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About the Role

As a Lead Data Product Manager within the Shell Energy Chief Data Office, you will own the business-led data product strategy, acquisition design, and delivery for Shell Energy Trading & Supply. You will translate trading, risk, finance, and operations needs into high-value data products, define onboarding priorities, data contracts, target-state designs, and adoption outcomes. Partnering with the Information & Digital Technology group, you will provide deep commodities data context and business design authority to ensure engineered solutions are fit for trading use and deliver measurable business value.

Responsibilities

Own business-led data product strategy, acquisition design and ingestion priorities
Define the business target state and product roadmap for source onboarding, data acquisition priorities, data contracts, schemas, controls and service expectations across trading, risk, finance and operations
Provide product and design authority on what the data product needs to do for the business, including usability, quality, timeliness, lineage, adoption, control requirements and measurable value delivery
Partner with IDT to ensure technical designs on Azure data platforms are fit for purpose, while maintaining clear separation between business design ownership and IDT-led engineering build, infrastructure, cyber and operational run
Industrialise onboarding of sources such as ETRM/Endur, Trayport, market data vendors, SAP and operational data feeds through clear product requirements, SLAs, observability needs, runbook expectations and adoption measures
Translate business context into product outcomes and engineered delivery
Bring deep commodities data knowledge across trading lifecycles, market data, reference data, ETRM workflows and risk/finance dependencies to shape practical, commercially relevant solutions
Translate trading desk, risk, operations and finance needs into a prioritised product backlog, clear epics/stories, acceptance criteria and value measures that IDT and engineering teams can deliver against
Contribute to and challenge designs constructively, shaping best practice and partnering with IDT accountabilities for engineering delivery, platform operations or solution architecture ownership
Partner with Product Owners, Business Interface, Solution/Data Architects and IDT delivery leads to align business requirements, data models, master data standards, prioritisation, adoption and delivery plans
Steward business data definitions, ownership, lineage, metadata, quality KPIs, access requirements and product adoption metrics; chair data change forums and ensure decisions are grounded in commodities trading context
Apply Shell’s technical information & data lifecycle: register, receive, set up/load, update/maintain, publish/archive or dispose; uphold audit trail and records management
Maintain clear decision rights between business SME data ownership and IDT technical delivery, ensuring requirements, controls and acceptance criteria are agreed before build and evidenced at handover
Shape product capacity plans, skills roadmap and vendor contributions; foster a culture of safety, compliance, customer focus and continuous improvement
Oversee resilience, recoverability and cyber hygiene; meet controls for data privacy, confidentiality and regulatory obligations in trading (e.g., REMIT/EMIR, privacy)
Drive incident, change & problem management; measure and report service health and user satisfaction

Requirements

Deep commodities data knowledge, ideally within energy trading, including ETRM/Endur workflows, market data, reference data, trade lifecycle, risk, finance and operations data dependencies
Proven ability to translate business needs into data product designs, requirements, data contracts, controls, prioritised backlogs and adoption outcomes that engineering teams can execute
Strong product and technical judgement across modern data platforms, ingestion patterns, APIs, streaming/batch, schema management, CDC, metadata, lineage and data quality, with the ability to assess what good looks like
Experience leading cross-functional product delivery through Product Owners, architects, engineers and business SMEs; comfortable shaping acceptance criteria, priorities, value measures and handover into production
Practical exposure to Azure data services, Databricks, SQL, Python/Spark, event-based integration and DevOps practices; hands-on engineering experience is beneficial
Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience

Skills

Commodities data knowledge
Energy trading
ETRM/Endur workflows
Market data
Reference data
Trade lifecycle
Risk data dependencies
Finance data dependencies
Operations data dependencies
Data product design
Data product requirements
Data contracts
Data controls
Prioritised backlogs
Adoption outcomes
Modern data platforms
Ingestion patterns
APIs
Streaming
Batch processing
Schema management
CDC
Metadata
Data lineage
Data quality
Azure data services
Databricks
SQL
Python/Spark
Event-based integration
DevOps practices
Engineering experience

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Regular
Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced Professionals

Education Level

Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
Azure Data Engineer certification
Databricks certification
Data governance certification

Benefits

Competitive starting salary
Annual performance related salary increase
Paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents
Flexible working options
Wide range of training and development programmes

About the Company

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs.
Shell UK aims to play a crucial role in strengthening energy security and delivering the UK's 2050 net-zero goal.
Shell aims to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.

Equal Opportunity

Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates.
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, or other) during the application or interview process, please let us know when prompted in your application.
We strive to ensure that our process and workplace is accessible to everyone and are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments to support your needs.