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This is an Integrated Gas asset-facing Solution Architect role with strong hands-on Data Architecture experience. It is not a Data Engineer, pure Data Architect, AI Architect or process-engineering role.

The successful candidate must combine:
•    End-to-end solution architecture ownership and independent delivery.
•    Practical understanding of the Integrated Gas business and how relevant assets operate.
•    Ability to develop solution logical data architecture and guide physical data design.
•    Experience translating operational needs and constraints into implementable technology solutions.
•    Hands-on Bizzdesign proficiency to independently develop and maintain repository-based architecture models.

Generic cloud or data-platform experience alone is insufficient. Supplier submissions must demonstrate relevant gas production, gas processing, LNG or GTL experience, including examples of how operational understanding influenced architecture decisions. Submissions must also include evidence of practical Bizzdesign modelling capability; certification alone does not demonstrate tool proficiency.

Role Purpose
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to deliver end-to-end architecture for projects supporting Shell Integrated Gas assets and business capabilities, including data, analytics and AI-enabled solutions.
The architect will translate asset business goals, operating processes and user needs into fit-for-purpose solution designs. Solutions should support relevant outcomes such as safe and reliable operations, production performance, equipment reliability, energy efficiency, cost effectiveness and carbon performance.
The role requires working knowledge of how IG assets operate, how operational decisions are made, and how operational, engineering and enterprise information is used. The architect must apply this understanding when defining application, integration, data, technology, security and non-functional requirements.
This is primarily an individual contributor role. The architect will independently own assigned solution architecture deliverables and assurance through implementation, working to the direction and priorities set by the Lead Architect. The role does not replace asset engineering, operations or technical-authority accountability.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables
1. Understand the IG business and asset context
•    Develop a clear understanding of the assigned asset, business capability, operating processes, users and intended business outcomes before proposing technology solutions.
•    Work with operations, process engineering, production optimisation, maintenance, reliability, integrity, business IT and OT stakeholders, as relevant to the assignment.
•    Map business processes, operational decisions, information flows and dependencies across the solution scope.
•    Translate business needs into architecture requirements and acceptance criteria, maintaining traceability between the intended outcome and the proposed design.
•    Validate operational assumptions and requirements with the relevant asset subject-matter experts.

2. Own end-to-end solution architecture
•    Develop and maintain integrated solution architectures across business processes, applications, data, integrations, technology and security.
•    Evaluate solution options and trade-offs, considering business value, affordability, delivery feasibility, operational adoption, supportability and risk.
•    Identify dependencies on existing asset systems, enterprise platforms, infrastructure and delivery initiatives.
•    Apply relevant Shell standards, reference architectures and strategic technology roadmaps, identifying and managing required exceptions.
•    Provide architecture direction and assurance throughout design and implementation.

3. Design for asset-operating requirements
•    Translate operating constraints into explicit non-functional requirements, including availability, resilience, performance, latency, connectivity and recoverability.
•    Address IT/OT integration boundaries and security requirements with the relevant authorities.
•    Consider operational continuity, deployment and change windows, support arrangements and transition into service.
•    Distinguish operational monitoring and decision-support use cases from control-system functions, validating boundaries with OT and asset stakeholders.
•    Ensure proposed solutions fit operational workflows and can be adopted and supported by the asset.

4. Deliver business-grounded data architecture
•    Use existing business conceptual data models to develop project-specific Solution Logical Data Models, defining entities, attributes, relationships and business definitions.
•    Develop or assure Physical Data Models where required, working with Data Engineers and delivery teams.
•    Represent relevant asset information consistently, including equipment and functional-location hierarchies, operational tags, measurements, units, timestamps and maintenance or production records.
•    Define data ownership, quality, lineage, contextualisation and lifecycle requirements with business and data stakeholders.
•    Design appropriate integration patterns across operational/OT, historian/time-series, engineering, maintenance and enterprise systems.
•    Define patterns for exposing and consuming data through APIs, events, pipelines, data products and enterprise data-platform capabilities.

5. Enable analytics and AI where justified
•    Define how analytics, AI, GenAI or agent-based capabilities integrate into the overall solution where supported by a clear business need.
•    Assess data readiness, integration requirements, security, human oversight and operational support implications.
•    Provide architecture direction for strategic platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Databricks where appropriate to the solution.
•    Avoid technology-led designs that lack a validated business use case or operational adoption path.

6. Maintain architecture models in Bizzdesign
•    Develop and maintain assigned architecture models and views in Bizzdesign, following applicable repository structures, modelling conventions and governance requirements.
•    Keep models aligned with approved designs and implementation changes, and ensure architecture information is sufficiently complete, consistent and current to support assurance and handover.
Expected Architecture Deliverables
Produce and maintain proportionate, decision-ready artefacts, including:
•    Business context, operating-process and solution-scope views.
•    Solution architecture overview and application/component interaction views.
•    Solution Logical Data Models and, where required, Physical Data Models.
•    Data-flow, interface, API and integration views.
•    Non-functional, security and operational-support requirements.
•    Architecture decisions, options, risks, assumptions and dependencies.
•    Implementation assurance findings and resolution of architecture deviations.
•    Maintained Bizzdesign models and stakeholder views, with traceable relationships across the relevant architecture domains.

Required Experience & Skills

IG Business and Asset Knowledge
•    Demonstrable experience delivering solution architecture for gas production, gas processing, LNG and/or GTL operations, relevant to the assigned scope.
•    Working understanding of the relevant IG value chain and the relationships between production, processing or conversion, storage and export, as applicable.
•    Practical knowledge of asset-operating processes such as production monitoring and optimisation, equipment reliability, maintenance, integrity, energy management or operational performance reporting.
•    Ability to explain how asset-operating requirements and constraints influence architecture decisions.
•    Experience engaging directly with operational and engineering stakeholders to validate requirements, data meaning and solution usability.

Solution and Data Architecture
•    Proven experience independently owning end-to-end solution architecture through delivery.
•    Strong practical Data Architecture and Data Modelling capability, including Solution Logical Data Models and Physical Data Models.
•    Experience integrating operational, engineering and enterprise data, including historian/time-series data.
•    Strong understanding of application and data integration patterns, APIs, events, batch and streaming approaches.
•    Experience with modern cloud and data platforms, including Azure and/or Databricks.
•    Experience defining non-functional requirements, evaluating solution options, documenting decisions and providing architecture assurance.
•    Ability to balance business value, strategic alignment, operational resilience, delivery feasibility, technical quality and risk.

Architecture Modelling and Bizzdesign Proficiency
•    Demonstrable hands-on proficiency in Bizzdesign, using the product and modules deployed within Shell, to independently create, maintain and communicate solution architecture models.
•    Ability to model relationships across business capabilities and processes, applications, data, integrations and technology, using ArchiMate and agreed modelling conventions.
•    Experience working within a shared architecture repository, reusing existing model elements, maintaining consistent relationships and attributes, and producing stakeholder-appropriate views.
•    Ability to connect IG business outcomes and asset-operating requirements to solution designs, dependencies and architecture decisions through traceable models.

Delivery and Communication
•    Ability to work independently within agreed scope, priorities and governance.
•    Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across business, operational and technical audiences.
•    Ability to produce clear, actionable architecture artefacts and resolve design issues collaboratively.
•    Ability to recognise where specialist input or approval is required rather than making unsupported operational assumptions.

Preferred Experience & Skills
•    Previous experience within Shell Integrated Gas or comparable operator environments.
•    Experience across more than one relevant asset type, such as LNG, GTL or gas processing.
•    Experience supporting operational analytics, asset-performance, reliability, energy-optimisation or emissions-related use cases.
•    Familiarity with asset information management, engineering information and maintenance-management systems.
•    Experience delivering solutions across multiple assets while balancing reuse with asset-specific requirements.
•    Experience integrating analytics or AI capabilities into operational decision-support workflows.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications
•    ArchiMate certification, preferably Practitioner level.
•    Relevant Bizzdesign product training, with evidence of practical application.
•    TOGAF certification or equivalent demonstrable knowledge of structured enterprise architecture methods.

Indicators of Successful Delivery
•    Architecture decisions are traceable to validated business outcomes and operational requirements.
•    Designs and data models are validated with relevant business, asset and technical stakeholders.
•    Operational constraints, data dependencies and architecture risks are identified early and managed through delivery.
•    Delivery teams receive clear, implementable architecture and timely design decisions.
•    Delivered solutions conform to the agreed architecture, with deviations explicitly assessed and resolved.
•    Operational support, ownership and adoption requirements are addressed before handover.
•    Bizzdesign models remain consistent, reusable and aligned with the delivered solution, enabling impact analysis and effective handover.