Senior Solution Architect - Endur

Solution Architect

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. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, we are seeking a skilled and seasoned Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.

We're currently looking for a seasoned Solution Architect to play a pivotal role in Shell's Trading & Supply global transformation, specifically the implementation of our Energy Trade & Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of Shell's Trading capabilities. This opportunity sits at the heart of the Trading & Supply business transformation, supporting the Global Products organisation as we establish Endur as the global backbone ETRM platform. With a modular ecosystem being designed around this foundation, you'll help shape a future ready, cloud native architecture built with flexibility, resilience, and data centricity at its core. As we move through the design phase, you will have a rare chance 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 how Shell's Trading business integrates processes, data, and systems across the value chain. This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, innovation, and impact—someone who wants to help architect the future of one of the world's most dynamic trading organisations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Architecture and Technical Leadership
• Reference Model Stewardship
• Technology Foresight
• Standards Alignment
• Community Engagement

What you bring:

Industry Knowledge:

• Minimum 10 years background in Trading IT
• Possesses extensive hands-on expertise with OpenLink Endur
• Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement

Technical Architecture & Design:

• Brings extensive experience in delivering both software and architecture delivery
• Takes full ownership and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading
• Confidently leads architectural decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions
• Creates pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value
• TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling

Collaboration & Communication:

• Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions
• Brings strong communication and collaboration abilities, supported by significant experience within trading environments
• Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions
• Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities

Problem Solving & Innovation:

• Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Shell Trading picture
• Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or technical debt

Technical Skills and Mastery:

• Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
• Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend)
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
• Expert in JVS and OpenComponents
• Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication

Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM):

• Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including All 'Managers', Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling

Azure Platform & Cloud Native:

• Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy on-premises systems
• Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)

Data Architecture, Data Management & Diverse Data Types:

• Possesses solid experience in Data Architecture, including developing logical data models and designing solutions that leverage modern data platforms and medallion-style architecture
• Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security
• Experience with diverse data types: big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases

Azure Services & Integration:

• 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

CI/CD & DevOps:

• Brings substantial experience in CI/CD delivery, working with tools such as Git, GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible

Agile & Engineering Standards:

• Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
• Lead the engineering community to follow Shell Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse
• Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives
• Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency

Documentation & Coordination:

• Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High-Level Design documents
• Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external to Shell

What we offer:

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

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Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalization, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards