Senior Solution Architect - Endur

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:

• Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts

• Not only lead in your area of expertise but also play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact that extends beyond the initial remit. As the organization grows, your role is expected to evolve, offering continuous opportunities for development, influence, and leadership

• 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

• Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with Shell’s architectural standards

• Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase

• Review and formally approve detailed solution designs

• Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required

• Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling

• Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels

• Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future-ready solutions for Shell

• Stay informed of developments in Shell’s IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs

• Champion architectural excellence within the organisation

• Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements

• Brings a long-established 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

Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages:

• 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

Shell is a vital contributor to the UK, supporting energy security, jobs and economic value. We provide energy to fuel homes, hospitals, schools, vehicles, machinery and factories. Our history here dates back over 125 years. A UK-headquartered global energy leader, and leading FTSE multinational, we are active across the country’s energy system.

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