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 implementing our Energy Trade & Risk Management (ETRM) solution, Endur, on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of Shell’s Trading capabilities. You will help shape a future-ready, cloud-native architecture built with flexibility, resilience, and data centricity at its core.

As part of the design phase, 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 and driving consensus
- Lead and shape the evolving role of Solution Architect, identifying opportunities and driving innovation
- Serve as the 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 standard templates and tooling complying with Shell’s architectural standards
- Guide detailed designers and business analysts during design phases and review solution designs
- Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions
- Contribute to documentation and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or other tooling
- Monitor emerging IT technologies to design future-ready solutions
- Stay informed of Shell’s IT standards and ensure alignment in solution designs
- Champion architectural excellence and engage with 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 solutions in Commodities Trading
- Strong ownership of technical architecture, design, and standards
- Experience leading architectural decisions across portfolios and managing diverse opinions
- 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 designs
- Solid experience in Data Architecture, data management, and working with diverse data types
- Significant experience with Azure services such as Functions, Web Apps, Event Hub, Data Factory, Kubernetes, CosmosDB, and SQL
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible
- Practical agile experience in both startup and enterprise environments
- Strong documentation and coordination skills across business process, data, application, technical, and security domains

About you
- Collaborative leader with strong communication skills able to engage business and IT stakeholders
- Ability to listen, interpret needs, manage expectations, and facilitate technical and business discussions
- Innovative problem solver who can diagnose issues and implement solutions aligned with Shell’s Trading strategy
- Comfortable working in complex, fast-paced environments and managing trade-offs and technical debt
- Motivated to drive architectural excellence and continuous improvement within the organisation

Qualifications
- Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python
- Experience with front-end technologies including React and Micro frontends
- Knowledge of data development technologies including SQL, NoSQL, and cloud datastores
- Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, and multifactor authentication is desirable
- Experience with containerization, microservices, cloud-native applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh)
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred