BP

Lead Development Systems Engineer

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24 hours ago
Denver, CO, USA or Houston, TX, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$170k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical lead and solutions architect for Corporate Land.
  • Own solution architecture and end-to-end delivery for automation, data, analytics, and AI-enabled products.
  • Design and guide data pipelines, queries, applications, and analytical products using Snowflake, Databricks, Palantir, and related platforms.
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns, technical standards, and quality controls for code, testing, documentation, observability, security, and deployment.
  • Build and maintain a prioritized technical roadmap aligned with business strategy and enterprise architecture.
  • Lead technical decisions involving scalability, maintainability, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
  • Influence cross-functional stakeholders and partner with data, architecture, security, and business teams.
  • Mentor engineers, analysts, and business builders through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, and knowledge transfer.
  • Monitor solution performance, reliability, adoption, and cost, and lead continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, automation, analytics engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • Experience leading architecture and end-to-end delivery of complex, production-grade data, software, automation, or AI solutions.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL with experience producing clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
  • Advanced hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Palantir, including data modeling and performance optimization.
  • Strong knowledge of data architecture, ETL/ELT, APIs, governance, security, CI/CD, observability, and software development lifecycle practices.
  • Experience setting technical direction, defining reusable standards, conducting design and code reviews, and mentoring technical contributors.
  • Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and make decisions across competing priorities.
  • Experience in energy or oil and gas, particularly land, ownership, contracts, leases, or title, is desirable.
  • Experience building internal applications, workflow tools, dashboards, self-service analytics products, AI-enabled applications, or using prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM APIs is desirable.
  • Experience with AWS or Azure and infrastructure-as-code concepts, Airflow, dbt, or Databricks Workflows is desirable.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off.
  • Discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Long-term incentive program.
  • 401(k) matching program.
  • Hybrid office/remote work arrangement.
  • Negligible travel is expected.
  • The role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSAzureDatabricksdbtPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About BP

10,000+ employees

BP is a global, publicly traded energy company that explores and produces oil and gas, refines and markets fuels and lubricants (including the Castrol brand), and trades energy products for consumers and industrial customers. It also operates convenience and retail fuel networks and invests in EV charging (bp pulse), bioenergy, and wind and solar projects. Founded in 1909 and headquartered in London, it is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges.

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