Grade H Responsible for supporting the delivery of business analysis and consulting processes and procedures for the defined specialism using sound technical capabilities, building and maintaining effective working relationships, ensuring relevant standards are defined and maintained, and supporting delivery of process and system improvements. Specialisms: Business Analysis; Data Management and Data Science; Digital Innovation.
You will work with You work as a member of a high-energy, top-performing team of engineers, working alongside technology leaders to shape the vision and drive the execution of ground-breaking compute and data platforms that make a real impact.
Let me tell you about the role A Senior Database Engineer designs, constructs, installs, tests, and maintains highly scalable data management systems. They are responsible for building the infrastructure that allows for the generation, collection, and analysis of large datasets. Key responsibilities include developing, constructing, testing, and maintaining architectures such as databases and large-scale processing systems, ensuring that architectures support data analytics, and preparing data for prescriptive and predictive modeling. Data engineers also develop data set processes for data modeling, mining, and production, integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure data accuracy and accessibility. They play a critical role in enabling the data-driven decision-making process by ensuring that data pipelines are robust, efficient, and scalable
What you will deliver - Part of a cross-disciplinary team, working closely with other data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, data managers and business partners.
- Architects, designs, implements and maintains reliable and scalable data infrastructure to move, process and serve data.
- Writes, deploys and maintains software to build, integrate, manage, maintain, and quality-assure data at bp.
- Adheres to and advocates for software engineering best practices (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation),
- Responsible for deploying secure and well-tested software that meets privacy and compliance requirements; develops, maintains and improves CI / CD pipeline,
- Responsible for service reliability and following site-reliability engineering best practices: on-call rotations for services they maintain, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs. Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code. Containerizes server deployments.
- Actively contributes to improve developer velocity.
- Mentors others
What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications) - Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable data infrastructure and services
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, C#, and Python
- Advanced SQL expertise, including writing, tuning, and maintaining complex queries
- Experience designing data models, schemas, and supporting scalable architecture
- Proven ability to develop and maintain data integration pipelines across systems and platforms
- Familiarity with database design patterns, partitioning, indexing, and storage optimization
- Ability to collaborate across teams and lead technical efforts through influence
- Commitment to continuous learning, operational maturity, and process improvement