Principal Front Office Developer - London, United Kingdom - EDF Trading

EDF Trading

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Reports to:
T rading IT Delivery Manager

Location:
London

Who we are

EDF Trading is a 100% owned subsidiary of EDF SA., one of the world's biggest electricity generators and a leader in low-carbon production.

EDF Trading recognises the importance of attracting, retaining and developing diverse world-class professionals.

We identify, foster and reward all talent, valuing and leveraging the diversity amongst our people to offer creative and innovative products and services to the EDF Group and our third-party customers.

We have a culture that enables us to be forward thinking and agile and at EDF Trading, individuals can really make a difference.

Everyone shares a common vision and a team spirit that encourages people to make things happen. EDFT is about working together, embracing the challenge and delivering exceptional customer service.

We continuously test our understanding and thinking through innovation and new ideas, anticipating and reacting swiftly to changes in our industry.

We believe in hard work, but in a relaxed atmosphere and operate in an environment where innovative thinking is encouraged.

At EDF Trading, you will find people from a wide range of backgrounds.

Our people are vital to our continued success and our future depends on attracting and retaining the best individuals who think in a different way.

It has a cosmopolitan mix of more than 30 nationalities and over 35 spoken languages which creates a rich diversity of talent contributing to its creativity and innovation amongst its 800 employees with key offices in London, Paris, Singapore and Houston.

EDF Trading is active in the electricity, natural gas, LNG, LPG, oil, coal and freight and environmental products markets. It is one of the largest wholesale market traders in Europe for power and gas.

Its affiliate, EDF Trading North America is one of the leading marketers of gas and power in the US, one of the main providers of generation services for power generation companies in the US and a leading US energy retailer for large commercial and industrial customers.

EDF Trading operates in the global LNG, coal and freight markets through a third stake in JERA Trading, one of the leading utility backed global coal and LNG traders.

What we do
The Front Office Delivery IT team looks after the Traders, Originators and Analysts bespoke IT requirements.

We provide a wide range of solutions for both commercial Decision Support and more tradition 'IT' based activities, such as interfacing with third party systems for control/processes.

Generally, we build in a Microsoft stack working closely with the traders/analysts wherever possible. The team is streamlined and the work ranges from a couple of weeks to several months in length. Equally we often find ourselves multitasking to fit in the more immediate demands.

Some of the work requires excellent engineering skills, while other a better grasp of what drives values for the commercial desks.

The team encourages empowerment and accountability which sees us employ a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on getting the job done.

The environment is friendly - and as a team we work to support each other.

Most systems are distributed solutions utilising Angular, WebAPI, C# and relational databases (Oracle or SQL Server), however we are bursting into more open source tech as needed.

What we are looking for
We have an opening for someone talented to join our commercial-facing Front Office IT Delivery team.

Ideally to thrive the skills we are looking for are:

The ability to understand a system or problem quickly, while working in a relatively fast-moving environment. Being able to fill in requirement gaps using past commodities experience.
We often need to define system architectures, whether it be Enterprise or Tactical. Once we have defined a solution we then need to communicate and work with various teams, you will also need to develop the solution. There is an expectation that you will lead design.
An understanding of what's needed to make a system supportable is valued. We do support some of our developed system, having the aptitude to offer this, and the ability to build robust systems is a core skill.
Be interested in technology and what's new, breaking it down to where it can add value to our commercial teams.
We find ourselves looking at new problems and technologies that we don't always have the skills to managed so the drive to pick up new things (with support/training) as required.
Willingness to undertake analysis and testing in certain situations and where possible derisk this with test automation. Leadership in test automation, proposing and implementing on a project.
You will be open, and transparent and provide support and leadership to other developers.
You will be able to work in a team, and lead projects. You will also lead others in technical design.
You will take ownership and responsibility for delivery of a p