Location
London - Shell Centre

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Shell is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net-zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting Shell’s strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation to drive transformative shifts in IT. We are seeking a skilled and seasoned Senior Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation within Shell’s Trading & Supply global transformation.

This role focuses on the implementation of our Energy Trade & Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure, creating a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of Shell’s Trading capabilities. You will support the Global Products organisation as we establish Endur as the global backbone ETRM platform, designing a modular ecosystem around this foundation.

You will help shape a future-ready, cloud-native architecture built with flexibility, resilience, and data centricity at its core. This is a unique opportunity to influence architectural decisions from the ground up, define how a modern ETRM landscape should operate at global scale, and drive a paradigm shift in integrating processes, data, and systems across the Trading value chain.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives on complexity, innovation, and impact, and who wants to help architect the future of one of the world’s most dynamic trading organisations.

Key responsibilities include:
- Provide strong architecture and technical leadership, fostering collaboration and driving consensus
- Lead architectural decisions and shape the evolving role of Solution Architect
- Serve as primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects
- Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions
- Document solution architectures using Shell’s standards and tooling
- Guide detailed designers and business analysts during design phases
- Review and approve detailed solution designs
- Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions
- Contribute to Reference Model stewardship and enhancement
- Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insights to future-ready solutions
- Stay aligned with Shell’s IT standards and services
- Champion architectural excellence and engage stakeholders to drive strategic improvements

Experience
- Extensive background in Trading IT with hands-on expertise in OpenLink Endur
- Deep knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through settlement
- Proven experience delivering software and architecture in Commodities Trading
- Strong ownership of technical architecture, design, and standards
- Experience leading architectural decisions across portfolios
- Familiarity with TOGAF or similar frameworks and Enterprise Architecture tooling
- Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur modules and services
- Expertise in architecting applications on Azure platform including migrations and cloud-native design
- Experience designing containers, microservices, cloud-native applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh)
- Solid experience in Data Architecture, logical data models, and modern data platforms
- Strong knowledge of data management, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle, privacy, and security
- Proficiency with diverse data types including big data, streaming, IoT, and time series
- Significant experience with Azure services such as Functions, Web Apps, Event Hub, Kafka, Data Factory, Data Lake, Storage, Kubernetes, CosmosDB, and SQL
- Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps
- Substantial CI/CD and DevOps experience with tools like Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible
- Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
- Experience leading engineering communities and enforcing engineering standards

About you
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with business and IT stakeholders
- Ability to listen, interpret, and manage expectations of technical and business stakeholders
- Active participant in technical and engineering communities
- Problem solver with innovative mindset, able to manage dependencies and trade-offs
- Comfortable working in complex, fast-paced environments and driving impact

Qualifications
- Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python
- Experience with front-end technologies, specifically React and Micro frontend
- Knowledge of data development technologies including SQL, NoSQL, and cloud datastores
- Experience with JVS and OpenComponents is a plus
- Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, and multifactor authentication is desirable
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred