Data Architect

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Castrol is a global leader in lubricants and part of the bp Group, one of the world’s largest energy companies. In India, Castrol is a publicly listed company, leading in the Automotive, Industrial, and Marine lubricant sectors. With iconic brands, steadfast innovation, strong customer relationships, and a team of highly motivated employees, we have maintained our market leadership in India for over a century. Our robust manufacturing and distribution network in India helps us reach consumers through more than 135,000 outlets. At Castrol, success knows no bounds. We offer a fast-paced learning environment where you can develop your career, whether in specialized functions or on a general management track. Castrol India has a proud legacy of championing top talent for leadership roles, both locally and globally.   This is a role within the Castrol organisation, and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence.  If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.  

About the role:

Work in partnership with stakeholders across, IT, Global Data & Analytics, FBT, and Castrol business units (PUs, Hubs, Functions, and Markets) to motivate change, adoption, and long-term sustainability of the Castrol data ecosystem.

Champion the behaviours and practices required to deliver strategic transformation, ensuring data capabilities are sustainable, scalable, and aligned to the Digital Business Strategy. Operate fluently within agile delivery models, with the flexibility to act as SME, Product Owner, or Scrum Master depending on project needs and scale.

Working alongside business partners in, IT, Global Data & Analytics, FBT and Castrol’s PUs, HUBs, Functions and Markets to manage the change, the adoption and the sustainability of the Castrol Data eco system. Behaviours to drive the strategic transformation, ensuring that the end state across all Data areas are sustainable and operationally are aligned to expectations of the Digital Business Strategy. Role is fluent in operating agile methodology and can act as an SME, product owner or scrum master based on the subject and/or scale of project

Shift Timing : 1:30pm to 10:30pm/ 2:30pm to 11:30pm IST

Key Responsibilities:

Across all data areas across all major ERPs, source systems and digital landscape: Manages the Design of the Castrol data eco system, Data taxonomy alignment, Data Archetyping, Snowflake data modelling and ensuring sustainability and agile CI through-out its lifecycle, documented and supported by the Data Management Framework.

Governs the Data Management Framework repository (Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Modelling, data compliance and data security) for all data areas across all the main ERPs and source systems and digital landscape.

Governs data challenges for digital, Data and Analytics frame defined by Castrol data strategy, IT, Global Data & Analytics team, FBT and Castrol’s PU, HUB, Functions and Markets and applies knowledge of end to end Digital, Analytics and Data strategic view of the Data Management framework, across all impacted functions/business areas and hand-offs to ensure accuracy, a balanced digital or data solution is designed, which optimises business performance and supports excellence in the Castrol customer offer.

Acts as an Integrator for interfacing internal and 3rd party data connected to the Castrol Data Fabric ensuring alignment to the Castrol strategic digital agenda and supports the capability of the future.

Recommend the above to Global data analytics team lead, lead process specialist and to business stakeholders

Recommend CI opportunities, capability development and toolkit to the Digital Operational Excellence Manager and business stakeholders

Experience & Qualifications:​ Degree level education in analytical field, preferably engineering (or 10 yrs+, relevant experience)

Demonstrable deep experience of successfully delivering ERP data strategy and ETL transformation as part of a major ERP implementation, Enterprise Data lake delivery and major business transformation projects.

Deep understanding in multiple Data areas and the integration points with other data and process areas to ensure successful delivery of end to end with relevant experience in data modelling, data lineage, data normalisation and data process design.

Deep understanding of turning data into insights to demonstrate end to end lineage and normalisation demonstrating fluent use of queries, data models and Power BI.

Be able to bring an insightful story and speak with confidence in owned area.

Tenacious in getting issues resolved and collaborative solution-oriented thinking while balancing Digital Business strategy and Data Management frameworks

Skills & Competencies: Strategic agile problem solver and leader

Expertise in one or more ERP systems (SAP/R3, SAP/S4, JDE)

Skilful in navigating and extracting from ERP data layers and ERP lineage assessments.

Skilful in insights generation using visualisation tool like Power BI

Skilful in managing data modelling tools like ERStudio

Work across multiple levels of detail: data lineage, data normalisation, data quality (simple & complex), data security, process design principles, operating model intent and systems design

Strong influencing skills to bring expertise and experience to shape value delivery

Proven leadership skills and track record of successful deployment in multiple areas, across input and output success criteria measures

The most important Castrol Behaviours for successful delivery in this role are: Respect - Build strong relationships based on trust and honest discussion Excellence - Learn and apply the standard processes of Castrol, act with professionalism and strive for excellent execution One team - Support those I work with and help to build the effectiveness of my team to deliver the best results

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. 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, and 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. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

Travel Requirement: No travel is 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: Change control, Conflict Management, Construction, Cost Estimating, Design development and delivery, Frameworks and methodologies, Governance arrangements, Performance management, Portfolio Management, Project and construction safety, Project Commissioning, Project execution planning, Project HSSE, Project Leadership, Project Team Management, Quality, Requirements Management, Reviews, Risk Management, Schedule and resources, Sourcing Management, Stakeholder Management, start-up and handover, Strategy and business case, Supplier Management .

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please  contact us .

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