Entity:
Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Summary:
Responsible for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact), using advanced technical capabilities to achieve objectives of projects and/or change initiatives, maintaining project plans, managing project risks, leveraging relationships to achieve stakeholder buy-in and driving continuous improvement efforts. Specialism: Project and Product Delivery.
Job Description:
We are looking for people who enjoy working at-pace, love embracing challenges, and have a passion for building and leading highly capable, cross-functional teams! As a Technical Programme Manager, you will be both a practitioner and a leader, joining a group that provides bp with planning, execution, and tracking capabilities that are key to the successful delivery of high-value digital programmes!
Our Technical Programme Managers are deployed to work in different areas of our business. We partner with product management teams and software engineering squads to define objectives and key results, align delivery outcomes with overall product vision and strategy, and measure key performance indicators against delivery. You will bring transferable skills that allow you to support immediate business demand in one area, while also being given the opportunity to grow your knowledge and capabilities over time through exposure to different projects across our businesses. You will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of enterprise systems and technologies that span a diverse technology landscape that operate on a global scale. As a leader you will also be key to the development and growth of more junior Technical Project Managers.
We embrace a culture of change and agility and expect our teams to continuously evolve and adapt to our changing world. We value great teammates, who can transcend organizational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and make those around them better. We actively seek out those who consider the perspective of others, while understanding and respecting cultural differences.
We are looking for a Technical Programme Manager to initially lead delivery across the Cargo and Asset workstreams within the digital Trading Analytics (dTA) portfolio. You will bring a mixture of project/product management skills, hands on scrum master experience as well as exposure to IT department management. The role will report to the Analytics Principal Product Manager within the Innovation and Engineering function.
You will be responsible for delivery and operational improvement and project workstreams delivered by new and existing DevOps teams within the dTA department. The role will also oversee support transition for the suite of products and platforms delivered. Specific responsibilities include:
Project/Product Management:
Delivery of project and product workstreams to time, budget and quality. Current examples include:
Alignment of agile delivery standards (automation of deploy, test, CI/CD, code review and release management standards) as the department adopts a platforms and products strategy.
Delivery of new products and improvements to existing within our asset and cargo intelligence domain, including geospatial visualization of the movement and transformation of assets.
Embedding these new and current products into our existing capabilities and technical practices.
Working with the DevOps teams to perform scrum master activities and the business analyst to define requirements, processes and solutions that the team will implement.
Project management of workstreams: budget management, status reporting, governance and stakeholder management, risks and issues management.
Facilitation of design workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions.
Oversight of quality process and plans within workstream ensuring engineering consistency and repeatability.
Our key bp customer is Trading Analytics & Insights:
Trading Analytics & Insight (TA&I) organization comprises Trading Analysts, Quantitative Analytics, Data Strategists and Core Strategists. Linked by the common themes of data, markets and product expertise, numerical algorithms and technology, the team seeks to make valuable contributions to the business by providing new models, tradable insights and agile technology solutions that empower the commercial teams.
Key Accountabilities:
This role combines knowledge from traditional project management, programme management, agile delivery, and product management with a focus in bespoke web application development and utilization of off the shelf products where applicable. Some of the key accountabilities for this role include...
End-to-end programme delivery for Cargo and Asset Intelligence focused digital products, projects and programmes, including programme governance, planning, execution, benefits realization and tracking for scope, financials, and schedule.
Application of compliance and risk management, coordinating across key teams (e.g. digital security, procurement, legal, etc.) and accounting for global regulatory requirements.
Transparent communications between the project and its partners up to the executive level.
Line Management and career growth for junior Technical Project Managers.
Championing the adoption of Technical Project and Programme Manager standards and practices and expected behaviors across the Technical Programme Manager discipline
Essential Education:
Bachelor’s or Master's Degree CS, CE, EE or equivalent experience
PgMP, PMP, or Agile certification preferred. Equivalent experience also considered
Essential Experience:
A wealth of proven experience in Project Management or Technical Delivery Management roles
Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and deep expertise in at least one methodology
Experience of managing large programmes of work
Strong communications skills and the ability to operate in a complex, enterprise-scale environment
Extensive knowledge of software development, system implementation, and product lifecycles
Ability to take an integrated view of concurrent projects that cross team and domain boundaries and simplify delivery by actively identifying patterns that improve efficiency and promote reuse of existing solutions
Partner with managers of design and engineering teams to ensure focus on fit-for-purpose solutions, and drive efficient delivery of right outcomes for the customer and organization
Ability to convey detailed technical knowledge by speaking to engineering teams in their own language
Capable of holding an engineering team to a high standard and reviewing design decisions, recognizing when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance
Big-picture thinking with the ability to relate business value to solutions to end-to-end system architecture & it’s interdependencies all the way to operability and supportability of the system or product.
Understands system architectures and can effectively manage changes across multiple products and projects to ensure that the integrity of upstream or downstream dependencies is maintained.
Understands fundamental system limitations (e.g. scaling factors, boundary conditions) and the associated architectural decisions and uses judgement to inform technology and business trade-offs.
Understands the consequences of short-term, tactical solutions and long-term impacts of accruing technical debt
Knowledge and experience of assessing testing practices, use of testing tools and techniques
Hands on experience of running Devops teams in scrum (or Kanban) process
Use of Azure Devops (or Jira) to manage delivery: Epics, Product Backlog Items, Stories
Exposure to Devops delivery principles and tooling: automation, CI/CD
Experience of bespoke software delivery, platform delivery, operation team management
Experience of change delivery within business functions and IT
Desireable Experience:
Strong organizational, conflict resolution, and influencing skills
Demonstrated ability to support multiple simultaneous engagements
Ability to balance strategic and tactical concerns and apply good judgement to decisions
Adaptability, fluidity, speed, and initiative in unstructured contexts
Ability to rapidly self-teach and a self-motivated desire to learn new technologies
Genuine curiosity and a strong drive to innovate
Unwavering desire to have a high impact on the organization
An active seeker of personal feedback and a desire for continuous growth
Enjoys mentoring and developing more junior team members
Experience of project delivery in and Oil, Gas, Power commodities trading environment
Shipping or trading experience
Experience of Price and Fundamental data acquisition and management
Experience of data and analytics platforms and management practices
Business case development and creation of formal Financial Memoranda documentation.
Additional Information
We strongly believe in the value of bringing your whole-self to our organization. We commit to equal opportunity regardless of race, religion, creed, disability or sexual orientation. Every member of the BP family commits to the bp Values and Behaviors and seeks to uphold these standards in all that we do.
Travel Requirement
Relocation Assistance:
Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:
Agility core practices, Agility core practices, API and platform design, Benefits Management, Business Analysis, Business modelling, Cloud Platforms, Configuration management and release, Consulting, Data Analysis, Data design, Data Management, Demand Management, Design Thinking, Dialogue enablement, Digital innovation, Digital Product Management, Employee Experience, Empowering Others, Facilitation, Influencing, Managing change, Marketing strategy, Measurement and metrics, Performance management {+ 5 more}
Legal Disclaimer:
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