Senior Principal Engineer

Industry Knowledge:

• Understanding of all major global futures exchanges.
• Knowledge of the full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle.
• Substantial years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Price Risk Management or Capital Markets / Investment Banks.
• Familiarity with market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
• Understanding of financial regulations such as MiFID II, EMIR, and FCA guidelines.
• Knowledge of the Life of a Deal (LOAD).
• Compliance & Regulation.
• Credit and Risk.
• Finance.
• Operations.
• Front Office Market Analysis (forecasting, modelling).
• Trading Data & Analytics processes.

Experience & Leadership:

• 13+ years of experience in software or architecture delivery with 10+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Extensive years of experience in architectural roles, with 5 years leading portfolios.
• Build and maintain motivated teams, ensuring recruitment, development, and collaboration.
• Direct workload of engineers and architects, partitioning tasks, and assigning accountability.
• Recruit talent and support high-performing teams in both architecture and engineering.
• Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years' experience in 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.
• Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal.
• Experience architecting and designing ETRM services and capabilities, ideally within an Endur application landscape.
• Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python, C++ etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (AWS/ Azure etc).
• Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React).
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory a bonus.
• Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication, Collibra, Purview.
• Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy systems.
• Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
• 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.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.

Azure Services & Integration:

• CI/CD & DevOps: Proven years of experience in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
• 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, CosmosDB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
• 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 values-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.
• 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.

You can be a part of the future of energy. Together at Shell, we are transitioning to become a net-zero emissions business while providing the energy that people around the world need today. Working with experienced colleagues, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills, in an environment where we value honesty, integrity and respect for one another. At Shell, you progress as we tackle the energy challenge together.