Market Data Integration Lead

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Technical Leadership & Engineering Standards: Act as the senior technical authority for market data integration technologies, engineering standards, reference architectures, and reusable integration frameworks.
• 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.
• Stakeholder, Commercial & Knowledge Enablement: Build strong relationships with trading desks, Quants, Risk, Finance, Operations, Technology, Architecture, vendors, and governance teams.

Requirements:

• 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.

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:

• 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.