and improves CI / CD pipeline,

• Responsible for service reliability and following site-reliability engineering standard processes: on-call rotations for services they maintain, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs. Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code. Containerizes server deployments.

• Actively contributes to improve developer velocity.

• Mentors others.
   

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

Essential

• Deep and hands-on experience designing, planning, building, productionizing, maintaining and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environments

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

• Advanced database and SQL knowledge

• Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed data systems

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in technologies across all data lifecycle stages

• Strong customer management and ability to lead initiatives through technical influence

• Continuous learning and improvement approach

• BS degree in computer science or related field or equivalent knowledge and experience
   

Desired

• Previous experience of Data Engineering within either the energy sector or adjacent industries
   

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!
 

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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, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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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Legal Disclaimer:

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, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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.