Freight Lead Software Engineer

Freight Lead Software Engineer

Shell

What’s The Role

Shell’s business thrives on innovative technology and skilled professionals. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team as a Tech Lead. The project aims to develop an integrated freight management platform for Trading & Supply. The new platform will replace RADAR with Veson IMOS, a leading industry solution, and will include a custom in‑house system for demurrage and PDE calculations, integrated with our ETRMs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Responsible for architectural decisions, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that align with Shell’s enterprise standards and future vision.
• Play a central role in the successful delivery of the new freight management platform.
• Drive the technical design and standards and lead the development team in implementing both Veson IMOS and the bespoke in‑house solution.

What You Bring

Industry Knowledge

• Experience with Veson IMOS.
• Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal.

Experience & Leadership

• Extensive years of experience in software delivery with significant years leading software engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering and leading on large‑scale programs.
• Build and maintain motivated teams, drive development, and collaboration.
• Direct workload of engineers, partitioning tasks and assigning accountability.

Technical Design

• Own and drive technical design, and standards for software products in Voyage Management.
• Define and document system architecture, integration patterns, and technology choices.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms.
• Confidently lead engineering decisions across project team, managing divergent opinions.
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• Ensure solutions meet non‑functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, maintainability).
• Lead architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day‑to‑day technical decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Listen to and interpret the needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
• Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.

Problem Solving & Innovation

• Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Shell Trading picture.
• Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade‑offs or technical debt.

Technical Skills and Mastery

• Expert in full‑stack development with expertise in one or more of the programming languages: React.js, Node.js, and Python with Cloud Native Platform Development (AWS/Azure etc).
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, NoSQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies.
• Hands‑on experience with Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory a bonus.

Azure Platform & Cloud Native

• Engineering experience in designing and building containers, microservices, cloud native applications, and federated data platforms (Data Mesh).

Data Management & Diverse Data Types

• 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.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.

Azure Services & Integration

• 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.
• CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.

Agile & Engineering Standards

• Practical agile experience in both start‑up and enterprise environments.
• Lead the engineering community to follow Software Engineering Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
• Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.

What We Offer

• 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 value‑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 – 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. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: As part of your application, please submit a motivation letter along with your resume. The motivation letter should outline your reasons for applying to this position and how your skills and experiences align with the job requirements.

Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we’re working towards that goal.

Shell in The United Kingdom

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell‑branded service stations.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net‑zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.