Senior Solution Architect - Endur

Location: Greater London

* 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
* Brings a long-established background in Trading IT
* Possesses extensive hands-on expertise with Open Link Endur
* Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement
* 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
* 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
* 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)
* 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 No

SQL databases
* 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, Cosmos

DB, Azure SQL
* Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps
* 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
* 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…