Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s fifth largest oil and gas producer in the world is getting further into the blockchain game, and is looking to train the next generation of blockchain industry.
Shell is looking for “blockchain analysts” as part of its Information Technology (IT) graduate programme, according to a job listing on its graduate careers website in the following disciplines: mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
The job specification, the placement will take place in Shell‘s Blockchain Centre of Excellence (CoE). But what does a “blockchain analyst” even do?
They will be responsible for taking potential use cases from “ideation” through to implementation. This will include finding new applications of not just blockchain but other decentralized technologies.
It will then be the responsibility of the analyst to sell these potential uses to the rest of the business, the job listing states.