Senior Solution Architect - Endur

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

• 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

• 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