4393 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- 15+ years relevant experience in IT systems engineering within large-scale industrial, petrochemical, or refining environments.
- Strong technical expertise across networks, cybersecurity, enterprise/OT architecture, applications, and digital system integration.
- Proven ability to work across owner/operator and contractor environments.
- Experience with major energy, refining or chemicals projects; knowledge of Middle Eastern project environments beneficial.
- Understanding of heavy oil upgrading, hydroprocessing, ethylene cracking, offsites/utilities, or similar downstream operations (an advantage).
Responsibilities
- Provide IT and digital systems expertise to align with project objectives and technical strategies.
- Lead development and optimisation of engineering philosophies, standards, procedures, and specifications relating to IT systems.
- Ensure technical maturity meets expectations across pre-FEED and FEED stages.
- Oversee contractor design deliverables, ensuring alignment with Our Clients IT standards, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Define and steward requirements for enterprise IT, industrial networks, OT interfaces, cloud/on-premise architectures, and data management frameworks.
- Ensure secure, reliable interaction between operational technology systems, control networks, historian platforms, and digital applications.
- Review proposals for network architecture, server/storage design, virtualisation, cloud strategy, and disaster recovery.
- Ensure adherence to cybersecurity standards, regional data protection regulations, and internal engineering governance.
- Develop and execute an engineering surveillance programme to ensure design integrity and compliance.
Description
We are a major player in the petrochemical industry, committed to delivering a large-scale refinery upgrade programme aimed at modernising existing assets while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Our Project Management Team requires an experienced IT Systems Engineering Lead to support the pre-FEED and FEED phases of this complex development. This is a senior technical leadership role located in Reading, UK, offering a contract of 12 months with the opportunity for immediate contribution to a transformative project.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 95 different System Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good System Engineers.