Engineers and Constructors International Inc.
Solution Architect
Engineers and Constructors International Inc., New York, New York, United States
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Our client, Shell is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net‑zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting Shell’s strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, ECI Group’s Professional Technical Services Network is seeking a skilled and seasoned
Solution Architect
to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.
This is a Houston based eleven month contract role with an anticipated start date of February 17, 2026 and ending December 31, 2026.
Note:
Must be a US Citizen or US permanent resident to qualify for this position.
As a
Solution Architect , you will 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.
Roles and Responsibilities 1. 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.
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.
2. 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.
3. Technology Foresight
Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions for Shell.
4. Standards Alignment Stay informed of developments in Shell’s IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
5. Community Engagement
Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
Desired Qualifications Industry Knowledge
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 offices 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.
Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages
Expert in one or more of the programming languages ( сделали .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 front‑end).
Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores, etc.) technologies.
Exposure to OpenLink Endur, SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.
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 startup 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 captcha 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 hvorfor, Business stakeholders), internal and external to Shell.
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Our client, Shell is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net‑zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting Shell’s strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, ECI Group’s Professional Technical Services Network is seeking a skilled and seasoned
Solution Architect
to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.
This is a Houston based eleven month contract role with an anticipated start date of February 17, 2026 and ending December 31, 2026.
Note:
Must be a US Citizen or US permanent resident to qualify for this position.
As a
Solution Architect , you will 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.
Roles and Responsibilities 1. 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.
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.
2. 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.
3. Technology Foresight
Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions for Shell.
4. Standards Alignment Stay informed of developments in Shell’s IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
5. Community Engagement
Champion architectural excellence within the organization.
Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
Desired Qualifications Industry Knowledge
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 offices 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.
Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages
Expert in one or more of the programming languages ( сделали .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 front‑end).
Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores, etc.) technologies.
Exposure to OpenLink Endur, SAP HANA, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication.
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 startup 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 captcha 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 hvorfor, Business stakeholders), internal and external to Shell.
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