Principal Software Engineer

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BP Net Zero 2050
BP has embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize and transform using digital technologies to drive efficiency, effective and new business models
Digital Customers & Markets focuses on customer experience and deliver cross-business group solutions that generate value for bp in current and new markets solving complex challenges with our data and technology expertise to help bp advance a Net Zero future and reimagining energy.
Our Team delivers and runs Digital Products for Fleet Customers globally and are aligned to Product, Service and Platform teams that work together to enable our customers to accomplish their missions.
You will provide hands-on expertise to build and leading multiple autonomous software engineering teams from a technical perspective and collaborate with Architects, Product Owners and the wider business to build a scalable, robust and secure platform.
If technology excites you, we want you!
As a Principal Software Engineer, you are the expert member of a team creating software for BP colleagues and external users.
As an IT provider of choice to your area of BP and delivering innovation at speed you will operate in a dynamic and commercially focused environment, with the resources of one of the world's largest IT organisations working with you
The role is a hands-on so, as well as driving engineering decisions and best practices, you will also be coding so need to be an excellent hands-on coder.
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Key Accountabilities
• Working with users and business analysts to understand requirements
• Designing, developing, and testing custom software applications
• Supporting and maintaining your software
We believe in DevOps – you build it, you run it!
• Monitoring and applying emerging technologies
• Providing mentorship and thought leadership to your team and across the organisation
• Mentoring and technical leadership of less experienced developers
Essential Technical Skills :
• Extensive experience and mastery of one or more of Java, C#, JavaScript/Node.js
• Proven willingness and ability to learn, to become deeply skilled in at least one more programming language on top of your existing skillset
• Deep experience and understanding of the SDLC, including design, security, design patterns for extensible and reliable code, automated unit and functional testing, CI/CD and telemetry
• Expertise in modern technologies like Cloud native, containers, serverless
• Proven leadership capability
Secondary:
• Confirmed experience of Agile methodologies, DevOps culture and practices, Lean techniques like Value Stream Mapping
• User story definition
• Application Support
• Experience in most of these technologies:
o Azure and/or AWS
o Azure DevOps/Git/GitHub
o RESTful APIs
o Deep understanding of automated testing [unit, functional, integration, e2e]
o Container technologies [EKS, AKS, OpenShift, docker] and Serverless
Leadership and EQ
• You embrace a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world.
• You are a great team-mate, looking beyond your own area and organisational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and perspective of others.
• You are self-aware and actively seek mentorship from others on impact and effectiveness
• You apply judgment and common sense
You use insight and good judgement to enable commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions and to respond to situations as they arise.
• You have cultural fluency – you actively seek to understand cultural differences and sensitivities.
Education
• Computer Science or other technical [e.g
Physics, Engineering] degree or equivalent commercial experience
Desirable Experience and Capability
Entity
Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group
IT&S Group
Relocation available
No
Travel required
No
Country
United Kingdom
About BP
INNOVATION & ENGINEERING
Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world
All without compromising our operational risk management.
Working with us, you can do this by:
• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions
• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
• originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them
• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks
Because together we are:
• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎
• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive
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Negotiable
LONDON
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