Endur Solution Architect

Endur Solution Architect

Location: Houston, TX
Type: Contracted (11 months)
Client: PTS - SHELL
Level: Experienced
Citizenship Requirement: Must be a US Citizen or US permanent resident

Role Overview

As an Endur Solution Architect, you'll provide end-to-end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well-designed and aligned with Shell's standards and reference architecture. You must have a deep understanding of Endur infrastructure and grid design and hands-on ETRM architecture experience. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for Shell's Trading and Supply business.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
• Lead in your area of expertise and play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact that extends 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.
• Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with Shell's architectural standards.
• Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
• Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
• Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.

2. Reference Model Stewardship

• Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling.
• Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.

3. Technology Foresight

• Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future-ready solutions for Shell.

4. Standards Alignment

• Stay informed of developments in Shell's IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.

5. Community Engagement

• Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
• Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.

Qualifications

Industry Knowledge:

• Architect who has personally designed and implemented Endur platforms
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Trading IT
• Minimum of 10 years' experience with OpenLink Endur v14+
• Kafka integration with Endur v26+
• Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement

Technical Architecture & Design:

• 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
• Hands-on ETRM architecture (not just configuration or development)
• Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• Grid architecture—structure, performance, multi-region EOD design
• Context services and integration in/out Endur
• Translate business requirements into Endur technical implementation
• Scaling, sizing and performance tuning
• 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.

Collaboration & Communication:

• 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.

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

Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages:

• Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
• Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
• Expert in JVS and OpenComponents
• Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.

Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM):

• Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including All 'Managers', Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling.

Azure Platform & Cloud Native:

• Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy on-premise systems.
• Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).

Data Architecture, Data Management & Diverse Data Types:

• 3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
• 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:

• 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.
• Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
• CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
• Strong integration architecture around Endur systems.

Agile & Engineering Standards:

• 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.

Documentation & Coordination:

• Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High-Level Design documents.
• Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external to Shell.