Data Engineer- Energy Market Digitalisation, Trading & Origination
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Company Description
Data Engineer- Energy Market Digitalisation, Trading & Origination
Location- Dusseldorf, Germany
Why Statkraft
Statkraft has been making clean energy possible for over a century. That’s what we offer. 125 years of unrivalled expertise in supplying the world with what it needs most. We envision a world that runs entirely on renewable energy. Because in the fight against climate change, we don’t see renewable energy as part of the solution – we believe it must be the solution and we need your help in doing that. With us, you’ll shape and build a career that is truly forward-facing with many amazing opportunities and offerings to match.
Working in Digitalization, Trading & Origination (T&O)
Statkraft is a major market participant in Energy Trading. As part of the Trading & Origination Department (T&O), the Digitalization Unit is driving forward T&O’s digitalization agenda and will play a crucial and fundamental role in creating a novel framework which ensures that the Trading & Origination Department delivers on its strategic targets of expanding both the proprietary trading and customer service businesses.
The Digitalization Unit ultimately provides an essential strategic partnering bridge between the commercial business needs and the IT solutions available. Working as part of the Digitalization Unit you will quickly be able to make an impact through.
Job Description
As a member of the Digitalization team, your main responsibilities will be to drive the development, adoption, and support the ingestion, handling, storing, and cleaning and distribution of data within the trading division. This will involve collaborating closely with traders, desk analysist and central teams to understand their data needs. You will then translate these requirements into epics and stories, manage prioritization and delivery, and oversea the implementation of data governance solutions, automation, and data ingestion from external and internal sources in a large-scale data environment.
To excel at this position, it is crucial to be able to work effectively in a fast-paced front office environment, engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders who have varying contexts, locations, and levels of familiarity with large-scale data.
Given the focus on energy market, having experience of commodity domain and a strong grasp of Data Management and Governance is essential.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for ensuring the quality of T&O’s common data assets, data sets and data elements (including metadata), and where necessary formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data.
- Manage the implementation of efficient and secure procedures for data handling and analysis with attention to all technical aspects and provide operational support to business area users when data sets are missing or incorrect.
- Apply best practices when storing, organizing and cleaning data, and ensuring the capture, report and follow up on any missing data from our data providers.
- Configure, monitor and analyze information and data systems and assets for T&O, and evaluate their performance to discover ways of enhancing them.
- Provide governance and oversight of T&O’s data assets, existing datasets, data environments and relevant data procedures, with the proactive planning and enforcement of data asset naming convention.
- Elicit, capture and analyse end-user requirements to ensure that T&O business needs are adequately addressed.
- Co-ordinate, prioritize and ensure operationalization of data to production systems as and when required.
- Coordinate with Data Vendor Management for sourcing of data, and assist with data extraction and reports as needed.
- Ensure that data usage and management protocols are within license requirements and legal and company standards.
Qualifications
Your Profile:
- Relevant education and work experience in the area of Finance, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics.
- Good understanding and interest of the trading business and commodity markets/various asset classes.
- Experience with data management and market data in commodity markets is essential. Good understanding of data, data structures & data storage; meta data management
- Experience with timeseries and cross-sectional types of data from other asset classes or business areas.
- Programming expertise in Python is required (Experience with data analysis-related packages such as pandas, numpy, and matplotlib is desired).
- Programming knowledge in Spark, SQL and API development
- Strong data pipeline engineering skills / DB Architecture and RDBMS understanding (e.g. Schema design)
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and communicate well across various environments.
- Detail oriented mentality, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work under time pressure.
- Fluent in English both oral and in writing.
Additional Information
What we offer:
A career with Statkraft is a career filled with purpose – meaning that every employee is not just making a living, they are making a real difference to the planet, our communities and the future. Together, we work on the front lines of changing the game for renewable energy. From hydrogen development to algorithmic trading and everything in between. We have 125 years of unrivalled expertise in creating the technologies that put ecosystems, communities and our environment first. With us, you’ll shape a career that is truly forward-facing with many amazing opportunities and offerings to match. This includes:
- Extensive professional and personal learning and development opportunities
- The chance to grow your career alongside a truly global network of experts, leaders, specialists and graduates from different countries and backgrounds
- A diverse workplace with regard to gender, age and cultural background
Statkraft offers competitive terms of employment and benefits schemes, and we’re a trusted employer that puts the safety of our people first. We believe that a safe and healthy working environment is a matter of choice, not chance.
Statkraft manages critical infrastructure and services in several countries. The applicant must be eligible for security clearance and authorisation.
