Market Data Integration Lead
Job Description:
What’s the role
The Market Data Integration Lead is a senior role within the Market Data & Trading Tools capability, responsible for driving the integration, adoption, optimisation, and operationalization of market data across Shell Energy Trading.
Reporting to the Head of Market Data & Trading Tools within the Chief Data Office (CDO), the role serves as the senior technical and business authority for market data integration, onboarding, consumption, and adoption across Front Office, Risk, Quants, Commercial Operations, Trading Technology, and ETRM platforms.The role holder will partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure market data is sourced, integrated, governed, distributed, and consumed effectively across the enterprise. This includes market data originating from trading and execution platforms such as Trayport and E-Star, alongside strategic market data providers including Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, S&P Global Platts, Argus, exchanges, brokers, and OTC market participants.
A key responsibility of the role is to continuously assess the market data landscape across Shell Energy Trading, identifying opportunities to simplify architecture, improve integration, increase data reuse, optimise market data spend, strengthen governance, and accelerate adoption of strategic market data capabilities.
The role requires deep technical expertise across market data technologies, APIs, real-time and end-of-day market data platforms, cloud-based data architectures, event-driven systems, market data engineering, automation, and downstream trading workflows. Success will be achieved through a combination of technical leadership, commercial understanding, stakeholder influence, and domain expertise.
Success in the role will be demonstrated through increased adoption of CDO-enabled market data platforms, improved integration consistency, faster onboarding of market data consumers, reduced operational risk, stronger transparency of ownership and lineage, improved data quality controls, and better utilisation of market data spend across Shell Energy Trading.
What you’ll be doing
Market Data Strategy Execution & Capability Enablement
Partner with the Head of Market Data & Trading Tools to execute the market data strategy, roadmap, and operating model across Shell Energy Trading. Translate strategic priorities into scalable integration capabilities, adoption plans, standards, and measurable business outcomes across Front Office, Risk, Quants, Finance, Operations, Technology, and ETRM platforms.
Market Data Landscape Optimisation
Assess the current market data landscape across trading, risk, analytics, and operational platforms to identify opportunities for simplification, rationalisation, reuse, cost optimisation, improved governance, and reduced duplication of sourcing and integration efforts. Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and industry trends to inform future-state integration capabilities.
Market Data Integration & Platform Adoption
Drive adoption of CDO-enabled market data platforms and services across Front Office, Risk, Quants, Finance, Operations, Technology, ETRM platforms, analytics environments, and downstream business applications. Establish standard onboarding and integration patterns to ensure market data consumers adopt strategic capabilities consistently, efficiently, and in line with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
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.
Shell is working to advance an inclusive, psychologically safe and accessible environment where people with disabilities can excel. If you require any accommodations or accessibility adjustments (e.g. assistive technology, communication support, any other) during the application or interview process, please let us know directly via . We strive to ensure that our process and workplace is accessible to everyone and are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments to support your needs.
Shell in The United Kingdom
Shell is a vital contributor to the UK, supporting energy security, jobs and economic value. We provide energy to fuel homes, hospitals, schools, vehicles, machinery and factories. Our history here dates back over 125 years. A UK-headquartered global energy leader, and leading FTSE multinational, we are active across the country’s energy system.
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.
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