Lead Data Product Manager

Location: Greater London

## Lead Data Product Manager Apply:
London York Road:
Full time:
Posted 22 Days Ago:
R198483, United Kingdom
** Job Family Group:
** Trading Jobs
** Worker Type:
** Regular
* * Posting

Start Date:

** September 1, 2026
** Business Unit:
** Trading and Supply
** Experience Level:
** Experienced Professionals
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* Job Description:

**** What’s the role
** As a Lead Data Product Manager, within the Shell Energy Chief Data Office (CDO) organisation, you will own the business-led data product strategy, acquisition design and delivery for Shell Energy Trading & Supply. The role is accountable for translating trading, risk, finance and operations needs into high-value data products, define onboarding priorities, data contracts, target-state designs and adoption outcomes. Working in partnership with Shell’s Information & Digital Technology (IDT) group, you will provide deep commodities data context, business design authority and knowledge to ensure engineered solutions are fit for trading use and deliver measurable business value.
** What you’ll be doing
*** Own business-led data product strategy, acquisition design and ingestion priorities
** Define the business target state and product roadmap for source onboarding, data acquisition priorities, data contracts, schemas, controls and service expectations across trading, risk, finance and operations.
* Provide product and design authority on what the data product needs to do for the business, including usability, quality, timeliness, lineage, adoption, control requirements and measurable value delivery.
* Partner with IDT to ensure technical designs on Azure data platforms are fit for purpose, while maintaining clear separation between business design ownership and IDT-led engineering build, infrastructure, cyber and operational run.
* Industrialise onboarding of sources such as ETRM/Endur, Trayport, market data vendors, SAP and operational data feeds through clear product requirements, SLAs, observability needs, runbook expectations and adoption measures.
* Translate business context into product outcomes and engineered delivery
** Bring deep commodities data knowledge across trading life cycles, market data, reference data, ETRM workflows and risk/finance dependencies to shape practical, commercially relevant solutions.
* Translate trading desk, risk, operations and finance needs into a prioritised product backlog, clear epics/stories, acceptance criteria and value measures that IDT and engineering teams can deliver against.
* Contribute to and challenge designs constructively, shaping best practice and partnering with IDT accountabilities for engineering delivery, platform operations or solution architecture ownership.
* Partner with Product Owners, Business Interface, Solution/Data Architects and IDT delivery leads to align business requirements, data models, master data standards, prioritisation, adoption and delivery plans.
* Go‐to Data Manager responsibilities for the domain
** Steward business data definitions, ownership, lineage, metadata, quality KPIs, access requirements and product adoption metrics; chair data change forums and ensure decisions are grounded in commodities trading context.
* Apply Shell’s technical information & data lifecycle: register, receive, set up/load, update/maintain, publish/archive or dispose; uphold audit trail and records management.
* Maintain clear decision rights between business SME data ownership and IDT technical delivery, ensuring requirements, controls and acceptance criteria are agreed before build and evidenced at handover.
* Shape product capacity plans, skills roadmap and vendor contributions; foster a culture of safety, compliance, customer focus and continuous improvement.
* Operate reliably & safely
** Oversee resilience,…