Sr. Solution Architect - Endur

Shell•Houston, TX

12d•$149,000 - $223,000

About The Position

Shell is seeking a Solution Architect to provide end-to-end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects in the Products portfolio for Shell’s Trading and Supply business. The role focuses on a project implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure, creating a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape to transform Trading capabilities. The architect ensures applications are well designed and aligned with Shell standards and reference architecture, integrating business process, data, application, technical, and information-security considerations. The position provides technical leadership, serves as the primary architectural contact for IT projects, guides design teams, and reviews and formally approves solution designs. It also contributes to reference models, monitors emerging technologies, applies Shell standards, and champions architectural excellence through stakeholder engagement. The role calls for hands-on expertise in OpenLink Endur, Azure, cloud-native architecture, data platforms, integration, and engineering practices, alongside collaboration with business and IT stakeholders and third parties. The position is based in Texas, United States. The posted base salary range is $149,000–$223,000 per year. Shell describes opportunities for professional development, flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote or mobile working. Regular employees may have access to medical, dental, vision, life, travel accident and occupational accidental death coverage, a company pension and 401(k), paid vacation and holidays, parental leave, disability coverage, and reimbursements for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses. Some roles may be eligible for discretionary long-term incentives.

Requirements

Legal authorization to work in the United States full-time for an employer other than the current employer.
Bachelor’s degree.
At least 10 years of experience in Trading IT.
At least 10 years of experience with OpenLink Endur v14 or later.
Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading business, from deal inception through settlement.
At least 10 years in software and architecture delivery.
At least 5 years of experience in trading environments, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
Experience with TOGAF or a similar framework and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including all Managers, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, and Deal Modelling.
Hands-on experience architecting applications on Azure, including migration or re-platforming of legacy on-premise systems.
Experience designing and building containers, microservices, cloud-native applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh).
At least 3 years of experience in Data Architecture, including logical data models and solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
Strong knowledge of data management, including engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, and security.
Experience with diverse data types, including big data, high-velocity streaming, IoT, low-latency event triggers, and longitudinal time series.
Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (Event Hub, Event Bus, Kafka), and ELK.
Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, and Azure SQL.
Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, and Logic Apps.
At least 5 years of CI/CD delivery experience using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible.
Practical agile experience in both startup and enterprise environments.
Ability to lead architecture decisions, create implementable designs, interpret stakeholder needs, and manage trade-offs and technical debt.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Node.js, .NET, .NET Core, or Python, with cloud-native platform development on Azure or AWS.
Expertise in front-end development technologies, specifically React and micro frontends.
Expertise in data development technologies, including SQL databases, NoSQL, and cloud datastores.
Expertise in JVS and OpenComponents.
Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, and multifactor authentication.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership, foster collaboration, drive consensus, and communicate complex technical concepts.
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.
Document solution architectures using standard templates and tooling in compliance with Shell architectural standards.
Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
Support the Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
Contribute to documenting, enhancing, and maintaining Reference Models in BizzDesign or other standard tooling.
Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insights to future-ready Shell solutions.
Stay current with Shell IT standards and services and incorporate them into solution designs.
Champion architectural excellence, engage stakeholders on architectural concerns, and drive strategic improvements.
Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
Lead architecture decisions across portfolios, manage differing opinions, and create pragmatic designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
Diagnose problems, implement innovative solutions, manage dependencies and obstacles, and maximize value while managing trade-offs and technical debt.
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders on strategic and day-to-day technical decisions, interpret needs, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
Participate in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities and promote Shell engineering management standards, consistency, and reuse.
Coordinate and develop information with Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, business stakeholders, and other third parties, internally and externally.
Document business process, data, application, technical, and information-security aspects of IT solutions in High-Level Design documents.
Deliver core engineering GPA objectives and foster a collaborative environment for technical roles.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Company pension plan
401(k) plan
Up to 6 weeks of paid vacation
Up to 11 paid holidays
Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents
Short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay
Long-term disability insurance
Financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses
Discretionary long-term incentives for some roles
Flexible working hours
Possibility of remote/mobile working
Annual performance-related salary increase
Training and development programs