Head of Digital Engineering

bp


Date: 7 hours ago
City: Sunbury-on-Thames
Contract type: Full time
Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Are you a proactive and impactful Digital Engineering leader with a passion for technology and a sharp commercial approach? Do you thrive on delivering results while balancing speed, cost, quality and strategy? Are you ready to be the right-hand person to the CTO, shaping the future of technology while empowering teams to scale? If so, this role is for you!

As Head of Digital Engineering at BP Pulse, you’ll be at the heart of technology, strategy and execution. You’ll bring a highly focused, cost-conscious and commercially savvy approach to engineering leadership, ensuring we stay on track, on budget and ahead of the competition.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive high-impact delivery: Ensuring timely, cost-effective and quality driven execution of missions
  • Bridge engineering & architecture: Align engineering excellence with strategic vision
  • Champion process, standards & discipline: Implement rigor, track performance, and drive efficiencies.
  • Keeping tight control of finances and financial consistency: Managing vendors, ensuring fact and KPI-based performance management
  • Actively challenge, reinforce, achieve consensus then evangelize and implement Target Architecture, ensuring cohesion between architect & engineers
  • Lead with hands-on expertise: Roll up your sleeves, dive into technical details, and lead by example.
  • Foster a high-performance culture: Build an empowered, innovative and psychologically safe engineering environment. Garnering an “all inclusion” atmosphere and developing emerging talent
  • Be the CTO’s trusted partner: Refine, iterate, and execute the technical vision at scale.

What Success Looks Like:

  • On-time, on-budget, high-quality delivery
  • Seamless integration between engineers & architects
  • Enhanced modularity, scalability & reusability
  • Strong vendor management & cost control
  • Building a thriving tech community & high-performing teams

This is a role for an inspiring leader who combines deep technical experience with strategic thinking, discipline with agility and engineering excellence with business acumen.

Ready to take the lead and drive real impact? Apply now!

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

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, Agility core practices, Analytics, API and platform design, Business Analysis, Cloud Platforms, Coaching, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, iOS and Android development, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Source control and code management {+ 4 more}

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.

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