Location
London - Shell Centre

Hours
Full Time - Regular

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 Principal Architect collaborates on architectural guidance to organise and structure the delivery of AI use cases leveraging AI Platform foundational services.

The role 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.

The Principal Architect ensures 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 role is accountable for architecture direction, decision coherence, and architecture outcomes across connected domains, portfolios, or enterprise transformation landscapes. It 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.

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

About you
Strategic thinker with strong leadership skills capable of managing multi-layer architecture teams. Ability to influence enterprise technology strategy and transformation outcomes using market, technology, regulatory, and business insights. Committed to embedding responsible AI principles including data quality, transparency, security, privacy, explainability, human oversight, auditability, operational support, and regulatory compliance.

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