Overview
In this Solution Architect role, you will help shape Shell’s cloud-native ETRM landscape on Azure, driving a scalable and secure architecture for global trading capabilities. You’ll influence architectural decisions from design through delivery, coordinating across data, processes, and security to support the Trading & Supply transformation. You will lead architecture discussions, mentor designers, and ensure robust, standards-aligned solutions that enable fast, safe innovation. This position offers a unique chance to impact Shell’s trading systems at scale within a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
Pay / Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Remote/mobile working options
- Competitive salary with annual reviews
- Paid parental leave
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Wide range of training and development programmes
Responsibilities
- Provide strong architectural leadership and foster cross-team collaboration
- Serve as the primary architectural contact for IT projects
- Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security in IT solutions
- Ensure architectures are documented to Shell standards
- Guide detailed designers and analysts and review solution designs
- Participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as needed
- Contribute to Reference Models in BizzDesign or other tooling
- Elevate deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels
- Monitor technology foresight and apply insights to future-ready designs
- Stay aligned with Shell IT standards and services in solution designs
- Champion architectural excellence and engage stakeholders on strategic improvements
Key requirements
- Long-established Trading IT background
- Hands-on OpenLink Endur experience
- End-to-end understanding of the trading lifecycle
- Extensive software and architecture delivery experience
- Ownership of software product architecture, design, and standards in commodities trading
- Proven leadership in architectural decisions across portfolios
- TOGAF or similar EA framework experience
- Strong collaboration and communication with business and IT stakeholders
- Problem solving and innovation mindset to manage dependencies and technical debt
- Experience with leading engineering communities according to Shell standards
- Collaboration and stakeholder management
- Clear communication of complex technical concepts
- Leadership and influence beyond initial remit
- Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python (expertise)
- Azure/AWS cloud-native development
- React and micro-frontend front-end tech
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