Sgement Architect T&s Cross Commodity

**The Role**:
**The Segment Architect is accountable for the architecture of T&S Functions such as Finance, Tax, Contracts Management, Risk & Trading Compliance, supporting the Lead Segment Architect in this area.**

**The Functions segment in Trading & Supply supports the horizontal layer and cross-commodity functions. It provides critical services through interconnected Business-critical interfaces and systems. The Functions segment is an integral part of dynamic Shell Trading business. T&S is one of the largest energy trading operations in the world.**

**The Segment Architect will work within an extended natural team to ensure that IT solutions for this segment have a high-quality architectural design with full consideration around ease of integration, risk exposure, compliance, ability to operate, scalability and cost effectiveness. The resulting roadmaps and high-level designs will have a measurable impact on the effectiveness and profitability for Shell.**

**Where You Fit In**

**The individual in this position will support the Lead Segment Architect and Business Lead Architect in the execution of architecture consultancy and assurance activities for the Line of Business.**

**The Segment Architect is an integral member of the Business IT and the Shell Architecture IT teams, helping to shape the strategic direction of the portfolio for an architecture perspective.**
**Translated Company Description

**The Segment Architect is a leading member of the Business IT and the Shell Architecture IT teams, helping to shape the future of the company.**

**Your day to day role includes the following activities**:

- ** Driving the architecture and supporting the natural teams within the business**:

- ** Driving Solution or product selections against capabilities required within the business, including vendor selection and management.**:

- ** Responsibility for the architectural standards and governance of projects within the segment to ensure the security, safety and cost effectiveness of all solutions deployed for the business.**

**You will be responsible for assuring the quality of architecture deliverables from the natural teams, and should be familiar with the process and tools that drive these artefacts (TOGAF, BizzDesign)**

**You will guide and support project teams (including Solution architects) to ensure compliance of developments with the solution architecture.**

**You will provide technical support and expertise to the natural team to drive the segment roadmap and project support; from both your own knowledge and from other technical roles in Shell.**

**Other accountabilities include**:

- ** Develop and maintain segment architecture including target selections.**:

- ** Ensure architecture artifact quality and retention in appropriate tools, for example, BizzDesign.**:

- ** Facilitate Architecture Risk Assessments on projects, and conduct Assurance Reviews and Stage Gate signoff for medium and low risk projects, involving data, technical and integration architects as needed**:

- ** Participate in and contribute to the Line of Business segment architecture network.**:

- ** Maintain knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements, including data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR), and ensure that those are included in architecture strategy and design decisions.**:

- ** Proactively review segment portfolio with ITM and business to maintain the alignment on how personal data is managed and handled properly.**:

- ** Lead natural teams towards increasing value and decreasing risk of data.**

**What We Need from You?**

**Good understanding of Finance Operations and Trading Risk Management.**

**7-10 years’ experience in digital and IT with 5+ years of business-focused digital and some IT leadership experience. You have a proven track record of digital and IT architecture impact and success.**

**Stakeholder engagement is key to this role, in the broadest sense. Being sensitive to stakeholders, talking the right ‘language’ to specific target groups, and leading by example are crucial to the role. Being extremely curious about your own space, but also to the adjacent and outside world, and being able to translate that into actionable outcomes is another skill that need to be strongly present.**

**You will actively influence the definition of the strategy and the planning of investments.**

**Crucially you will**:

- ** Know the TOGAF standards and understand the Shell Architecture Framework and be able to explain the role of architecture in IT processes/organisation**:

- **Understand segment architecture and the link to portfolio management and platforms**:

- ** Know the Target Operating Environment (TOE)**:

- ** Know relevant IRM standards for Architecture and understand how to use the standards**:Disclaimer