IT Project Manager

Allied Reliability is seeking an IT Project Manager in Houston, TX.

Responsibilities

• Agree and deliver the Crude Data Exchange (CDE) Phase 2 program to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit objectives within Shell’s standards and controls framework.
• Lead delivery of the Azure Databricks‑based data platform, including ODS, curated data views, reporting and data product workstreams.
• Manage migration and modernisation of legacy crude trading data assets from the WONA Data Warehouse to the strategic cloud platform.
• Proactively analyse risks, dependencies and variances impacting programme delivery, particularly across business, architecture, engineering and vendor teams.
• Engage senior stakeholders across Crude Trading, Operations, Risk, Finance and Technology to align priorities and deliver business outcomes.
• Develop and execute delivery, change and engagement plans to support adoption of new data capabilities and reporting solutions.
• Mobilise and lead multidisciplinary teams comprising Shell staff, delivery partners and vendors across multiple locations.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements, ETRM data domains, architecture standards and technical delivery.
• Manage program governance, financials, RAID, scope, resourcing and benefits realization.
• Ensure delivered capabilities are operationally supportable and provide measurable business value to Crude Trading.

Mandatory Skills

• Program and project delivery up to $10 million+ budget and teams of 50+ resources.
• Extensive experience in Crude & Products Trading environments.
• Strong knowledge of ETRM platforms and trading data domains (e.g., trades, risk, positions, P&L, settlements and market data).
• Proven delivery experience of Databricks and Azure cloud‑based data platforms.
• Experience leading enterprise data migration, data warehouse modernization and cloud transformation programs.
• Strong senior stakeholder management across business and technology organizations.
• Agile program delivery across multiple engineering and data teams.
• Experience defining program scope, roadmap, dependencies and business outcomes.
• Leadership, communication, resilience and value‑delivery mindset.

Optional Skills

• Crude Oil Trading & Supply experience.
• Commodity trading analytics and reporting.
• Data governance and data management.
• Business value realisation.
• Critical thinking and storytelling.
• Project Management, Project Assurance & Compliance, Project Planning & Tracking.