Senior Solution Architect - Endur

Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements:

• We bring a long-established background in Trading IT and extensive hands-on expertise with OpenLink Endur.
• We understand the end-to-end Trading business from deal inception through to settlement.
• We have extensive experience in software and architecture delivery, and we take ownership of technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• We can confidently lead architectural decisions across portfolios, manage divergent opinions, and create pragmatic technical designs that balance risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• We have TOGAF or a similar framework experience, along with enterprise architecture tooling experience.
• We have strong communication and collaboration skills, with significant experience in trading environments.
• We can diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions, while managing dependencies, obstacles, trade-offs, and technical debt.
• We are expert in one or more programming languages such as Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, or Python, and have cloud native platform development experience on Azure or AWS.
• We are expert in one or more front-end development technologies, specifically React and micro frontends.
• We are expert in one or more data development technologies, including SQL databases, NoSQL, and cloud datastores.
• We are expert in JVS and OpenComponents.
• We have exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, and multifactor authentication.
• We have hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including All Managers, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, and Deal Modelling.
• We have hands-on experience architecting applications on Azure, including migrations and re-platforming of legacy on-premises systems.
• We have experience designing and building containers, microservices, cloud native applications, and federated data platforms.
• We have solid experience in data architecture, logical data modelling, and modern data platforms, including medallion-style architecture.
• We have strong knowledge of data management, including engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, and security.
• We have experience with diverse data types such as big data, high-velocity streaming, IoT, low-latency event triggers, and longitudinal time series.
• We have proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• We have significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, and distributed or event-driven architecture such as Event Hub, Event Bus, and Kafka.
• We have intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, Cosmos DB, and Azure SQL.
• We have integration experience with Confluent or Kafka, API Management, and Logic Apps.
• We have substantial experience in CI/CD delivery using Git, GitHub, VSTS or Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Ansible.
• We have practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments.
• We can lead the engineering community to follow Shell Engineer Management standards and support core engineering GPA objectives.
• We can address business process, data, application, technical, and information security aspects of IT solutions, documenting them in high-level design documents.
• We can coordinate and develop information with third parties, data architects, IRM, support operations teams, and business stakeholders, both inside and outside the company.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strong architectural leadership, foster collaboration, drive consensus, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
• Play a key role in shaping and transforming the role by identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
• 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 line with our 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 the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or other standard tooling.
• Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
• Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insight to design future-ready solutions.
• Stay informed of developments in our IT standards and services and incorporate them into solution designs.
• Champion architectural excellence within the organisation.
• Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Active Directory
• Ansible
• Architect
• Azure
• Big Data
• Backbone
• BiZZdesign
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Cosmos DB
• DevOps
• Git
• GitHub
• IoT
• Support
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Mobile
• NoSQL
• Python
• React
• SAP
• SQL
• Salesforce
• Security
• TOGAF
• Terraform
• Web
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• NodeJS
• Excel
• Frontend

More:

We are Shell, advancing our Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net-zero emissions. This role sits within our Trading & Supply global transformation, supporting the Global Products organisation as we establish Endur as the global backbone ETRM platform on Azure. Based in London at Shell Centre, this full-time position offers the chance to help shape a scalable, secure, cloud-native architecture with flexibility, resilience, and data centricity at its core. We offer a competitive salary and annual performance-related increase, flexible working hours, the possibility of remote or mobile working, paid parental leave including for non-birthing parents, wide-ranging training and development opportunities, and access to diverse international career paths. We value honesty, integrity, and respect, and we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and psychologically safe workplace where people of all backgrounds can thrive.

last updated 36 week of 2026