Senior Legal Engineer

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

In a constantly changing technology landscape, in-house legal functions find themselves at the cutting edge of innovation. If you want to shape the future direction of how legal brings value for our business, then this opportunity is for you: This role supports the innovation strategy for the bp Legal, Ethics & Compliance teams and builds the future of how we deliver value to the business.

bp is committed to bringing organizational change through innovation and technology and this role supports the legal functions part in that strategy. This role will support the evolution of the bp Legal, Ethics and Compliance functions. We want to push the boundaries of where we can take the function and are looking for someone to come along and challenge what’s possible and build a function that is set up to deliver value through innovation and technology.

As such we are looking for a senior professional with demonstrable experience in delivering legal solutions with wide exposure to the legal operations industry and wider legal industry in their career to date.

• Design & deliver legal solutions: Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of scalable legal technology solutions, translating legal and business requirements into structured, efficient business systems.
• Re-engineer legal processes: Transform how legal services are delivered by redesigning workflows using automation, AI, and digital tools.
• Build and configure solutions: Develop and implement automated workflows, templates, and tools using enterprise and low-code platforms.
• Integrate systems & manage data: Design integrations across legal and enterprise systems, ensuring consistent, secure, and well-structured data flows.
• Drive innovation & experimentation: Explore and pilot emerging technologies, developing proof-of-concepts and translating them into practical use cases.
• Identify high-impact opportunities: Proactively spot opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance legal service delivery through innovation.
• Bridge legal and technology teams: Act as a translator between legal partners and technical teams, shaping requirements into actionable solutions.
• Enable adoption & realize value: Support rollout and adoption of solutions, driving measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and user experience.

Essential Education: Proven experience in legal operations, legal technology or product management with Legal Tech tools.

Core Experience: Proven experience in legal solutions, legal operations, or legal engineering roles. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver technology-enabled solutions within a legal or professional services environment. Experience working with legal platforms (e.g. DMS, CLM, matter management, or workflow tools, agentic and genAI). Consistent track record of process improvement or transformation initiatives.

Technical & Solution Skills: Experience designing or configuring workflows, automation, or low-code/no-code solutions. Understanding of system integration concepts (APIs, data flows, interoperability). Ability to structure and manage legal data, metadata, and information models. Familiarity with emerging technologies (Agentic AI, generative AI, automation tools) in a legal context.

Professional Skills: Ability to translate between legal, business, and technical stakeholders. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on structured solution design. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills and team leadership skills. Experience facilitating workshops, requirements gathering, and process design sessions.

Education & Background: Degree in Law, Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Legal qualification or prior legal experience desirable but not essential.

The ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate or show experience of the following:

• Brings a product or engineering outlook to legal challenges.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional and agile environments.
• Passionate about innovation and transforming traditional ways of working.
• Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.

Why join us? At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement: Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role.

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation.

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.

Skills: Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action.