Lead Architect - China
Shell — 2 Locations
Posted 2026-09-30
Shanghai, China Job Family Group: Information Technology (IT) Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: September 30, 2026 Business Unit: Information & Digital Technology Experience Level: Experienced Professionals Job Description: What’s the role 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. What you’ll be doing 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, techn