Staff Service Engineer

Job summary

Entity:

Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Summary:

Responsible for providing technical leadership for service management / process management / operations support activities (depending on specialism), driving related operating practices and effective implementation of relevant standards, collaborating with a range of stakeholders and providing advanced knowledge and advice to support performance optimization. Specialisms: Service Management; Process Management; Operations Support.

Job Description:

As a Staff Service Engineer you are a technology service expert providing bp with capabilities in the definition, and operation of critical IT services. The role uses knowledge of both traditional concepts and site/software reliability principles and operational support techniques.

Our Staff Service Engineers hold management roles over the delivery of services from internal squads or external providers to ensure business performance in line with agreed, SLOs, IT outcomes and levels of risk and resilience. You ensure operational integrity and operational compliance with appropriate regulatory and internal standards.  You are familiar with DevOps based models as well as traditional outcome based services, and are skilled in working with multidisciplinary teams to identify and resolve customer pain points, inefficiencies, and blockers to delivery velocity. You are a skilled vendor manager, able to ensure the success of traditional outsourced service contracts, and to drive continuous improvements in service quality and customer experience.

You thrive in a culture of continuous improvement within teams, encouraging and empowering innovation and the delivery of changes that optimise operational efficiency and user experience. You are curious and improve your skills through continuous learning of new industry technologies, trends & methods, applying knowledge gained to improve bp standards and the capabilities of the Service Engineering Community.

You provide expertise and recommendations on how to improve wider services delivered by other members of the Service Engineering Community. You coach others in the Discipline to drive improved performance across our business, and drive awareness of Service Engineering principles into the other Disciplines within bp.

You embrace a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world. You are an effective great teammate, looking beyond your own area/organizational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others, while understanding cultural differences. You continually enhance your self-awareness and seek input from others on your impact and effectiveness.  Well organized, you balance proactive and reactive approaches and multiple priorities to complete tasks on time.  You apply judgment and common sense – you use insight and good judgment to inform actions and respond to situations as they arise.

The role is focused on managing a portfolio of investment and operational products across the Corporate Functions product line within People Experience, Digital Product Management. The individual will manage product delivery squads across strategy, Company Secretary’s Office and Group Economics. This will require working closely with the product manager and business stakeholders to ensure the appropriate products are delivered to meet the business outcomes and value.

The Strategy Digital product team supports licensed applications and builds custom digital products for critical Strategy workflows. This includes a business development management hopper, the statistical review processing tools and the various strategic modelling solutions including the Demand 2050 transport demand and Power Market Modelling solutions.

The Company Secretary and Executive office Digital product team supports licensed applications and builds custom digital products for critical CoSec workflows. This includes board & LT meeting & document management, secret document digital signature management, yearly director’s questionnaire management, Legal Entity management system, AGM and AGM voting management, bp employee share management, Insider List Management and tools that enable the board & LT to have a central place to access bp information stored in secure Microsoft platforms. 

Our mission is to provide the bp Strategy team and Company Secretary with specialized applications, data, and IT support to enable our users to work efficiently and make higher-quality decisions, by leveraging enterprise technology and platforms. These digital tools support core business development activities and help bp to align its innovation, capital investment, procurement and recruitment policies with their climate goals, while reducing digital spend.

Our customers are teams within Company Secretary and teams in SS&V, including Portfolio Management and Capital Allocation, Economic and Energy Insights, Low Carbon Commercial Assets and Portfolio Analysis & Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• The safety of our people and our customers is our highest priority. The role will advocate and lead in this and promote a culture of security and safety in everything that we do.
• Customer facing, responsible for ensuring customer requirements are captured, and the right technology is delivered to  meet the requirements, bringing in the right capability and ensuring proposed value is delivered.
• Lead the development, testing, operations, and ongoing improvements to digital products and services
• Ensure on operational integrity, assuring operational compliance with architectural and security standards, as well as compliance and policy controls refined by Strategy, Digital Security or other relevant Regulatory, Legal and Compliance functions.
• Collaborate extensively with wider Digital technology teams to resolve complex incidents, requests, and problems, and will act as technical advisors on major digital projects
• Assure the safe application and adoption of new and updated technologies into the environment, working with customers to ensure requirements are met and respond to escalation where needed
• Build awareness of internal and external technology developments, managing the delivery of process and system improvements, identifying, and implementing continuous value improvement plans for service engineering and ensuring best practice is shared across the team.

Essential Experience and Skills required:

• Experience in scaled Service Delivery Roles with experience managing software vendors or outsources service providers alongside internal teams
• Demonstrable Knowledge in the application of modern Service Delivery methods - Site Reliability Engineering to traditional ITIL, and understanding of Product Based delivery.
• Strong Communications skills and a high ‘EQ’ with the ability to operate across complex business environments and stakeholders up to senior executive level
• Experience of senior stakeholder management is essential and knowledge of corporate governance and strategy functions in large organisations would be preferable but not mandatory.
• Some of the key skills required: Stakeholder Management, Financial Management, Documentation  and knowledge sharing, Metrics definition and Instrumentation, Risk Management, Service operations and resilience, Configuration management and release, ​Agile Core Practices. Coaching. Collaboration. Mentoring and Technical Interviewing

Desirable Experience:

• Project Management experience delivering IT led projects
• Broad experience contributing and collaborating to assist design, plan, implement, maintain, and document services and solutions
• Experience working with hyperscale cloud vendors (AWS/Azure) and service optimization within these environments
• Familiarity with using Microsoft ADO for use case definition and backlog prioritizations
• Good understanding of bp Digital Security, Data Privacy, and Data Retention accountabilities

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytics, Business Analysis, Coaching, Collaboration, Configuration management and release, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, Product Delivery, Project Delivery Management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management, System Design

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 disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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.