Senior Software Engineer (Python)
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.
Locations: United States of America - Texas - Houston, US: Chicago
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: 2 Days Ago
Job Requisition ID: RQ084278
Entity: Trading & Shipping
Job Family Group: Supply & Trading Group
Job Description:
The Trading Data Analytics team within the Trading Analytics & Insights (TA&I) organisation in bp Trading & Shipping comprises Quantitative Analytics, Data Strategists and Core Strategists. Linked by the common themes of data, numerical algorithms and technology, the team seeks to contribute to the business by providing new models, tradable insights and agile technology solutions that empower the analyst community and advantage the commercial teams.
The Senior Software Engineers (Python), working in cross-discipline Squads, are helping spearhead our analytics transformation, re-imaging legacy business critical Excel models on our strategic data science platform Dataiku. We are Python experts and combine deep programming know-how with practical experience of analytics - data science methods, statistics, numerical algorithms or commercial skills. Working in close partnership with the analysts and strategists across regions and commodity lines, you will craft and build solutions to exciting business problems in a highly multifaceted commercial environment.
In your role, you will also partner with the central IT organisation for strategic deliveries, including modern data repositories, new analytical toolkits, visualisation technologies and cloud compute.
Key Accountabilities:
- Build direct relationships with key analysts and commercial partners, understand their business requirements and immediate goals, and build effective technical solutions based on their mentorship.
- Make significant contributions to the Core Strategist team globally, helping to define technical excellence, crafting standard processes and identifying new opportunities for modular, reusable code components and shared libraries.
- Act as a technical design owner for a specific commodity line or area fully understanding commercial asks and drivers and finding the best technical solutions to achieve a commercial outcome whilst keeping focus on non-functional and performance requirements.
- Play a leading role in advancing the strategic technology agenda across regions.
- Serve as a deep technical authority and source of expert mentorship to the analyst community.
- Provide day-to-day problem solving support, proactively disseminating best practice and driving collaboration and knowledge sharing across Agile Squads worldwide.
- Build efficient, resilient and innovative solutions using modern data analytics technologies (Dataiku, Power BI and Plotly Dash) that enable analysts, inform decision making and drive revenue generation.
- Partner with analysts to develop custom interactive dashboard visualization solutions using web technologies and third-party frameworks.
- Craft and build scalable, reusable components and frameworks in-line with mandated architectures.
- Rigorously adhere to software development standard methodology for enterprise-grade applications.
- Make significant contributions to the shared proprietary model libraries for use by analysts globally.
- Work with the architecture and infrastructure teams in central IT to ensure that designs are aligned with the company technology strategy.
- Act as a Product Owner for strategic projects undertaken by the centralized IT teams in service of Trading Analytics & Insight.
Essential Education:
- Relevant university degree in a STEM subject or other quantitative field (computer science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or physics, electrical engineering, mathematical finance).
Essential Experience:
- Understanding of supply and demand drivers together with how physical and related financial instruments are traded.
- Proficient English knowledge and ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Substantial industry experience of Python programming for numerical data analysis, including an extensive knowledge of pandas, numpy, Jupyter. Solid practical knowledge of time series data manipulation.
- Deeply expert in writing production ready, highly reliable numerical code.
- Good understanding of web services, ability to integrate with REST APIs.
- Excellent knowledge of SQL and RDBMs. Deep experience in cloud technology concepts and stack, specifically AWS services.
- Reporting, with a strong emphasis on data visualization. Knowledge of visualisation frameworks, including Plotly, Plotly Dash and PowerBI.
- Deeply familiar with software development standard process, including unit, integration and regression testing. Build and deploy patterns. Source code control systems (Git).
- Strong analytical, reasoning and mathematical skills.
- Great team member management skills.
Desirable Experience & Skills:
- Knowledge of regional energy markets (e.g. oil, natural gas, low-carbon, LNG, or power).
- Understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML.
- Understanding of econometrics and time series forecasting.
- Experience of working with data science platforms - especially DataIKU or databricks.
- Experience of UX design.
- Industry experience of large-scale data analysis and predictive modelling, preferably in an investment bank, hedge fund or energy major.
- Object oriented programming in a second language, for example Java, C++ or C#.
- Javascript or Typescript programming, experience with React.js, Node.js/npm.
- Quantitative and data science skills, for example knowledge of statistics, probability theory, optimization or machine learning.
- The scientific python stack including SciPy, scikit-learn, Statsmodels.
Why Join Us:
At bp, 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 encouraging 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, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
Travel Requirement:
Negligible travel should be expected with this role.
Relocation Assistance:
Relocation may be negotiable for this role.
Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.
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. 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.
About bp:
Trading & Shipping
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world.
In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy trader.
Join us and help us achieve these goals by:
- Developing and continuously evolving a globally diversified portfolio that accesses new markets, commodities and commercial opportunities.
- Collaborating with our business groups to provide innovative commercial and marine solutions that add value to bp’s assets and flows.
- Delivering high-quality earnings and creating an organisation that is swift to identify and optimise market insights.
- Navigating a new era of energy for our planet, by sea.
- Acting with respect and integrity at all times, with the people we work with and the markets we operate in.
- Maintaining a comprehensive, rigorous and holistic risk control framework that ensures we operate in a safe, compliant and efficient way at all times.
- Empowering the deep expertise and leadership of our people.