Senior project manager
Blueprint Power
Entity:
Technology
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Job Description:
Key Accountabilities:
This role combines knowledge from traditional project management, program management, agile delivery, and
product management with a focus on delivering network infrastructure to support connectivity across bp,
including in our offshore facilities, refineries, trading floors and offices around the globe. Some of the key
accountabilities for this role include...
· End-to-end program delivery for Connectivity focused digital products, projects and programs, including
planning, execution, and tracking for scope, financials, and schedule.
· Define project scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and resource requirements
· Manage cross-functional project teams, including internal and external stakeholders.
· Identify and mitigate risks, resolve issues, and manage change throughout project lifecycle
· Develop comprehensive project plans, schedules, and communication strategies.
· Report regularly on project progress, key milestones, and budget utilization to senior leadership.
· Promote and ensure adherence to project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).
· Conduct project reviews, post-mortems, and implement continuous improvement measures.
· Ensure alignment with organizational goals, compliance standards, and stakeholder expectations.
· Application of compliance and risk management, coordinating across key teams (e.g. digital security,
procurement, legal, etc.) and accounting for global regulatory requirements
· Transparent communications between the project and its stakeholders up to the executive level
· Line Management and career growth for junior Technical Project Managers
· Championing the adoption of Technical Project and Program Manager standards and practices and
expected behaviors across the Technical Program Manager discipline.
Essential Education:
Bachelor’s or Master's Degree CS, CE, EE or equivalent experience
·PgMP, PMP, or Agile certification preferred. Equivalent experience also considered
Essential Experience and Job Requirements:
10+ years of proven experience in Project Management or Technical Delivery Management roles
· Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and deep expertise in at least one methodology
· Experience of managing large programs of work
· Strong communications skills and the ability to operate in a complex, enterprise-scale environment.
· Extensive knowledge of software development, system implementation, and product lifecycles
· Ability to take an integrated view of concurrent projects that cross team and domain boundaries and
simplify delivery by actively identifying patterns that improve efficiency and promote reuse of existing
solutions.
· Partner with managers of design and engineering teams to ensure focus on fit-for-purpose solutions and
drive efficient delivery of right outcomes for the customer and organization.
· Ability to convey detailed technical knowledge by speaking to engineering teams in their own language.
· Capable of holding an engineering team to a high standard and reviewing design decisions, recognizing
when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance.
· Big-picture thinking with the ability to relate business value to solutions to end-to-end system architecture
& it’s interdependencies all the way to operability and supportability of the system or product.
· Understands system architectures and can effectively manage changes across multiple products and
projects to ensure that the integrity of upstream or downstream dependencies is maintained.
· Understands fundamental system limitations (e.g. scaling factors, boundary conditions) and the associated
architectural decisions and uses judgement to inform technology and business trade-offs.
· Understands the consequences of short-term, tactical solutions and long-term impacts of accruing technical
debt
· Knowledge and experience of assessing testing practices, use of testing tools and techniques.
· Experience line managing others
· Experience of delivering multi-site digital infrastructure programs in complex environments
· Ability to describe digital infrastructure technologies to stakeholders of all levels of expertise.
Desirable Criteria:
Strong organizational, conflict resolution, and influencing skills.
· Demonstrated ability to support multiple simultaneous engagements.
· Ability to balance strategic and tactical concerns and apply good judgement to decisions.
· Adaptability, fluidity, speed, and initiative in unstructured contexts
· Ability to rapidly self-teach and a self-motivated desire to learn new technologies.
· Genuine curiosity and a strong drive to innovate.
· Unwavering desire to have a high impact on the organization.
· An active seeker of personal feedback and a desire for continuous growth
· Enjoys mentoring and developing more junior team members
Additional Information:
We strongly believe in the value of bringing your whole-self to our organization. We commit to equal
opportunity regardless of race, religion, creed, disability or sexual orientation. Every member of the BP family
commits to the bp Values and Behaviors and seeks to uphold these standards in all that we do.
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