BP

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

As a Senior Data Protection Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in securing and evolving our enterprise-wide technology platforms. Your work will ensure the resilience, performance, and compliance of critical systems across the organization.

In this role, you'll apply deep expertise in platform security, infrastructure engineering, and operational excellence to support large-scale transformation initiatives. You’ll help shape platform architecture, integrate with enterprise systems, and establish security frameworks that protect high-value enterprise data. You’ll also collaborate closely with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to design robust governance models, define technology roadmaps, and implement innovative, scalable solutions.

Join a dynamic, high-performing team of engineers and product managers collaborating with technology and business leaders to drive transformative data initiatives that deliver real, measurable impact.

What You'll Deliver

• Drive the development of enterprise technology architecture, platform engineering standards, and security frameworks for our core data platform.
• Implement comprehensive security controls across our unified data environment, ensuring alignment with industry and regulatory compliance standards.
• Promote operational excellence by supporting system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Contribute to platform modernization efforts, integrating legacy and modern systems across the enterprise.
• Design and implement automated security monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and identity and access management solutions.
• Leverage DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools to streamline deployments and enhance platform consistency.
• Support disaster recovery and high-availability strategies for critical enterprise platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to deliver business-aligned platform solutions.
• Provide strategic input on platform investments, security risks, and infrastructure improvements.
• Partner with senior engineers to build long-term technical roadmaps focused on reducing operational complexity and increasing scale.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Required Qualifications & Technical Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• proven experience in enterprise technology, platform operations, or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps principles, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., AWS CDK, Azure Bicep).
• Familiarity with ITIL frameworks, Agile methodologies, and enterprise governance standards.
• Strong technical foundation in big data tools such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Flink.
• Experience working with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native data services (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Proficiency in SQL and one or more programming languages such as Python or Scala.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and distributed systems architecture.

Essential Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Databricks, and Palantir platforms.
• Knowledge of data ingestion pipelines, data governance, access control, and visualization tools.
• Proven ability to support large-scale, multi-cloud data platforms with a focus on cost-efficiency, performance, and resilience.
• Familiarity with performance tuning, distributed query optimization, and data indexing.
• Exposure to both real-time and batch processing pipelines and architectures.

What Sets You Apart:

• Demonstrated experience working in globally distributed, highly regulated environments with a focus on compliance, security, and risk management.
• Expertise in AI/ML-driven data engineering and applying intelligent automation to optimize platform workflows.

Why join our team?

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 challenging 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.

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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

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, 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.

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