Job Description Summary

Lead Architect – Tax

Responsible for delivering strategy architecture and planning activities for the specialism, supporting related operating practices and processes and effective implementation of relevant standards, liaising with collaborators and providing advanced knowledge and advice to support wider business goals.

Specialisms: Segment Architecture; Enterprise Architecture; Solution Architecture; Strategy.

ROLE SYNOPSIS

Architecture is a collaborative field, and it plays a critical role in the integration of our businesses. Architects connect all the digital subject areas and the consumers and procurers of IT, in order to create an integrated, flexible, effective technology architecture for bp. This role is 3 days a week in the office and 2 days from home, at Pune (IN).

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Architecture: You rigorously develop solution architectures, seeking practical solutions that optimize and re-use capabilities. You will be responsible for building technical designs of services or applications and will care passionately about the integrity of the Digital capabilities you develop.
• Business Area: The role is within our Business Services Architecture team which is responsible for the architecture across all of bp’s corporate services and functions. The activity area this role will focus on is across Tax developing the architecture in conjunction with the Tax leaders to facilitate the Tax process transformation and reporting within bp.
• Technology: You are an excellent technologist and have a passion for understanding and learning. You will contribute to digital transformation initiatives from an architectural perspective, facilitating the delivery of solutions. You will bring good hands-on skills in key technologies, and an ability to rapidly assess new technologies with a commercial attitude. The strategic tooling for bp Tax is through Thomson Reuters OITD and AWS and other data platforms for tax reporting.