Principal Architect T&S Data & Analytics

Shell; Greater London; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote work

Salary progression

Parental leave

Diversity & inclusion

Career development

Training programs

Job summary

Shell is seeking a Principal Architect for Trading & Supply Data & Analytics to define and govern the architecture enabling a data-powered future. You will lead the design of an integrated data ecosystem, ensuring secure, reusable and scalable analytics capabilities across the enterprise.

You’ll provide architecture leadership, translate strategy into target architectures, and drive adoption of standards while balancing governance, innovation and value realization.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in IT, CS, Engineering or related discipline.
• Extensive IT experience with senior architecture leadership roles.
• Experience across large-scale, multi-domain environments.
• Knowledge of trading business domain; commodity trading preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership aligning business strategy, EA and technology investments.
• Define enterprise architecture direction and outcomes across domains and portfolios.
• Translate strategy into target architecture, roadmaps and platform direction.
• Ensure coherence across domains and resolve conflicts between domain strategies.
• Lead architecture teams, govern standards, patterns and reusable services.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Architecture leadership

Multi-domain experience

Trading domain knowledge

Strategic planning

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in IT/CS/Engineering

Job description

Principal Architect for Trading & Supply Data & Analytics

The Principal Architect for Trading & Supply Data & Analytics is accountable for defining and governing the architecture that enables T&S' data-powered future. The role leads the design and evolution of an integrated data ecosystem that connects data, digital services, and enterprise intelligence at scale, ensuring that data and analytics capabilities are secure, reusable, interoperable, and aligned with business outcomes. The role collaborates on architectural guidance to organise and structure the delivery of AI use cases leveraging AI Platform foundational services. A key accountability is the architecture, design, and implementation of the T&S Data Platform landscape, providing the foundational capabilities required for trusted and AI-ready data consumption. This includes ownership of the architectural direction, standards, integration patterns, and platforms. The role ensures these services are established as reusable T&S capabilities. The Principal Architect ensures solutions are architected once and leveraged many times, balancing innovation with governance, scalability, maintainability, and long-term value creation. Working across the many parts of the T&S business, data, digital, and technology teams, the role drives the adoption of common platforms, architectural patterns, and delivery approaches that accelerate business value realisation while reducing duplication and technical debt. The Principal Architect is accountable for architecture direction, decision coherence and architecture outcomes across a connected set of domains, portfolios or enterprise transformation landscapes. The role translates business and enterprise strategy into target architectures, investment roadmaps, standards and guardrails, ensuring architecture decisions create enterprise value, reduce complexity and enable safe, scalable digital, data and analytics transformation.

What you’ll be doing

Provides architecture leadership that aligns business strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology investments. Accountable for enterprise architecture direction and outcomes across a connected set of domains, portfolios or enterprise transformation landscapes, ensuring architecture decisions deliver enterprise value, coherence, resilience, security, scalability and simplification. Translates business and enterprise strategy into target architecture, strategic roadmaps, platform direction, standards, principles and guardrails across business process, application, data, integration, technology, cloud and security dimensions. Ensures cross-domain architecture coherence, resolving conflicts between T&S LoB domain strategies, product roadmaps, delivery priorities and enterprise target states. Acts as enterprise decision authority for material architecture choices spanning domains, portfolios or major transformation landscapes, including approval of significant trade-offs, exceptions, deviations and step-outs from enterprise guardrails. Represents architecture in executive governance forums, providing trusted advice to CIOs, business leaders, enterprise architects and senior technology stakeholders. Shapes enterprise portfolio and technology investment decisions, ensuring funding, sequencing and prioritisation align to target architecture, business capabilities, enterprise value, risk reduction and simplification outcomes. Drives adoption of enterprise standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures and enterprise technology services across domains, reducing duplication, complexity, risk and technical debt. Leads and develops a multi-layer architecture organisation, line-managing Lead Architects and ensuring effective leadership of their architecture teams, architecture capacity, performance, succession and capability development. Sets strategic technology direction for the supported enterprise landscape, including platform strategy, lifecycle choices, simplification themes, reuse priorities and emerging technology implications. Leads and champions the data-first architecture transformation across the enterprise scope, scaling AI-enabled and AI-ready architecture practices, machine-readable artefacts, structured decision records, automated validation, AI-assisted assurance and responsible AI guardrails. Ensures responsible AI is embedded in enterprise architecture decisions, including data quality, transparency, security, privacy, explainability, human oversight, auditability, operational support and regulatory considerations. Influences enterprise technology strategy and transformation outcomes, using market, technology, regulatory and business insight to shape opportunities, risks, investment choices and enterprise roadmaps.

What you bring

Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. Extensive IT experience, including senior architecture leadership roles. Experience across large-scale, complex, multi-domain technology environments. Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide architecture transformation and strategic technology initiatives. Demonstrated knowledge of the trading business domain, commodity trading knowledge is preferred.

What we offer

• 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 – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

If you require any accommodations or accessibility adjustments (e.g. assistive technology, communication support, any other) during the application or interview process, please let us know directly via [e-mail].

We strive to ensure that our process and workplaceisaccessible to everyone and are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments to support your needs.

Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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