Senior Principal Engineer

- Industry Knowledge:  
* Understanding of all major global futures exchanges.  
* Knowledge of the full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle.  
* Substantial years’ experience in Commodity Trading & Price Risk Management or Capital Markets / Investment Banks to bring credible externalisation of mindset and approach, ensuring cost: value competitiveness.  
* Familiarity with market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.  
* Understanding of financial regulations such as MiFID II, EMIR, and FCA guidelines.  
* Knowledge of the Life of a Deal (LOAD).  
* Compliance & Regulation.  
* Credit and Risk.  
* Finance.  
* Operations.  
* Front Office Market Analysis (forecasting, modelling).  
* Trading Data & Analytics processes.

- Experience & Leadership:  
* 13+  years of experience in software or architecture delivery with 10+ years leading software engineering teams.  
* Extensive years of experience in architectural roles, with 5 years leading portfolios.  
* Build and maintain motivated teams, ensuring recruitment, development, and collaboration.  
* Direct workload of engineers and architects, partitioning tasks, and assigning accountability.  
* Recruit talent and support high-performing teams in both architecture and engineering.
* Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
* 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.
* 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.
* Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal.
* Experience architecting and designing ETRM services and capabilities, ideally within an Endur application landscape.
* Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python, C++ etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (AWS/ Azure etc)
* Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React)
* Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Data stores etc) technologies
* Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory a bonus
* Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication, Collibra, Purview.
* Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy systems.
* Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
* 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 No

SQL databases.
* Azure Services & Integration:
* CI/CD & Dev Ops:
Proven years of experience in CI/CD delivery using Git/Git Hub, VSTS/Azure Dev Ops, Terraform, Ansible.
* 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, Cosmos

DB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
* Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
* 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…