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Senior Technical Lead–Quant Engineering

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Reference ID R177772 Updated 06/02/2025
Information Technology (IT)
United Kingdom
London
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What’s the role

As the Senior Software Engineer, you will join our team within Shell Energy Trading which is at the forefront of our Powering Progress Strategy. The Shell Energy is a fast-moving environment where gas, power, environmental products, renewables and energy solutions all come together. We are home to Shell’s global LNG Marketing and Trading business and to Shell’s Gas and Power trading businesses in Asia, Australia, Americas and Europe & Africa.

What you’ll be doing

This hands-on technical role aims to deepen Shell’s development capability in all parts of the stack, be it DevOps, Databases, Backend logic or front end. You will be responsible to support & help drive the vision for software engineering technologies and processes across product teams and leading high-performance engineering teams.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Help build, nurture and grow high performance teams using Agile Engineering principles

  • Act as a technical leader sharing own experiences, insights and energy, adopting a hands-on approach, and thrives in uncertainty when needed

  • Relationship Management: Role-models, champions, and advocates for collaborative and open ways of working and behaviours built on trust and driven by empathy

  • Works independently under minimal managerial supervision. Diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from elsewhere (other markets, countries and industry) and provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term

  • Provides hands on technical leadership within a product team

  • Gets energy from motivating others to success

What you bring

  • Proven technology leadership. Hands-on mastery proficiency in Golang & Python, Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc.) as well as Cloud Native Platform Development with Azure Services

  • Extensive domain and technical expertise with experience of developing flex trading tools and solutions on an Azure cloud platform

  • Deep expertise with (battery) asset control and scheduling use cases and managing telemetry data

  • Gas/Power Trading knowledge - Short-term trading, physical assets trading (CCGT, Wind, Solar, Battery)

  • Expertise in Risk - Modelling & comprehensive understanding of risk management

  • Extensive experience in Commodity Modeling - Specializing in energy (power, gas, environmental products) and meteorology

  • Knowledge of Information Management, data strategy and governance

  • Commercial skills in Value Assurance, Value estimation and Realization, end-to-end value mapping

  • Proven excellent communication skills, internally and externally, to management levels and a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

  • High emotional intelligence, integrity and trustworthiness

What we offer

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 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 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.

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

  • Join an organisation 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 programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The United Kingdom

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell-branded service stations.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net-zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.