Lead Solution Architect

Join our Refining and Products Team and advance your career as aLeadSolution Architect

We are looking for a Lead Solution Architect in the Biofuels space. This is a great opportunity to join a strong architecture community and a supportive, high performing team. You will help shape the technology direction for key supply and logistics capabilities that are critical to bp's operations. The work you do will influence products and platforms used every day across our global supply chain.

This is a role for someone who enjoys complex problem solving, working across teams, collaborating with senior partners, and setting clear architectural direction that engineering teams can follow.

In this role You will:

Define and maintain the architecture vision and roadmap for biofuels

Lead key design decisions and ensure aligned, coherent architecture across multiple squads

Provide direction on cloud architecture using AWS, including containerised workloads on ROSA or OpenShift

Shape integration architecture across API led, event driven and microservices patterns

Guide teams on data architecture, domain models, data flows and data contracts

See opportunities where AI, ML or GenAI can bring meaningful improvements to optimization, automation or insight generation

Partner with senior business and technology interested parties to translate business needs into clear architecture direction

Ensure architecture guardrails are followed and support delivery teams throughout design and implementation

Collaboration with teams across the US, UK, and other regions

Occasional travel up to 10 percent

What You will need to be successful:

Solid experience in architecture roles such as solution, domain or enterprise architect

Strong functional understanding of complex operational environments such as bio and conventional liquid fuels

Broad architectural experience across:

AWS cloud services

Integration architecture including APIs, event driven patterns and microservices

Data architecture and data modelling

Experience creating architecture roadmaps and leading decision making across multiple teams

Excellent communication and partner management skills

Ability to work effectively in a constantly evolving environment

Familiarity with TOGAF or similar frameworks

Experience working with global product and engineering teams

Desirable criteria:

Proven experience in oil trading or biofuels compliance

Exposure to optimization or compliance driven environments

Practical experience with AI, ML or GenAI

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

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.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Business modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Data design, Digital Analytics, Emerging technology monitoring, Information Assurance, Integration, IT Management, IT strategy and planning, Network Design, Requirements definition and management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Solution Architecture, Systems Development Management, Technical specialism, User Experience Analysis

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