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—helping to architect the future of one of the world’s most dynamic trading organisations.

Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide strong architectural and technical leadership, fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and communicating complex technical concepts effectively
- Lead and shape the evolving role of Solution Architect, identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit
- Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects, integrating business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions
- Document solution architectures using standard templates and tooling in compliance with Shell’s architectural standards
- Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase and review and approve detailed solution designs
- Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions
- Contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models using BizzDesign or other standard tooling
- Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insights to design future-ready solutions
- Stay informed of Shell’s IT standards and services developments and incorporate them into solution designs
- Champion architectural excellence and engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and 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 solutions in Commodities Trading
- Ownership and drive of technical architecture, design, and standards for software products
- Confident leadership of architectural decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions
- Experience with TOGAF or similar frameworks and Enterprise Architecture tooling
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with business and IT stakeholders
- Ability to listen, interpret needs, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions
- Active participation in Tech Lead and engineering communities
- Skilled in diagnosing problems and implementing innovative solutions
- Experience managing dependencies, overcoming obstacles, and maximizing value while managing trade-offs and technical debt

Technical Skills and Mastery
- Expert in one or more programming languages such as Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python
- Cloud Native Platform Development experience on Azure and/or AWS
- Expertise in front-end technologies, specifically React and Micro frontend
- Proficient in Data Development technologies including SQL Databases, NoSQL, Cloud Datastores
- Experience with JVS and OpenComponents
- Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication
- Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur modules including Managers, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling
- Proven Azure platform architecture experience including migrations and re-platforming of legacy systems
- Engineering and architecture experience designing containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)
- Solid experience in Data Architecture, logical data models, modern data platforms, and medallion-style architecture
- Strong knowledge of data management including engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, and security
- Experience with diverse data types such as big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, and longitudinal time series
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases
- Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK
- Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL
- Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps
- Substantial experience in CI/CD delivery using Git, GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible
- Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
- Leadership in engineering community to follow Shell Engineer Management standards ensuring consistency and reuse
- Ability to create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency
- Skilled in documenting Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects in High-Level Design documents
- Coordination with internal and external stakeholders including Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, and Business stakeholders

About You
You are an experienced professional who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments and is passionate about driving innovation and transformation. You bring strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills and enjoy working closely with diverse stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. You are motivated by continuous learning and development and are eager to contribute to Shell’s journey to net-zero emissions through cutting-edge technology and architecture.

Qualifications
- Relevant industry experience in Trading IT and solution architecture
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred
- Demonstrated expertise with OpenLink Endur and cloud-native architectures
- Proven track record of delivering complex IT solutions in large organisations