Freight Lead Software Engineer

Description

• Direct workload of engineers partitioning tasks and assigning accountability
• You will be responsible for driving the technical design and standards and leading the development team in implementing both Veson IMOS and the bespoke in-house solution
• Listen to and interpret the needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, maintainability)
• You will play a central role in the successful delivery of the new freight management platform
• Responsible for architectural decisions, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that align with Shell’s enterprise standards and future vision
• Lead the engineering community to follow Software Engineering Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms
• Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or technical debt
• Define and document system architecture, integration patterns, and technology choices
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value
• Own and drive technical design, and standards for software products in Voyage Management
• Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Shell Trading picture
• Confidently lead engineering decisions across project team, managing divergent opinions
• Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions
• Build and maintain motivated teams, drive development, and collaboration
• Lead architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams

Requirements

• Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal
• Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security
• Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
• Extensive years of experience in software delivery with significant years leading software engineering teams
• Proven track record delivering and leading on large scale programs
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with diverse data types: big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series
• Engineering experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)
• Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
• Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory a bonus
• Experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible
• Voyage Management, the ideal candidate has experience with Veson IMOS
• Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• 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).

Benefits

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• 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.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance