Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Lead Architect to shape the technology behind our Gas & Power Trading International (GPTI) business. This role sits across the full trading landscape — from front-office systems to back-office processing, data platforms, integrations and infrastructure.
You’ll take ownership of the technology roadmap, with a strong focus on the Endur (ION/OpenLink) platform and how it connects with the wider system landscape.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll work closely with product teams, programme leads and senior stakeholders (including front office) to ensure our technology is aligned, scalable and fit for the future.
You’ll play a key role in modernising our estate — moving from legacy systems to more cloud-based and hybrid solutions — while keeping performance and reliability at the level required for real-time trading.
We’re also looking for someone who can spot opportunities to improve how we work, including the use of AI, automation and smarter workflows.
In this role, you’ll produce and guide key architecture outputs such as system designs, decision records, integration patterns and target-state architectures. You’ll help ensure everything meets our standards and is aligned with wider enterprise architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy & Leadership
Define and own the GPTI target architecture roadmap, encompassing the Endur ETRM platform, surrounding trading systems, data platforms, market connectivity, risk and valuation engines, settlement, regulatory reporting and operational tooling.
Provide strategic architectural leadership across programme workstreams, ensuring that use cases (improved valuation,, internal market and others) are architecturally coherent, reusable and aligned with bp's enterprise technology strategy.
Establish and chair the GPTI Architecture Design Authority, governing all significant change through structured reviews, design challenges and sign-off gates.
Influence and advise VP/SVP-level stakeholders in Technology, Trading and Risk on technology investment decisions, build-vs-buy trade-offs and strategic platform direction.
Shape the multi-year technology modernisation strategy, balancing the need to extract maximum value from the existing Endur platform with the ambition to adopt cloud-native, event-driven and AI-augmented architectures.
ETRM & Endur Platform Architecture
Serve as the definitive technical authority on OpenLink Endur (ION), covering all production versions (v17 through v23), including AVS/JVS scripting, APM workflows, Connex/JMS integration, database architecture, simulation engines and pricing models.
Lead architecture for Endur upgrade and migration programmes, ensuring backward compatibility, data integrity and minimal disruption to 24/7 trading operations.
Govern COTS configuration vs. customisation decisions, ensuring the platform remains upgradeable, vendor-supportable and that all bespoke development is justified through formal Architecture Decision Records.
Architect the Endur integration layer, designing patterns for connectivity with market data services (Asset Control, Trayport, ICE, CME, EEX, LEBA), clearing and settlement platforms, confirmations engines, scheduling/nominations systems and downstream analytics.
Own the Endur non-functional requirements strategy, covering performance, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, security and auditability for a platform supporting real-time trading across multiple European and international markets.
Broader Gas & Power Trading Systems Architecture
Architect end-to-end front-to-back trading workflows, from deal capture and position management through risk analytics (VaR, Greeks, Monte Carlo, stress testing), P&L attribution, settlement, invoicing, confirmations and regulatory reporting (REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II, ACER).
Design and govern the market connectivity architecture, covering exchange connectivity, broker interfaces, electronic trading platforms, TSO/DSO nomination interfaces and real-time price feeds.
Lead the gas & power scheduling and nominations architecture, ensuring robust, automated and compliant connectivity with European gas balancing systems, power scheduling platforms and transmission system operators.
Define the risk and valuation platform architecture, including curve management, model calibration, scenario generation, exposure calculation and integration with front-office decision-support tools.
Architect the data landscape for gas & power trading, including canonical data models (CDM), data mesh/fabric patterns, master data management, data lineage, analytics platform integration (Foundry/Palantir) and alignment with enterprise Data Office policies across 120+ CDM groupings.
Cloud, Integration & Modern Architecture
Lead the cloud and hybrid architecture strategy for GPTI, advising on the migration of on-premise Endur and ancillary systems to cloud-hosted environments (AWS / Azure) while maintaining the performance SLAs required for real-time energy trading.
Design enterprise integration architecture, covering API management, event-driven patterns (Kafka, EventBridge), messaging (JMS, MQ), ETL/ELT pipelines, microservices and service mesh topologies.
Champion AI, ML and agentic automation opportunities within the trading technology estate — including intelligent scheduling, anomaly detection, automated P&L attribution, predictive maintenance and agentic workflow orchestration (e.g., AWS AgentCore).
Define and govern DevOps, platform engineering and observability standards, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), monitoring, alerting and incident response architecture.
People, Community & Governance
Mentor and develop the architecture community within GPTI and the wider ST&S portfolio, coaching junior architects, technical leads and senior developers to raise the overall architectural capability of the function.
Represent GPTI in enterprise-level architecture forums, ensuring alignment with bp Digital's technology strategy, cloud adoption frameworks, security policies and Technology Control Framework.
Engage at a senior level with vendor technical leadership (ION, Trayport, ICE, Palantir, AWS) on product roadmap alignment, licensing strategy, technical escalations and joint innovation opportunities.
Produce and maintain senior-level architectural artefacts, including C4 models (Context, Container, Component, Code), target-state blueprints, data flow mappings, Key Design Decisions (KDDs), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technology lifecycle assessments.
Required Skills & Experience
Extensive experience in technology roles within energy trading, commodity trading or capital markets, with at least 8 years in a senior architecture or technical leadership position.
Deep, hands-on expertise with OpenLink Endur (ION) across multiple production versions (v10+), including advanced configuration, AVS/JVS scripting, APM workflows, Connex/JMS, simulation engines, pricing models and database architecture (SQL Server / Oracle).
Comprehensive knowledge of European and international gas and power markets, covering physical and financial trading, forward/futures/options, basis risk, spark and dark spreads, gas balancing, power scheduling, nominations, LNG and cross-commodity optimisation.
Proven track record of defining and delivering enterprise-level architecture for front-to-back trading platforms, including trade capture, risk management (VaR, Greeks, Monte Carlo, stress testing), P&L attribution, settlement, confirmations and regulatory reporting.
Expert understanding of integration architecture in high-performance trading environments — including messaging (JMS, MQ, Kafka), API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), event-driven patterns, ETL/ELT, real-time market data connectivity and STP workflows.
Strong data architecture expertise, including canonical data models, data mesh/fabric concepts, master data management, data lineage, data quality and experience aligning with enterprise Data Office governance frameworks.
Significant experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure), including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS), serverless patterns and hybrid cloud architectures for latency-sensitive trading workloads.
Strong commercial awareness and stakeholder management capability, with demonstrated experience influencing VP/SVP-level decision-makers across technology, trading, risk and operations functions.
Experience producing and governing enterprise architecture artefacts such as C4 models, ArchiMate diagrams, target-state blueprints, Architecture Decision Records, NFR strategies, data flow diagrams and technology lifecycle assessments.
Experience with regulatory and compliance technology, including REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II and ACER reporting requirements and their architectural implications for trading systems.
Desirable Skills & Experience
Experience with additional ETRM platforms (e.g., Murex, TriplePoint/Aspect, Brady, Allegro) for comparative architectural insight and migration planning.
Working knowledge of Foundry (Palantir) or equivalent analytical platforms for downstream data consumption, operational analytics and decision support.
Experience architecting AI/ML and agentic automation solutions within trading technology estates, including LLM integration, RAG patterns, intelligent scheduling and predictive analytics.
Familiarity with Agile / SAFe delivery frameworks at scale, with experience embedding architecture governance into sprint-based delivery teams.
Experience with market surveillance and trade compliance platforms.
Prior experience working within bp or a major energy supermajor's trading technology function.
Experience leading architecture workstreams within large-scale transformation programmes (>£50M investment).
Understanding of carbon, environmental products and renewable energy trading systems as the energy transition evolves the trading portfolio.
Qualifications & Architecture Certifications
A relevant degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent practical experience is expected. The following architecture certifications are desirable and will be considered favourably:
Why join us?
You’ll influence one of bp’s most critical trading platforms and shape how we build technology that supports real-time decision-making in fast-moving markets. You’ll work closely with traders, market experts, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact capabilities—balancing modern architecture with the realities of live trading operations.
Travel Requirement
No travel is expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type:
This position is not available for 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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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). 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.
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 (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). 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.
