C# .Net, Python or C++ - Front Office Trading - World Leading Energy

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

A World Leading Energy Trading company has an exciting opportunity for a Front Office Trading Developer with C# AND Python/C++ skills to join their dynamic Price Forecasting team.

Job Description:

This role will support traders and analysts by providing data gathering and manipulation tools, and developing models to facilitate supply/demand and price forecasting. This will be a fast-paced and dynamic environment where needs will be changing on a frequent basis. Working in a collaborative way with the wider IT community at the company, particularly around leveraging infrastructure and working within the control framework is essential. The ideal candidates will have a flexible mind-set and a strong track record working within commodity trading. This role will be an application developer tasked to deliver tools and applications for use directly on the trading desk. It will involve developing tools directly on top of and within an Azure cloud platform. The role is part of a small team so there is an expectation that it will involve designing, building, testing and releasing small applications and data handling tools end-to-end, independently.

Key Skills and Experience:

Essential:

* 5-7 years' experience designing, developing, and maintaining Front End applications with C# and .NET, AND 3-5 years with either Python or C++. Candidates with significant experience with all 3 languages would stand out
* Hands-on time series data experience in SQL and Python including demonstratable experience in handling large datasets
* Statistical analysis background from either academia or in practice including experience in building predictive modelling frameworks, and knowledge/application of machine learning techniques in that context
* Has built low latency solutions for data acquisition and/or trading
* Has created proprietary code libraries (with documentation) to be used by other developers
* Uses version control and manages their code base appropriately
* Has both supported their own solutions post go-live and offloaded support to a third-party
* Hands-on experience developing scalable cloud-native applications in the Azure stack

Desirable:

* 2+ Years' experience working in a trading related environment (energy & commodities trading or banking)
* Power & Emissions industry specific experience
* Knowledge of specific visualisation Tools (Spotfire etc)
* Knowledge of Excel/VBA
* Experience building visualizations and user interface linking large quantities of price and fundamental information
* Has used other Cloud offerings/Serverless computing (AWS Lambda/AZURE Functions etc)

Personal Attributes:

* Team player and able to collaborate
* Adaptable to change, versatile and pragmatic
* Uses best practice development techniques but can change approach according to conflicting timelines/risks involved
* Comfortable talking to trading business users and can translate business needs into tangible IT deliverables
* Keeps up-to-date knowledge with recent IT software developments (open source and cloud in particular)
* Uses initiative and owns end-to-end solution delivery
* Brings ideas to the table, is inquisitive and excited by new technology
* Proactively communicates and shares understanding and experience within a team
* Used to working in a flexible, independent manner on a mixture of small unstructured and large structured items

This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi-cultural environment. You also need to be a self-starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely.

We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

Specialising within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and TV & Entertainment, Eaglecliff Recruitment is ISO accredited, a Member of REC and listed within the top 4% for Financial stability by Dun & Bradstreet. Please telephone for an immediate response or email your CV for a reply within one hour.
Start date
2020-11-02
Duration
6 months Initially
From
Eaglecliff Recruitment
Published at
24.10.2020
Project ID:
1987866
Contract type
Freelance
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