Senior Solution Architect

bp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Excellent retirement benefits

Job summary

bp is seeking a Senior Solution Architect for the biofuels domain within Refining and Products Trading. The role focuses on defining the technology vision, ensuring architectural coherence across applications, and guiding data-driven decisions to deliver scalable, compliant solutions.

Hybrid working model with global collaboration, occasional travel up to 10%, and strong leadership to align technology with business strategy.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in solution, domain or enterprise architecture roles.
• Strong functional understanding of biofuels, trading or compliance environments.
• Proven track record leading architecture across multiple teams, products or programmes.
• Familiarity with TOGAF or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the architecture vision and roadmap for the biofuels domain.
• Ensure architectural coherence across multiple products, platforms and teams.
• Lead complex design decisions and resolve cross-domain trade-offs.
• Define and evolve architecture standards, patterns and reference architectures.
• Provide leadership across cloud, integration and data architecture.
• Shape data strategy including domain models, governance and interoperability.
• Find opportunities for optimisation, automation and advanced analytics including AI/ML.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align technology direction with business strategy.
• Lead architecture governance and represent the domain in decision forums.

Skills

Biofuels domain knowledge

Cloud architecture (AWS)

Data architecture

Architecture governance

Strategic roadmapping

Stakeholder leadership

TOGAF familiarity

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing and producing energy in the regions where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

Join bp’s Refining and Products Trading as a Senior Solution Architect focusing on biofuels. This is a unique opportunity to shape the digital backbone supporting a rapidly evolving and strategically important part of bp’s portfolio.

You will define and drive the technology vision supporting biofuels trading, compliance and supply chain operations, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient and aligned to regulatory and commercial priorities. This role operates at domain level, influencing how multiple products and platforms come together to deliver business outcomes.

You will work with senior business and technology leaders to simplify complexity, guide investment decisions and unlock value through modern architecture and data-driven capabilities.

• Hybrid working model
• Collaboration across global teams
• Occasional travel (up to 10%)

In This Role You Will

• Own and drive the architecture vision and roadmap for the biofuels domain
• Ensure architectural coherence across multiple products, platforms and teams
• Lead complex design decisions and resolve cross-domain trade-offs
• Define and evolve architecture standards, patterns and reference architectures
• Provide leadership across cloud, integration and data architecture
• Shape data strategy including domain models, governance and interoperability
• Find opportunities for optimisation, automation and advanced analytics including AI/ML
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align technology direction with business strategy
• Lead architecture governance and represent the domain in decision forums

Essential Experience and Requirements

• Extensive experience in solution, domain or enterprise architecture roles
• Strong functional understanding of biofuels, trading or compliance environments
• Proven experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or programmes
• Strong expertise in cloud (AWS), integration and data architecture
• Track record of defining strategy and long-term roadmaps
• Strong collaborator engagement skills at senior leadership level
• Experience establishing and enforcing architecture governance and standards
• Familiarity with TOGAF or similar frameworks

Desirable Criteria

• Deep experience in biofuels or regulatory/compliance-driven environments
• Exposure to optimisation or advanced analytics platforms
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and data products
• Practical experience applying AI, ML or GenAI in trading or supply chain contexts

Why Join Us?

At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, 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, excellent retirement benefits, among others.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% 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, Business modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Data design, Digital Analytics, Emerging technology monitoring, Information Assurance, Integration, IT Management, IT strategy and planning, Network Design, Requirements definition and management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Solution Architecture, Systems Development Management, Technical specialism, User Experience Analysis

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