Principal Architect T&S Data & Analytics

Key Accountabilities:

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.

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.

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.

Shell is a vital contributor to the UK, supporting energy security, jobs and economic value. We provide energy to fuel homes, hospitals, schools, vehicles, machinery and factories. Our history here dates back over 125 years. A UK-headquartered global energy leader, and leading FTSE multinational, we are active across the country’s energy system.

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