Delivery Manager Crude Digital

Shell


Job Location:

Houston, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 178000 - 266000
Posted on: 8 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Texas United States of America


Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)


Worker Type:

Regular


Posting Start Date:

July 13 2026


Business Unit:

Projects and Technology


Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals


Job Description:

Whats the role

As a Crude Digital Delivery Manager / Senior Principal Engineer youll be a key technical leader empowered to shape standards in engineering and architecture working in the Crude portfolio for Shells Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work across multiple product and project teams in the portfolio to create scalable secure and strategic systems that enable the transformation of the Crude Digital capabilities.

What youll be doing

  • Own technical conversations and delivery in partnership with the Crude business on Digital Ambition Platforms and Tools Agentic AI Innovation AI Governance People Enablement and AI Use Cases across Life of a Deal

  • Enablerapid deliveryof business-critical tools.

  • Supportexperimentation and innovationthrough the DIY environment.

  • Seamlessly transition applications toIT-managed productionwhen scale or criticality demands it

You should exhibit deep technology leadership with a good balance of hands-on experience in designing and engineering technical solutions problem solving mentality and logical thinking. This role will drive engineering leadership with end-to-end accountability for technical strategy and delivery of the products/projects within the Crude Digital portfolio. They will also have key influence if not direct ownership for architectural leadership. You will report into the Crude and Products Senior Delivery Manager.

Strong leadership skills including fostering collaboration driving consensus and effectively communicating complex technical concepts are essential. The ideal candidate will not only lead in their area of expertise but also play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itselfidentifying opportunities driving innovation and delivering impact that extends beyond the initial remit. As the organization grows this role is expected to evolve offering continuous opportunities for development influence and leadership.

What you bring

  • Industry Knowledge:

    • Strong domain expertise in crude trading including physical supply chains (cargo scheduling logistics quality differentials) and associated financial markets (futures and derivatives) used for hedging and price discovery.

    • Substantial experience in Commodity Trading & Price Risk Management or Capital Markets / Investment Banks to bring credible externalisation of mindset and approach ensuring cost: value competitiveness.

    • Understanding of financial regulations.

    • Knowledge of the Life of a Deal (LOAD).

    • Compliance & Regulation.

    • Credit and Risk.

    • Finance.

    • Operations.

    • Market Analysis.

    • Trading Data & Analytics processess

  • Experience & Leadership:

    • Extensive experience in software or architecture delivery with significant years leading software engineering teams.

    • 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.

  • Technical Architecture & Design:

    • Influence technical architecture own design and standards for software products in Crude Digital portfolio.

    • Confidently contribute to architecture decisions across portfolios managing divergent opinions.

    • Create pragmatic implementable technical designs balancing risk complexity cost and value.

  • Collaboration & Communication:

    • Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions.

    • Strong communication and collaboration skills with significant years of 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

    • Trading System & ETRM:

      • Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal.

      • Experience architecting and/or designing ETRM services and capabilities ideally within an Endur application landscape

    • Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages:

      • Expert in one or more of the programming languages (Java ) 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 Datastores etc) technologies

      • Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark Azure Data Factory a bonus

    • Azure Platform & Cloud Native:

      • Hands-on experience in developing applications into the Azure platform including migrations/re-platforming of legacy systems.

      • Engineering experience in designing and building containers Microservices Cloud Native applications and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).

    • Data Management & Diverse Data Types:

      • 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 Data Warehouse.

      • Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka API Management Logic Apps.

    • CI/CD & DevOps: significant years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub VSTS/Azure DevOps Terraform Ansible.

  • Agile & Engineering Standards:

    • Practical agile experience in enterprise environments.

    • Lead the engineering community to follow Shell Engineering Management standards ensuring consistency and reuse.

    • Enable Secure and Reliable solutions

    • 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 IDSO ET SOM Business stakeholders) internal and external to Shell.

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $178000 - $266000 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 Shells US benefit programs can be found at 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 the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty integrity and respect for one able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

  • Progress as a person as we work on the 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 uniqueexpertise.

  • 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 annualperformance relatedsalary increase our pay and benefits packagesare considered to beamong the best in the world.

  • Take advantage of paid parental leaveincluding fornon-birthingparents.

  • Join anorganisationworking 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 andinternationalteams.

  • Gain access to a wide range of training and developmentprogrammes.

Wed like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the worlds most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how were working towards that goal click here.

Shell in TheUnitedStates

Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years leading the sector in energypetrochemicalsand refined products. Today we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy.

Weoperatein all 50 states from our Deepwater platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US.

We reach our customers through our 13000 branded retail stations and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. Pennzoil made from natural gas.

We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come.

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