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CC Lead
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CC Lead

The Role

We are looking for a talented Practice Leader /Capability CenterLeader for Native Software Engineering with great interpersonal skills to join our team. The energy transition is underway and emerging digital technologies are redefining our operating environment. As the home of technical talent for staff and contractors, Information & Digital Engineering (IDE) sits at the heart of Shell’s response to this changing landscape. Offering various capabilities spanning a broad range of technical, analytical, and strategic expertise, we provide our employees with plenty of opportunities to shape the energy transition and have a positive impact in the wider world. With us, you can grow your career, gain certifications, develop leading-edge skills, and deepen your business knowledge in an environment that’s collaborative, supportive and fun. As a growing team, our internal customers access our skills because of our focus on improvement, expertise, experience, and continuous learning.

IDE organization offers a unique opportunity for you to make an impact across a complex integrated energy value chain serving all lines of business in the Group. You could be creating new customer services in the largest Lubricants business globally, or innovating ways to grow an Aviation business which refuels five aircrafts every minute. With Shell investing significantly in renewables, there will be several opportunities to power our green engine too.

Native Software Engineering within IDE is the home for Software Engineers to collaborate and develop scalable solutions that accelerate business value, opening new possibilities for Shell. We apply deep engineering skills within a vibrant global community of natural teams, passionate about investing in people. We build commercial, production-ready software. By keeping our solutions on the right track, we gain the trust of our stakeholders and the freedom to break new ground when tackling the challenges of tomorrow.

The Practice Leader / Capability Centre Leader for Native Software Engineering will play a key role in Shell IT’s mission of delivering value differentiating products to Shell’s businesses globally. This technical leadership role aims to deepen Shell’s development capability in all parts of the backend stack, be it DevOps, Databases, Backend logic or front end. You will be responsible to support in driving the vision for software engineering technologies and processes across Shell and leading high-performance engineering teams to deliver customer-centric, value enabling business outcomes. A key aspect of your role will be recruit and develop talent from within the local market, consult with various businesses around potential cloud-native solutions to be developed. 

Objectives: - 

  • Build, nurture and grow high performance teams using Agile Engineering principles 
  • Act as a people and technical leader sharing own experience, insights and energy, adopting a hands-on approach where needed 
  • Set capability build and technical agenda for team members across the globe
  • Keep up to the ever increasing demand from business by hiring right practitioners for the right job and retain / develop existing high performing team members

Traits: - 

  • Thrives in uncertainty 
  • Get energy from motivating others to success 
  • Customer obsessed 
  • Empathetic to human psychology and aspects 
  • Places value in design to solve customer problems 
  • Proven excellent communication skills internally and externally to management levels and a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation 
  • High emotional intelligence, integrity and trustworthiness 

Experience

  • Seasoned Leader having 14-18years of hands on experience in Design, Development and Implementation of scalable cloud-based web and mobile applications.
  • Significant domain experience in one or more of the business areas in energy sector (downstream, upstream, integrated gas, energy trading, renewables & energy solutions). 
  • Experience in Global role managing geographically distributed teams.
  • The CC Lead is expected to Lead and collaborate across other IT natural teams (Business IT, Architect, ITSO).
  • Lead and inspire a team of Software Engineers in the US, Europe & India to deliver world class services
  • Champion the native software engineering discipline across the organisation and drive excellence across our on-prem and cloud services
  • Proven technology leadership experience in broader Microsoft and other technology stack and related frameworks & technologies (.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, React, Node, Xamarin etc). Good experience in other Back-end tech - GoLang, Middleware – REST, GraphQL, GRPC, Databases - SAP Hana, Mongo DB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL etc. Knowledge of JavaScript Frameworks - Angular, Node & React JS, etc.  
  • Knowledge of and skills in using various Azure and Amazon cloud services. Proven experience in building cloud-native apps on either or both of these cloud platforms 
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Azure Pipelines, Circle CI, GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker) and Kubernetes and Docker containerization  

Typical Job Responsibilities

  • Leads a team within a Competence Centre. Responsible for defining the capability building agenda for the team in consultation with the CC Manager, then working independently to execute the capability building and staff development of direct reports.
  • Ensures optimal resource utilization within the team and leverages contractor resources when required to balance the business requirement of right skills available at the right time and place.
  • Develops and drives functional excellence in the team through leveraging Methods and Standards, relevant market developments, and provision of quality assurance against these. Contributes to the functional excellence agenda.
  • Is the face of IT Capabilities across a limited scope of business domains, which may be more regional or local in geographical scope.
  • Has frequent exposure to and interaction with very senior levels of business leadership.
  • Works independently under minimal managerial supervision. Diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from elsewhere (other markets, countries and industry) and provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term.
  • Actively identifies new approaches that enhance efficiency and the business impact of Competence Centre Management. Represents the Company as the authority in the defined area and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Shell/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.