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Job Description:
As a Senior Ariba Engineer, you are designing and maintaining the Ariba and Fieldglass solution for BP colleagues and external users.
You will operate in a dynamic and commercially focussed environment, with the resources of one of the world's largest Digital organisations and leading Digital and IT vendors working with you. You will be part of growing and strengthening our technical talent base – experts coming together to solve BP and the world’s problems.
Key Accountabilities
Leading full lifecycle implementations of SAP Ariba solutions, including requirements gathering, system configuration, testing, training, and release support.
Analysing business processes related to procurement, contingent workforce management, and supplier management to identify areas for improvement and develop optimized solutions within Ariba and Fieldglass.
Crafting and configuring Ariba and Fieldglass solutions to meet specific business needs, including integrations with other SAP and non-SAP systems.
Managing or performing customizations and extensions to Ariba and Fieldglass, often involving working with ABAP developers or using Ariba's or Fieldglass's own development tools.
Ensuring flawless integration between Ariba/Fieldglass and other systems, such as SAP ERP (S/4HANA), other procurement or ERP solutions, and third-party applications.
Leading design, development, testing and deployment of SAP Fieldglass Contingent Worker (CW) and Statement of Work (SOW)
Working with users and business analysts to understand requirements
Supporting and maintaining your software. We believe in DevOps – you build it, you run it!
Senior Engineer is accountable to the IT&S Product Manager and the respective service delivery. This includes responsibility for:
Ensuring the solution:
Adheres to target architecture as defined by the Bill of IT (Target Architecture), target process design, information model, etc
Meets all relevant Group, Segment and Business IT&S Standards
Remains consistent with and is appropriate for the business requirements
Lead and communicate efficiently with our Business Users, Solution Architects, Development Teams, Product Owners, Product Managers and 3rd party vendors in different time zones across BP
Working with other bp and non-bp teams to ensure required project deliverables, such as Data Privacy and Digital Security
This role requires a broad understanding of the Oil & Gas Business, combined with a pragmatic and delivery focused attitude, deep technical expertise, flexibility and a willingness to be involved in projects on a ‘hands on’ basis.
esirable Education
Computer Science or other technical (e.g. Physics, Engineering) degree or equivalent commercial experience
Desirable Experience and Capability
Years of experience: 8 to 10 years, with a minimum of 4 to 6 years of relevant experience in SAP Ariba implementations.
Required Criteria
SAP Systems Design
SAP Technical Specialism
SAP Systems Integration
Comprehensive understanding and experience in Source-to-Pay Processes (Sourcing, Procurement, Category Management, Accounts Payable, etc), and its relationship to complementing processes
Deep seated functional knowledge, hands-on design and delivery experience using these Products/modules in sophisticated architecture landscape
SAP Fieldglass Contingent Worker (CW) and Statement of Work (SOW)
SAP Fieldglass Integration with SAP Ariba and SAP ECC
SAP Ariba – SLP, AN, B&I, S2C, ICS
SAP Cloud Integration Gateway
SAP ECC – MM and its integration points to Finance, PM, IS-OIL, Tax
Good understanding in Technical Integration and delivery of sophisticated solutions through
SAP Process Orchestration (PO) / Process Integration (PI)
SAP Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG)
API
SAP ABAP language
Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including design, security, design patterns for extensible and reliable code, automated unit and functional testing, CI/CD and telemetry
Demonstrated understanding of modern technologies like Cloud native, containers, serverless
Embrace a culture of change and agility, evolving and adapting continuously
A great team-mate and leader, looking beyond your own area and organisational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and perspective of others.
Use insight and good judgement to enable commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions and to respond to situations as they arise.
Good interpersonal skills including the ability to relate sophisticated topics in simple and accessible language.
Experience in planning, Designing and delivering sophisticated solutions across multiple products and organizational units.
Preferred Criteria
Skills and/or experience in:
SAP Ariba (SLP, B&I, S2C, SBN, Catalogs)
SAP MDG, VIM and OpenText
SAP S/4 HANA
SAP Central Procurement
Leadership and people management
Agile methodologies
User story definition
Application Support
Emerging Technology Monitoring
Azure and/or AWS
Requirements Definition and Management
Business Risk Management
Systems Development Management
Business Modelling
Monitoring and telemetry tools
User Experience Analysis
Key Behaviours
Empathetic: Cares about our people, our community and our planet
Curious: Seeks to explore and excel
Creative: Imagines the outstanding
Inclusive: Brings out the best in each other
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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.