IT Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a contract IT Software Engineer .  This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 4-month duration.   Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position. 

About the Role

• Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results.
• Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design.
• Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential.
• Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support.
• Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure.

Project: Deal Entry Portal (DEP)
Shell trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Shell's Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavours basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry.
Business case: Shell trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Shell's Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavours basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry

Mandatory Skills

• API development using Python as OOP
• Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
• Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
• Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language
• Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features --Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
• Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Experience at mentoring junior staff

Please Note: The ECI Group uses AI-assisted tools in the early stages of application review, with all decisions guided by human oversight and fully compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ECI Group's applicable data protection policies and Privacy Notice.

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