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 Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.

In this pivotal role, you will contribute to Shell’s Trading & Supply global transformation by implementing our Energy Trade & Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure. You will help create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that transforms Shell’s Trading capabilities. This opportunity supports the Global Products organisation as we establish Endur as the global backbone ETRM platform.

Working within a modular ecosystem designed around this foundation, you will shape a future-ready, cloud-native architecture built with flexibility, resilience, and data centricity at its core. You will 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 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 initial remit
- Serve as 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 design phases and review/approve detailed solution designs
- Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions
- Contribute to documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models using BizzDesign or other tooling
- Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insights to design future-ready solutions
- Stay informed of Shell IT standards and services, ensuring incorporation into solution designs
- Champion architectural excellence and engage with stakeholders to address 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
- Strong leadership in architectural decisions across portfolios, balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value
- Experience with TOGAF or similar frameworks and Enterprise Architecture tooling
- Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur modules including Managers, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling
- Expertise in architecting applications on Azure platform, including migrations and re-platforming of legacy systems
- Engineering and architecture experience with containers, microservices, cloud-native applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh)
- Solid experience in Data Architecture, logical data modelling, and modern data platforms
- 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, streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, and time series
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases
- Significant experience with Azure services including Functions, Web Apps, Event Hub, Kafka, ELK, Active Directory, Data Factory, Data Lake, Storage, Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL
- Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps
- Substantial CI/CD and DevOps experience with tools such as Git, GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible
- Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
- Experience leading engineering communities to follow Shell Engineering Management standards

About you
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with ability to engage business and IT stakeholders
- Ability to listen, interpret needs, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions
- Active participant in wider Tech Lead and engineering communities
- Problem solver with innovative mindset, able to manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value
- Comfortable working in complex, fast-paced environments and driving strategic improvements

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 architectures
- Knowledge of JVS and OpenComponents is a plus
- Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, and multifactor authentication advantageous
- TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification preferred
- Motivation letter required outlining reasons for applying and alignment with job requirements