Senior Data Engineer

About the Role 

The Senior Data Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and evolving Shell Energy LNG's data platform capabilities. The role combines deep expertise in data engineering, integration, and cloud technologies with a passion for enabling advanced analytics, AI solutions, and digital innovation.  

The successful candidate will work closely with business, architecture, and AI teams to create scalable, trusted, and reusable data foundations that accelerate decision-making and business value. 

Accountabilities:

Data Engineering & Platform Delivery 

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines, integrations, and lakehouse solutions that support large and complex datasets. 

• Develop and deploy production-ready data solutions using modern cloud and data engineering technologies. 

• Drive performance optimization, automation, and continuous improvement across data platforms. 

Data Integration, Quality & Governance 

• Build and support data interfaces across enterprise applications, platforms, and external partners. 

• Ensure data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance requirements are embedded within solutions. 

• Maintain reliable and secure data flows through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution. 

Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery 

• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions. 

• Contribute to solution design, estimation, backlog prioritization, and Agile delivery activities. 

• Promote engineering best practices, standards, and reusable capabilities across teams. 

AI & Data Platform Innovation 

• Enable AI, advanced analytics, and data-driven decision-making by delivering trusted, high-quality data foundations. 

• Collaborate with data scientists and architects to develop scalable, AI-ready datasets and platform capabilities. 

• Identify opportunities to enhance platform scalability, interoperability, automation, and digital innovation across the business. 

Skills and Requirements 

• Significant experience in Data Engineering and Data Integration roles. 

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise-grade data platforms and integration solutions. 

• Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines in cloud environments. 

• Expert in Azure, Azure Data Factory (ADF), data pipelines, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Databricks, PySpark, Python, and Kafka, with working knowledge of databases including Cosmos DB and MongoDB. 

• Proficiency in data modelling. 

• Experience implementing performance optimization techniques using PySpark and SQL. 

• Experience working with source control technologies (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps) and with build and release pipelines. 

• Hands-on experience delivering digital solutions such as enterprise data platforms, and rolling out and setting up Master Data Management, Data Catalogue, and analytics solutions to support business decision-making. 

• Experience working in Agile teams, applying best patterns and practices with an eye for quality and standards. 

• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, specifically Power Automate. 

Good to have 

• Databricks Certified Associate / Professional Data Engineer. 

• Experience with LNG business stakeholders and data products. 

• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or Generative AI solutions in production environments. 

After you submit your application, you will receive an email providing a link to an online assessment that is a mandatory part of the process and has a validity period. The email will come from Shell (HireVue) - please check your spam/junk mailbox if you do not see the email.

Once completed, your application will be reviewed to determine next steps.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• 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.

• 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. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell in Singapore

Shell is an international energy company that uses advanced technologies and takes an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. Here in Singapore, Shell has a long history and is one of the country’s largest foreign investors. It has businesses spanning trading and marketing of liquefied natural gas; refining, trading, marketing and shipping of oil products, lubricants and chemicals; low carbon solutions; and operating a network of service stations through retailers, as well as electric vehicles charging.