Principal Enterprise architect

You will work with

• Technology Strategy

  Setting the technology "north star" in alignment with business needs, including defining target architectures for stores, fueling & charging, supply chains, customer engagement. The focus is on market-facing technology strategy, competitive analysis, benchmarks, and innovation opportunities in collaboration with Technology delivery teams.

• Architecture

  Holding design authority over solution architectures and vendor choices, ensuring that technology decisions align with long-term strategic goals. While individual teams drive architecture and vendor selection, the Technology Office provides oversight, guidance, and approval to maintain consistency and scalability.

• Engineering

  Leading key engineering initiatives, including improving code quality, optimizing cloud costs, increasing automation in development and testing, and advancing AWS cloud maturity. The team also drives Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, guiding teams in tooling, processes, and mindset shifts to enhance operational excellence.

What you will deliver

• Business Area:

  Produce comprehensive business architectures, seeking to accelerate time to value through reuse and driving a modular, connected technology landscape. You will have experience in Point of Sale (POS), payment processing, head Office, and other supply chain management systems

• Architecture:

  Rigorously develop solution architectures, seeking practical solutions that optimize and re-use capabilities. Responsible for building technical designs of services or applications and will care passionately about the integrity of the Digital capabilities you develop.

• Technology:

  You are an excellent technologist and have a passion for understanding and learning. Contribute to digital transformation initiatives from an architectural perspective, facilitating the delivery of solutions. You will bring good hands-on skills in key technologies, and an ability to rapidly assess new technologies with a commercial mentality.

• Safety and Compliance:

  The safety of our people and customers is our highest priority. Advocate and help ensure our architectures, designs and processes enhance a culture of operational safety and improve our digital security.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• A Bachelor's (or higher) degree, ideally in Computer Science, MIS/IT, Mathematics, hard science, or equivalent work experience.
• Master ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and be able to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with peers
• You should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what youre doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions
• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done
• Experience in requirements Definition and Management, Business Architecture and Solution Architecture

• 15+ years of experience in software developement and architecture
• Experience in point-of-sale (POS) systems, customer care, billing and other retail technologies
• Exposure to retail ERP estate (SAP, JD Edwards, etc.), and merchandizing systems (like ESO, etc.)
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends, within the Retail industry
• In-depth retail business experience, specifically in the energy and CPG/FMCG industry, working on transformational initiatives to deliver growth and/or efficiency improvements
• Experience with PCI/PADSS and other relevant governance and compliance standards
• Experience in being part of a tight-knit delivery team. Accomplish exceptional project outcomes in a respectful and supportive culture.
• Emerging Technology Monitoring;
• Systems Design;
• User Experience Analysis;

• Create an environment where people listen and speak openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that everyone can understand and learn.
• Promote a culture of change and agility, evolve continuously, adapting to our changing world.
• Apply judgment and common sense at scale.
• Ensure Compliance with bp's Code of Conduct and demonstrate strong leadership of bp's Leadership Expectations and Values & Behaviours.

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working