IT Advisor

**The Role**:
**Where you fit in**

Shell’s global Trading and Supply business is one of the largest energy trading operations in the world with key hubs in Singapore, Dubai, Houston, London, and Rotterdam, trading in crude oil, natural gas, LNG, electrical power etc. Our business in Asia has set huge growth targets for the coming years with major focus on green and sustainable energy.

If you are:

- Seeking an opportunity to use your knowledge of the power domain digital technology to drive an ambitious vision for growth and net zero
- Committed to being the best version of yourself and helping others to learn and generate new ideas that make life better for you, your colleagues, and our business
- Commercially minded, self-starter with the energy and commitment to drive opportunities from identification to realization

Read on to find out more

**What’s the role?**

As an IDT Advisor - Power, you will touch the whole spectrum of IT delivery - identifying and defining the business needs of the users and stakeholders, guiding solution design to meet those business needs in line with both, business and IT, strategic roadmaps, ensuring seamless fit between processes, training, and solutions, protecting and exploiting value realization of product and information management investments, all in close alignment with the natural team (i.e. group of team members from different parts of Shell working on a common project/product delivery). You will also play a leadership role within the natural team through coaching, teaching and supporting other team members, participating in the delivery team leadership discussions, and for those coming with technical expertise, serving as the Tech Lead for the domain. You will report to the IT and Digital Manager for Asia based in Singapore

Your further accountabilities include the following:

- Influencing, helping shape, and ensuring all delivery preserves or aligns to the portfolio / product roadmap and strategies.
- Developing and maintaining a strong domain expertise with deep process, data, and tools knowledge within the portfolio.
- Creating a collaborative and learner mindset environment to spread business/technical knowledge across natural teams.
- In association with the IT support organization, ensuring the stability, integrity and performance of the operational environments and the realization of identified improvement opportunities and requirements.
- Handing over knowledge to the IT support organization to enable supportability of operational environments
- Initiating and driving the execution of small enhancement activities.
- Building trusted partnerships across multiple stakeholders such as Business Interface Managers, business partners, suppliers, project/product team members, and the IT support organization.
- Providing consultancy and occasionally leading initiatives to support operations in security, incident/problem management, change management and other run and maintain activities.
- Partnering with Data and Solution Architects to ensure correct translation of specifications/design into high level design and technical specifications.
- Ensuring compliance of design with the principles of simplification and standardization.
- Supporting the development of Training Material.
- In some cases, play a lead role to manage delivery of enhancements and small projects.
- You will also be expected to focus on a specific product or project where you will play both a key delivery and strategic role. You’ll thrive as the expert and go-to person in the area for many of the design, strategy and other ongoing activities and initiatives alluded to in the accountabilities list above.

**What we need from you**

We’re keen to hear from individuals who have extensive experience within a power / electricity domain, who aspire to embed themselves in our team, grow into an SME as outlined above and contribute to the growth of Shell’s journey towards net zero.
- Power generation
- Power and/or environmental products trading
- Power retail businesses

Further requirements are as follows:

- 7+ years of total experience in IT with at least 2+ years in close partnership with development teams and businesses.
- 3+ years of experience in the power domain businesses, with a deep knowledge of IT and business landscape.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Committed to learning and staying abreast to internal and external trends and best practices
- Capacity to cultivate and continuously expand expertise in a domain.
- Able to act as a focal point for a specialized area (technical or business), able to lead teams without formal authority, while managing multiple competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills, being comfortable interacting with and able to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to deal with conflict and ambiguity effectively.
- Team player. Able to work effectively with all levels and parts of business and IT organi