Lead Architect Tax
Job Description Summary
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.
Safety and Compliance: The safety of our people and customers is our highest priority. You will advocate and help ensure our architectures, designs and processes enhance a culture of operational safety and improve our digital security.
- Team: You will lead several delivery teams directly or by influence. You will play an integral role in building the team's skills while demonstrating your leadership values through delegation, motivation and trust. You will not just lead, but do.
Relationships: You will build strong relationships across the business and Digital teams. You will understand the long-term needs of the solutions you are developing, and enable delivery by building a rapport with team members both inside and outside of bp.
FORMAL EDUCATION
- A Bachelor's (or higher) degree, ideally in Computer Science, MIS/IT, Mathematics, chartered accountancy, engineering, or equivalent work experience.
DESIRABLE SKILLS / CRITERIA
A background in consulting and architecture with real-world experience of architecting, designing, and delivering transformational projects within the finance/tax process areas.
You have been the lead architect on a large-scale transformation programme for Finance and Tax
Deep-seated functional knowledge of key technology sets including SAP, S/4 HANA, TR OITD, SAP GTS. Additionally knowledge on SAP SAC, DRC, ADH (data lake) and other Tax applications such as Longview will b added advantage.
You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves, getting involved, and diving into delivery challenges as well as discussing technical concepts with a non-technical audience.
Experience in being part of a tight-knit delivery team. You accomplish exceptional project outcomes in a respectful and supportive culture.
A proven grasp of architecture development (TOGAF 9 certified) and design thinking in an agile environment.
You adapt delivery techniques to drive outstanding project delivery.
- The ability to relate complex topics in simple and accessible language.
You have worked for a large multi-national on Tax programs.
Leadership & EQ
- You create an environment where people listen and speak openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that everyone can understand and learn.
You promote a culture of change and agility, evolve continuously, adapting to our changing world.
You work across organizational boundaries and build high quality, trust-based relationships with leaders and employees within innovation & engineering and the wider BP, applying cultural sensitivity.
- You apply judgement and common sense at scale.
