Freight Lead Software Engineer

Shell’s business thrives on innovative technology and skilled professionals. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team as a Tech Lead project aims to develop an integrated freight management platform for Trading & Supply. The new platform will replace RADAR with Veson IMOS, a leading industry solution, and will include a custom in-house system for demurrage and PDE calculations, integrated with our ETRMs.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for architectural decisions, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that align with Shell’s enterprise standards and future vision
• You will play a central role in the successful delivery of the new freight management platform
• 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

• Industry Knowledge:
  • Voyage Management, the ideal candidate has experience with Veson IMOS
  • Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal
• Experience & Leadership:
  • Extensive years of experience in software delivery with significant years leading software engineering teams
  • Proven track record delivering and leading on large scale programs
  • Build and maintain motivated teams, drive development, and collaboration
  • Direct workload of engineers partitioning tasks and assigning accountability
• Technical Design:
  • Own and drive technical design, and standards for software products in Voyage Management
  • Define and document system architecture, integration patterns, and technology choices
  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms
  • Confidently lead engineering decisions across project team, managing divergent opinions
  • Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value
  • Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, maintainability)
  • Lead architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams
• Collaboration & Communication:
  • Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Listen to and interpret the 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 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).
    • 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
  • Azure Platform & Cloud Native:
    • Engineering experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)
  • Data Management & Diverse Data Types:
    • 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
    • Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Azure Services & Integration:
    • 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 Data Warehouse
    • CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible
  • Agile & Engineering Standards:
    • Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments
    • Lead the engineering community to follow Software Engineering Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse
    • Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency