Staff data engineer

Job Description

Data Engineering Manager - (People Manager, Grade G) About Bp / Team Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We?re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes, and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world?s leading energy trader! Job Summary Data Engineers perform a vital role helping produce analytics that provide value for our customers and accelerate our business. This job requires great communication skills, a high degree data literacy, and tool fluency in the modern data stack. Data Engineers typically work in a multi-disciplinary teams with other data, software, and business professionals. Staff data engineers are expected to be technical leaders capable of leading multiple teams and developing other engineering team members. Responsibilities Leads, grows and develops a team of data engineers that writes, deploys and maintains software to build, integrate, manage, maintain, and quality-assure data at bp. Creates positive engagement and drives an inclusive work environment with team and stakeholders through the quality of interactions and collaboration across multiple business entities. Set and communicate team priorities that align and support the broader organization?s goals Effectively works with cross-disciplinary collaborators and stakeholders across multiple business entities. Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization?s goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s) Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs Architects and designs reliable and scalable data infrastructure. Advocates for and ensures their team adheres to software engineering best practices (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation), Responsible for service reliability and following site-reliability engineering best practices: on-call rotations for services they oversee, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs. Qualifications Essential BS degree in computer science or related field Experience (typically 2+ years) leading, growing and developing a data engineering team of around 7-30 people Deep and hands-on experience (typically 5+ years) designing, planning, productionizing, maintaining and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environments 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects Development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Scala, Java, C#) Solid database and SQL knowledge Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in technologies across all data lifecycle stages Strong stakeholder management and ability to lead teams through managerial and technical influence Continuous learning and improvement mindset Desired No prior experience in the energy industry required