I'm an IT grad, is there any future for a long term career here? I have some senior mentors, that were impacted in the last round.
What IT field will be most successful at shell?
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I could see solution architect roles move to cloud architect in the future. I don't know how much on-prem infrastructure will be used few years from now. There will be some but I think more and more will move to the cloud. Especially for AI/ML projects. I don't know about DevOps engineers in the US.
Any cloud architecture roles or devops in USA?
No future unless you work in India
Nope. Forget about AI engineer. I am one in the US and you can enjoy a long hard career of trying to get charge codes over cheaper Indians. When I have work, it’s almost always fixing Indians first attempt even if it would be faster to throw it out and start over. They are literally 1/10th the cost so nobody cares how many times they sc--w up. The business cares about cost, not quality. The business literally has no idea or interest in how to measure code quality and project delivery.
We also have zero promotion track. Work on our promotion track is always “under review” and “about to come down the pipe to the whole org”. We are absolutely not a priority in any way.
I was fairly upset when I wasn’t unmapped. Not that it would matter - since the board froze internal resourcing for like 1.5 years to do their ungodly slow reorg nightmare.
Anyway - do not do any IT or coding or anything close in Shell americas. You’d have to be crazy. To say it’s demoralizing is putting it lightly.
It’s too bad that Trump backed down on H1B reform because these welfare queen companies like Shell love offshoring work from our soil. FYI the dutch have laws for hiring their own over others and they run the company so you should not respect their hypocritical opinions in the matter.
Shell is not the company it once was, with established career paths, assignment rotations, a collegial community of peers, top-tier benefits and secure retirement pensions. But then no major US corporation is.
Career security is YOUR assignment.
CYA should be your guiding mantra.
Can you explain why you think there will be over 800 IT staff in the US? Shell doesn't have shale acreage in the US anymore. Our only conventional asset is GOM Deepwater. Downstream assets are likely to be sold off within the next 5-7 years. I believe it'll be closer to 200 people by 2030.
Taken all relevant industry standard certifications payed by shell and ensure your market value goes up, be prepared to leave any moment when asked.
Yes there is a future, US is still one of the core hubs - however future opportunities need to relate to work that really makes sense in that location, so role involving the need to be in close proximity to our businesses there, plus some limited follow the sun type roles. E.G. infrastructure service development unless its very specific to specific assets etc doesn’t make sense to be done from the US given the significant extra cost, and availability of these skills elsewhere, work relating to supporting traders etc however very different, needs to be close by. Options are more limited but you are still talking an IT org of over 800
I have been in highly technical roles for many years inside and outside of Shell. IT is not the stablest of jobs, no matter the size of the company.
There is limited future for IT at Shell in America.
- IT Project Managers that can handle complex projects
- AI/ML Engineers
- Cybersecurity, Robotics
- Data Scientist (will takeover the data architect role along with their data science activities)
- Cloud and Enterprise Architects
- DevOps Engineers (be able to handle app development from requirements gathering, analysis, development, testing, and implementation. This is where I think IT could lose staff to people with a background in engineering who know the oil and gas discipline really well and can use AI to build apps).
Only in India