# Lead Architect

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: Shanghai
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Lead Architect will be accountable for shaping and governing China’s end-to-end architecture strategy across infrastructure, applications, data and products.

The role will balance global enterprise standards with China-specific regulatory and market needs, deliver scalable and compliant solutions, and progressively build architecture capability to support business growth and transformation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own and continuously evolve the China architecture strategy, roadmap and governance across business domains, infrastructure, applications, data and future platforms.

- Translate business priorities, transformation needs and BAU localization requirements into fit-for-purpose, compliant and future-ready solution designs.

- Balance enterprise standards with China regulatory, market and technology requirements, guiding technology selection and adoption accordingly.

- Drive architecture assurance, stage gate reviews, risk management, technology standards, architecture artefacts and Tech Radar maintenance.

- Partner with IDTMs, business stakeholders and global architecture/engineering communities to shape portfolios, prioritize work and enable delivery.

- Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, including China-specific digital and AI capabilities, while scaling architecture capability as demand grows.

**Requirements:**

- 15+ years’ digital and IT experience, including 10+ years in business- and technology-focused IT architecture, with proven architecture impact and successful delivery.

- Strong end-to-end architecture experience across applications, integration, infrastructure and large-scale platforms; prior software engineering or solution architecture experience is preferred.

- Solid knowledge of Downstream, China infrastructure, China regulations and compliance, ERP/SAP, AI, and Sales & Marketing and/or Supply Chain domains.

- 10+ years’ experience leading and developing people, particularly architects and technical design teams.

- Strong delivery mindset with agile and product-focused ways of working, logical problem solving and results orientation.

- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and bilingual communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across virtual, cross-cultural and geographically dispersed teams.

## Skills

### Required
- IT architecture
- China regulations and compliance
- ERP/SAP
- AI
- leadership
- stakeholder management
- influencing
- bilingual communication

### Nice to have
- software engineering
- solution architecture

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