Senior Solution Architect Jobs in Houston, TX

Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 30, 2026

Business Unit:

Information & Digital Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

Shell supports a balanced energy transition, one that maintains secure and affordable energy supplies, as the world moves to net-zero. Delivering on this ambition requires transformative shifts in IT, bringing together strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. As part of this journey, we are seeking a skilled and seasoned Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.

What’s the role

As a Solution Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end-to-end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well-designed and aligned with Shell’s standards and reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for Shell’s Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.

What you’ll be doing

• Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
• Not only lead in your area of expertise but also play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself— identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact that extends beyond the initial remit. As the organization grows, your role is expected to evolve, offering continuous opportunities for development, influence, and leadership.

• • Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
  • Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
  • Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with Shell’s architectural standards.
  • Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
  • Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
  • Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
• Reference Model Stewardship
  • Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign or any other standard tooling.
  • Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
• Technology Foresight
  • Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future-ready solutions for Shell.
• Standards Alignment
  • Stay informed of developments in Shell’s IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
• Community Engagement
  • Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
  Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
  

What you bring

· Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

· Bachelor’s degree required

· Industry Knowledge:

• • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Trading IT
  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience with OpenLink Endur v14+
  • Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement

• Technical Architecture & Design:

• • 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
  • 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.
  

• Collaboration & Communication :
  

• • 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.
  

• 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 one or more of the programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
    • Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
    • Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
    • Expert in JVS and OpenComponents
    • Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.
  • Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM):
    • Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including All ‘Managers’, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling.
  • Azure Platform & Cloud Native:
    • Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy on-premise systems.
    • Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
  • Data Architecture, Data Management & Diverse Data Types:
    • 3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models
    • and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
  • • 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 NoSQL databases.
  • Azure Services & Integration:
    • 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, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
    • Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
  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 Shell Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
  • Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives.
  Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.
  

• Documentation & Coordination :
  • Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High-Level Design documents.
  Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders), internal and external to Shell.
  

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $149,000 - $223,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell’s US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html .

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.

You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

· Progress as a person as we work on energy security and a balanced energy transition together

· Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead

· Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices

· Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise

· Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself

· Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working

· Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.

· Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents

· Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply

· Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams

· Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. .

Shell in The United States

With more than 11,000 employees, Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years and is delivering secure energy supplies across America.

From producing a reliable supply of oil and gas in the US Gulf of America to biofuels, our retail sites and EV charging network, to marketing and trading electricity generated by gas plants, solar and wind power, we are one of the few countries where every Shell business is represented.

We are working with our customers to deliver the energy the world needs today and building the energy systems of tomorrow, all while creating value for society and shareholders.

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