Trafigura

Trafigura

Python Engineer, Beacon – Gas, Power & Renewables Technology

Houston, United States of America

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
PythonKafkaLogisticsCommunicationRenewable Energy

About the role

  • And we work with our stakeholders to improve environmental and social standards, bringing greater trust and transparency to global supply chains.
  • You will be a core member of a small, high-impact engineering group embedded within a broader team of quants, analysts, traders, and deal desk professionals.
  • This role will work directly with the trading desk.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain risk and analytics solutions for the Power and Gas desk using Python on top of Beacon Platform
  • Collaborate with other Beacon engineers within the team to ensure consistency, code quality, and shared best practices
  • Solid understanding of quantitative modelling concepts - you will not be building models yourself, but you will be integrating them and need to understand what they do

Skills

  • Strong Python development skills
  • Experience with Apache Kafka is a plus
  • Good knowledge of commodities markets, with a preference for US power and gas (both physical and paper)
  • Familiarity with instruments such as heat rate options, gas storage products, PPAs, and tolling agreements is highly desirable
  • Confident and resilient under pressure - comfortable receiving direct, candid feedback and using it constructively
  • Able to present and explain technical approaches clearly to a mixed audience
  • Self-sufficient and delivery-focused; this is not a role with heavy management oversight
  • Reports directly to the Global Head, Gas, Power & Renewables Technology
  • Domain Knowledge
  • Key Relations and Reporting Structure
  • Reporting Line

Company info

  • What We Are Looking For

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