Principal Platform Engineer

Overview

• Define and maintain a platform convergence strategy that articulates the current-state landscape, the target architecture, and a credible transition path — enabling bp’s engineering platforms and SaaS solutions to operate as an integrated whole.
• Lead architectural design and decision-making at the intersection of internal platforms and enterprise SaaS, establishing integration patterns, data contracts, and governance standards that apply consistently across the platform estate.
• Act as the principal technical authority for platform engineering across the digital delivery organisation, providing expert guidance on platform design, cloud-native patterns, and systems integration to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
• Drive resolution of complex cross-platform integration challenges, including identity, data flow, event-driven architecture, and API design — ensuring that integration decisions are durable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Produce and maintain high-quality architecture strategy documents, reference architectures, and decision records that are accessible to both engineering and executive audiences, building shared understanding of the platform direction.
• Collaborate with AI engineering, software engineering, and external vendor and partner teams to ensure that platform architecture decisions enable and do not constrain the delivery of business and AI-powered capabilities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in platform engineering (including Kubernetes) and the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale, multi-component platform estates in a cloud-native environment.
• Proven enterprise architecture capability, including experience producing target-state architecture strategies and navigating complex system landscapes spanning internal platforms and third-party SaaS.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns: containerisation and orchestration, service mesh, API gateway design, event streaming, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrable experience integrating enterprise SaaS solutions — including ERP or business application platforms — with internally developed systems, covering API, identity, and data integration patterns.
• Track record of operating as a senior technical authority in a large organisation, influencing architecture and engineering decisions at scale without direct management responsibility.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to convey complex architectural concepts clearly to technical peers, delivery teams, and senior business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical subject area or equivalent experience.

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