Market Data Integration Lead

• Trading Platform, Vendor & Market Data Service Integration

  • Lead technical onboarding and integration of market data from trading platforms, execution venues, vendors, exchanges, brokers, and OTC markets, including Trayport, E-Star, Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, CME, S&P Global Platts, Argus, Wood Mackenzie, and other strategic providers.
  • Drive standard connectivity approaches using APIs, streaming services, SDKs, SFTP, vendor-native interfaces, and enterprise-approved integration patterns.
  • Partner with Technology teams and vendors on evaluations, proof-of-concepts, technical due diligence, and onboarding activities.

• Technical Leadership & Engineering Standards

  • Act as the senior technical authority for market data integration technologies, engineering standards, reference architectures, and reusable integration frameworks.
  • Promote API-first design, event-driven architecture, cloud-native patterns, automation, observability, resilience, and scalable support models across Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Solace, RMDS/TREP, and related technologies.

• Governance, Licensing & Operational Control

  • Partner with governance, compliance, audit, commercial, and technology stakeholders to strengthen market data governance, data quality, lineage, observability, licensing compliance, entitlement management, redistribution controls, and operational risk management.
  • Improve transparency of market data ownership, usage, consumption, and lifecycle controls across Shell Energy Trading.
  • Act as the recognised subject matter authority during material incidents involving market data feeds, partnering with vendors and internal teams to support resolution and service improvement.

• Stakeholder, Commercial & Knowledge Enablement

  • Build strong relationships with trading desks, Quants, Risk, Finance, Operations, Technology, Architecture, vendors, and governance teams.
  • Lead through influence rather than line management, partnering with Technology teams, vendors, and a broader matrix of delivery and commercial stakeholders to execute against the strategy.
  • Partner on subscription onboarding, commercial engagement, documentation, knowledge sharing, and adoption of enterprise market data capabilities.
  • Direct the maintenance of documentation for data sources, integration patterns, data dictionaries, and operational runbooks within the CDO knowledge base to enable self-service adoption.
  • Identify opportunities to optimise market data expenditure through consolidation, rationalisation, improved utilisation of strategic platforms and services, and reduction of redundant subscriptions.

What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in market data engineering, market data integration, or market data transformation within Financial Services or a trading house, with direct experience supporting Commodities or Energy trading desks.
• Strong understanding of energy markets including Gas, Power, LNG, Carbon, Environmental Products, and related commodities.
• Proven experience assessing and optimising complex market data ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience working with market data from Trayport and E-Star platforms.
• Strong understanding of exchange-traded and OTC market structures and associated market data flows.
• Strong knowledge of Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, CME, S&P Global Platts, Argus, and related market data services.
• Experience integrating data through REST APIs, FIX, WebSockets, SFTP, streaming technologies, and vendor SDKs.
• Strong programming capabilities in Python, C#, SQL, and modern integration technologies.
• Practical experience with Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-native data platforms.
• Experience working with Kafka, Solace, RMDS/TREP, and real-time messaging technologies.
• Experience with automation platforms including Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Ansible, Power Automate, or similar tooling.
• Strong understanding of market data licensing, entitlement management, and redistribution controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across global trading operations, Risk, and Technology organisations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with any market data inventory and governance platforms.
• Familiarity with Chief Data Office operating models and data governance frameworks.
• Experience implementing metadata management, lineage, observability, and data quality capabilities.

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.
• 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.
• Make an impact in one of the world’s leading energy trading businesses.
• 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 considered to be among the best in the world.
• 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.

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