Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Please note that candidates are permitted to apply for only one bp Early Careers opportunity globally within a 180-day period. If multiple applications are submitted within this timeframe, only the first application received will be considered. Any subsequent applications will be withdrawn from the selection process.

Early careers at bp

Looking to turn your career dreams into global impact? Explore graduate opportunities with bp where you get to work on challenging projects, learn from experts and mentors, and be part of a high-performing team from the start. You get the freedom to think boldly, the license to innovate and the chance to keep growing, while being supported, recognized and rewarded along the way.

One Digital graduate program

bp has a bold transformation agenda as it seeks to provide secure, affordable, lower carbon energy to the world. Digital lies at the heart of this transformation and bp is looking to recruit digital talent to help solve the most complex problems of the future.

The One Digital early careers program provides a range of foundational career experiences and a gateway to an exciting and rewarding digital career.  This is a three-year program, comprised of three, 12-month rotations.

As a graduate, you will follow a structured development path to build technical skills, knowledge and experience in a global business setting. Gain capability through challenging development assignments and grow a toolkit of transferable personal and professional skills, with a dedicated network of support and a vibrant early careers community to help you succeed.

About the discipline: Data & AI and Digital Engineering

The digital disciplines in bp Technology facilitate the development of skills and experience, career progression and digital talent. These disciplines include specialist sub-disciplines which focus on enhancing and empowering our digital capability.

Data & AI: We build data products, derive actionable insights, build ML/AI applications using analytics, data science and AI. This includes:

• Data engineering (architecture) and data management
• Data science and machine learning engineering
• Data analytics
• AI engineering

Digital engineering: We have the deep technical expertise to plan, architect, build, engineer, operate, and maintain our digital estate. This includes:

• Software engineering
• Enterprise technology
• Software development engineering in test
• Architecture
• Site reliability engineering

Role and responsibilities

This role will be part of the Data & AI and Digital Engineering discipline. During the One Digital program duration, you may be placed in a different role within this discipline at rotation.

Working alongside experienced professionals, you will contribute to the design, development, delivery, and support of digital solutions that create business value.

You may:

• Design, build, automate, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable cloud-based solutions using technologies across AWS and Azure.
• Develop software applications, services, and APIs using modern programming languages
• Participate in web and mobile application development using modern frameworks and development practices.
• Support the implementation of engineering best practices, including agile delivery, automation, testing, observability, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with business subject matter experts, product teams, data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and platform engineers to solve complex business challenges.
• Explore, prepare, analyze, and interpret data from a variety of sources to identify trends, opportunities, and actionable insights.
• Contribute to the development of data products, analytics solutions, machine learning models, and AI-enabled applications that drive business outcomes.
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuously learn and apply emerging technologies, engineering practices, and data and AI capabilities.

This role offers the opportunity to develop both technical and business capabilities while building a strong foundation across the Data & AI and Digital Engineering discipline.

Minimum Requirements

• Graduating between December 2026 and May 2027 or have completed your degree in the last three years.
• Current Cumulative GPA Minimum 3.0
• Eligible to work in the U.S. with no restrictions (bp will not support U.S. Immigration sponsorship for full-time or long-term employment)
• Must be available to start on agreed upon global program start date (June 21, 2027).
• Geographically mobile and willing to relocate to Houston, TX (Relocation plan available)
• Working toward a Bachelor's degree in: Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Games Programming, or a related discipline.
• A grasp of development fundamentals (in high-level languages such as C#/Java/Python/R)
• An understanding of modern software development methodologies, including Agile (Scrum and/or Kanban) practices.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with an understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• A good understanding of mathematical concepts, including statistics, probability, and linear algebra.
• Familiarity with data analysis, SQL, Python, and analytical tools.
• Basic understanding of version control systems (such as Git) and collaborative software development practices.
• A willingness and ability to learn new technologies, programming languages, platforms, and ways of working.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

 

Please note: We're looking for proactive, inclusive team players who strive for excellence and respond positively to change and challenges in a supportive environment.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• One-time sign-on bonus
• Annual cash bonus opportunity
• Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
• Relocation and moving assistance, based on eligibility
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new starters
• Structured graduate development, including meaningful assignments, skills development, mentoring and access to the broader bp Early Careers community
• Hybrid working – please note, bp operates on a 60:40 hybrid working work policy (3 days in the office) for most office-based roles.

You may learn more about our generous benefits here Explore Our Benefits.  

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Cloud Platforms, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modeling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Solution Architecture, Source control and code management {+ 5 more}

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