ECI Group's PTS Network is seeking a skilled and seasoned Endur Solution Architect to work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities. The role is a Houston‑based eleven‑month contract. Note: You must be a US Citizen or US permanent resident to qualify for this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Reference Model Stewardship
- Technology Foresight
- Standards Alignment
- Community Engagement
- Architecture and Technical Leadership: Provide strong leadership skills, foster collaboration, drive consensus, and effectively communicate 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 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 that comply 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.
- Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or other standard tooling.
- Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
- Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions for Shell.
- Stay informed of developments in Shell’s IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
- Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
- Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
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, mult‑region EOD design.
- Context services and integration in or 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
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
- Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .NET, .NET Core, Python, etc.) with Cloud Native Platform Development on 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.