Building a high-performing team

• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentorship across engineering, data science, and solution teams.
• Inspiring and motivating a permanent team, and third-party project resources, to deliver great results
• Develop a safe, inclusive, high-performance environment where teams can innovate and deliver at pace.
• Establishing a team that find the optimal balance of WHAT they deliver and HOW they deliver
• Presents the highest level of professional individual contribution and imparts technical expertise to lower level team members;
• Advises and directs subordinates and project resources to help accomplish assignments using established guidelines, procedures and policies;
• Reviews and evaluates team members’ performance.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements

• Actively working to develop capability in line with the P&C Capability Framework, with an equal blend of EQ, IQ and drive.
• Technical Capability
  • Confirmed experience in multiple organisational change management roles, including demonstrated skills in leadership alignment, partner identification and analysis
  • Shown experience delivering enterprise-scale systems and AI-enabled solutions in production
  • Strong programming skills (Python preferred; Java or similar acceptable)
  • Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and modern DevOps practices
  • Experience integrating machine learning / GenAI models into real-world systems
  • Experience with LLMs, RAG, vector search, conversational AI, or unstructured data pipelines
  • Familiarity with AI tooling/frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Hugging Face, CrewAI)
  • Experience leading SaaS / cloud-based HR or enterprise platforms
  • Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision making; e.g. process improvements and candidate experience improvements
• Business Capability
  • Strong partner management skills across business, technology, and vendor
  • Customer focus – all decisions clearly aligned to customer strategy. Drives value-adding solutions - deeply integrated to ultimately improve business performance and disrupt, where necessary.
  • Consistent track record of improving/adding customer value and taking things to the next level
  • Externally orientated – aware of protocol and actively shares with, and learns from others
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced global environments
• Leadership & EQ Capability
  • Effective communication skills, flexible style able to deal with partners at all levels
  • Strong influencing skills - able to gain acceptance to ideas from senior customers and comfortable in the space of challenge and difficult conversations
  • Group mind-set - demonstrates a deep understanding of the value of, and ability to develop, high quality, trust-based relationships with colleagues across bp
  • Is self-aware and skilled at handling impact on others
  • Is actively aware of the morale of their team and works constructively to raise it
  • Is politically astute and able to work successfully across organisational boundaries
  • Acts with integrity; is an exemplar of living the LEs & V&Bs
  • Consistent track record of successfully developing and inspiring others and engendering followership
  • Cultural fluency - ability to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity

Desirable Criteria

• Project management experience using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Sound understanding of trends in the relevant process / technology areas
• Experience working within a global organisation, including using social media style tools to support communications and engagement across time zones
• Advanced at working collaboratively with internal and external partners

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

Negligible 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, Agility core practices, API and platform design, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development {+ 7 more}

Legal Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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.

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