Senior Development Systems Engineer

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

bpx energy, a major oil and gas producer in the United States, leverages its expertise in unconventional gas, including shale, to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana, our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions.

As part of BP, a global industry leader, we foster a high-energy, high-intensity environment built on accountability, collegiality, innovation, and empowerment. At bpx, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where collaboration, continuous improvement, and inclusion are valued.

Discover your place with us and help our business meet the challenges of reimagining and reinventing the future of energy.

We are seeking a Senior Development Systems Engineer to join our Corporate Land team. This individual contributor will bridge business operations and technical delivery, independently building scalable automation, data, and AI-enabled solutions while contributing to architecture, standards, and roadmap decisions. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer who can own complex work streams, partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders, and deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.

• Serve as a senior technical partner to Corporate Land and data teams, translating business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Lead hands-on design, development, testing, and deployment of automation workflows, data products, and AI-enabled tools that reduce manual effort and improve decisions.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, queries, applications, and analytical products using Snowflake, Databricks, Palantir, and related platforms.
• Apply established engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, security, and deployment, and recommend improvements where needed.
• Own complex work streams and contribute to prioritization and roadmap development based on business value, feasibility, and dependencies.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and deliver iterative solutions in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
• Participate in solution design and code reviews, share technical knowledge, and provide practical coaching to analysts and business users.
• Develop documentation, training materials, and user guidance that support adoption and sustainable ownership of new tools.
• Monitor and optimize deployed solutions for performance, reliability, adoption, and cost efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, automation, analytics engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience independently delivering complex, production-grade data, software, automation, or AI solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with demonstrated ability to produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Palantir, including querying, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT, APIs, governance, security, CI/CD, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience owning technical work streams, contributing to solution design and code reviews, and supporting less-experienced contributors.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple…