Location
London - Shell Centre

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Principal Architect for Trading & Supply (T&S) Data & Analytics is accountable for defining and governing the architecture that enables T&S’ data-powered future. This role leads the design and evolution of an integrated data ecosystem that connects data, digital services, and enterprise intelligence at scale, ensuring data and analytics capabilities are secure, reusable, interoperable, and aligned with business outcomes. The role collaborates on architectural guidance to organise and structure the delivery of AI use cases leveraging AI Platform foundational services.

The Principal Architect is responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of the T&S Data Platform landscape, providing foundational capabilities required for trusted and AI-ready data consumption. This includes ownership of architectural direction, standards, integration patterns, and platforms, ensuring these services are established as reusable T&S capabilities.

Solutions are architected once and leveraged many times, balancing innovation with governance, scalability, maintainability, and long-term value creation. Working across various parts of the T&S business, data, digital, and technology teams, the role drives adoption of common platforms, architectural patterns, and delivery approaches that accelerate business value realisation while reducing duplication and technical debt.

The Principal Architect is accountable for architecture direction, decision coherence, and architecture outcomes across connected domains, portfolios, or enterprise transformation landscapes. The role translates business and enterprise strategy into target architectures, investment roadmaps, standards, and guardrails, ensuring architecture decisions create enterprise value, reduce complexity, and enable safe, scalable digital, data, and analytics transformation.

Key accountabilities include providing architecture leadership aligned with business strategy and technology investments, acting as enterprise decision authority for significant architecture choices, representing architecture in executive governance forums, shaping portfolio and technology investment decisions, and leading a multi-layer architecture organisation including line management of Lead Architects.

The role also sets strategic technology direction, leads the data-first architecture transformation, champions responsible AI embedding in architecture decisions, and influences enterprise technology strategy using market, technology, regulatory, and business insights.

Experience
Extensive IT experience including senior architecture leadership roles in large-scale, complex, multi-domain technology environments. Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide architecture transformation and strategic technology initiatives. Knowledge of the trading business domain is preferred, with commodity trading knowledge considered an advantage.

About you
Experienced professional with strong leadership skills and the ability to influence at executive levels. Strategic thinker capable of translating business strategy into architectural roadmaps. Passionate about innovation, governance, and delivering scalable, maintainable solutions. Committed to embedding responsible AI principles including data quality, transparency, security, privacy, explainability, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.