Quantitative Developer

EDF Trading Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy trading firm based in Greater London is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join their Quantitative Solutions team. The ideal candidate will have software development experience with a focus on C/C+ and Python. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining the firm's derivative systems, supporting business requirements, and enhancing analytical tools. This fast-paced environment offers opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Software development experience required.
• Experience in a technology team within a financial institution is desirable.
• Understanding of trade life cycle in energy or commodity trading is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Engage with the Head of Quantitative Development for project delivery.
• Develop and maintain derivative systems infrastructure.
• Support business requirements analysis and technical advice.

Skills

C/C+ development experience

Python experience

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Understanding of financial products

Job description

The Quantitative Solutions department is business focussed and prides itself in being subject matter experts across our core areas: business knowledge, research and development of derivatives models and strategies, analytical tools, producing scalable performant services for pricing and risk.**Team Description**The Quantitative Development team is part of Quantitative Solutions which sits in the Front Office and is the centre of quantitative development capability for EDF Trading. It has direct responsibility over the development and maintenance of EDF Trading’s derivative systems infrastructure. The team also provides other front office analytical tools for both traders and structurers, with the support of other teams in the group.**Core Responsibilities**Development* Engage with the Head of the Quantitative Development team for the delivery of any development work within the agreed timelines.* Adhere to the company’s standards and best practices, including, but not limited to, documentation, testing and peer review* Use technology appropriately and flexibly, taking into consideration the company’s strategy and recommendations.* Provide full visibility of work undertaken via backlog of requests.* Implement software engineering best practices and develop high quality code with appropriate test coverage · Refactor and enhance existing components and solutions to standardise and reduce duplication.* Provide detailed documentation of the application/component features being developed.* Assist production operations team in testing, rollout and production support.* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.Analytics and other front office tools* Be able to develop and support and carry out investigations on the company’s main derivative analytics’ platform under the supervision of a senior member of the team.* Be able to support and further develop other desktop tools built by the quantitative development team.* Take ownership of the development infrastructure required by the above tools and, whenever possible, adopt the company’s standard toolset for source code repository, continuous build and deployment.* Work closely with other teams in the group on various technical aspects such as model integration, performance, improvements and tracking issues to deliver highly reliable and highly complex technical solutions.* Coordinate and communicate specific subject matter knowledge to the design and integration phase of each project.Support to the Business* Engage with the business to assist them in understanding and defining their requirements for any systems and tools supported by the team.* Provide technical advice to the business units by identifying the most appropriate tools/processes for any given task.**Experience Required**Required experience: Software development experience Desirable experience: Experience in a technology team within a financial institution, ideally in a front office Previous experience working within a trading operation, preferably energy or other commodity trading, with a full understanding of the trade life cycleUnderstanding of financial products, preferably including derivative and option products, In addition familiarity with physically delivered commodities is desirable.Essential technical skills: · C/C+ development experience Python experience Desirable technical skills: Nice to have technical skills: Ability to participate in multi-faceted team environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills We are committed to equipping our employees with the tools that will enable them to fulfil their job to the highest standard. To that end we offer a wide range of technical and personal development courses both in-house and through third-party providers."It is a fast-paced and dynamic working environment where each day is interesting and challenging. There’s also an incredible pool of talent and skills within EDFT. I’m continuously learning from my colleagues.""There is no ‘typical’ day. I work on a wide range of compensation, benefit and mobility projects throughout the year. One thing’s for sure though, I’ll have my head in a spreadsheet at some point."