Senior Tech Lead - Software Engineering

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 18, 2022

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

An exciting opportunity to work at the Information and Digital Engineering (IDE) organisation in Shell IT. We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead for Shell’s Energy Trading Platforms with strong technical and interpersonal skills to join our team.

Where you fit in

IDE organization supports all aspects of our businesses and we have some of the world’s most complex problems to solve. You will not only get an opportunity to work with the latest technology, but with the scale of Shell, you will also get the opportunity to shape future digital technology working with the biggest players in the technology industry.

Shell’s global Trading and Supply business (STASCO) is one of the largest energy trading operations in the world with key hubs in Singapore, Dubai, Houston, London, and Rotterdam, trading in crude oil, natural gas, LNG, electrical power, refined products, chemical feedstocks and environmental products.

To enable value to the Business through IT, STASCO continues to expand investment in data and analytics. A key enabler for on business outcomes, Shell Energy is developing a global-scale Data platform, based on Microsoft Azure and open source components, to power our 2025 growth ambitions, enabling business agility.

What’s the role?

As the Senior Technical Lead, you will provide technical leadership and architectural design. Your further responsibilities includes:


Accountable for the technical design and standards for data products in Shell Energy, partnering with the Product Manager to lead implementation. You’ll champion building and improving our engineering culture which may include hands-on support for your team.
Provide technical leadership for 6-9 other Products, supporting the Technical Leads in those teams (each of which has 6-15 people). In practice, this means you’re accountable for ensuring for defining best practice and ensuring it is properly implemented across these teams.
Work closely with a wide range of business and IT stakeholders to ensure the correct day-to-day and strategic technical decisions are made, implemented, and documented.
Build and maintain motivated teams, ensuring that we recruit the right staff, and develop our staff to the best of their abilities.
Protect the team and make sure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important.
Proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and get the best value against constraints, including ensuring that trade-offs or technical debt are properly articulated and managed.


What we need from you?


Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
At least a bachelor’s degree, preferably related to IT or Computer Science,
Minimum of 15 years in IT with 10 years of building and leading software engineering teams in growing organisations.
Excellent C#/.NET and Python skills.
Significant experience working on projects with a diverse range of data types – ‘big data’, high velocity streaming data including IOT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series data, etc.
Strong understanding of data management practices – data engineering and pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security etc.
hands on experience with data engineering tooling such as databricks/Spark, ADF, Apache Airflow.
Experience with SQL, document and NoSQL databases.
Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, and distributed/ event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, kafka etc.), ELK, etc.
5 years experience with CI/CD delivery using GIT, VSTS/ADO, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
A stand out candidate would have practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments.


Although not required, A standout candidate would have experience and an understanding of data used in commodity trading:


Strong knowledge of trading and market drivers for gas, power, and environmental products, including the importance of fundamentals (supply / demand / capacity / inventory / prices / trades / etc.) in market price movements and potential sources of this data.
Strong knowledge of fundamental modelling and curve trading, including the use of statistical analysis in predictive models for supply/demand and price forecasting.
Industrial customer portfolios – forecast generation and analysis, customer constraints, tranche pricing, indexation monitor.
Risk metrics (for example - exposure, PnL, M2M, VaR, Score cards, stress testing, M2M/PnL explained, incremental VaR) – how they are calculated and how they are used by trading businesses.


COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 90,000 employees in more than 70 countries and territories. In the US, we have operated for over a century and are a major oil and gas producer onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico, a recognized innovator in exploration and production technology, and a leading manufacturer and marketer of fuels, natural gas and petrochemicals. We deliver energy responsibly; operate safely with respect to our neighbours and work to minimize our environmental impact. We are in search of remarkable people who will thrive in a diverse and inclusive work environment to deliver exciting projects locally and globally. People who are passionate about exploring new frontiers. Innovators and pioneers. People with the drive to help shape our future. Because remarkable people achieve remarkable things.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…


We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply and we’ll take it from there.
We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.


A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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