Job Description

Data Engineer

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires a Data Engineer to be based in their client\xe2\x80\x99s office in London, UK.

This is a hybrid role. You can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 1-2 days per week.

This is a 6 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• The ideal candidates will have a flexible mindset 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 Requirements

Essential Skills

• 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 Skills

• 2+ Years\xe2\x80\x99 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

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone

If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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