Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition and contribute to a journey towards becoming fossil-free.

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and enable fossil freedom. If you are looking for exciting challenges and the opportunity to be part of this change, then join our diverse and talented team and make a difference!

Our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position as

Quant Developer. 

As part of the Analysis department, Structuring & Valuation delivers valuation models and analytical expertise for pricing deals and assets. In the PPA pricing team we combine the latest market developments with long term fundamental outlook to provide front office with competitive prices for acquiring wind and solar parks.

We offer an exciting and challenging job where you work close to the business as well as with state-of-the-art technology. The position offers a mix of analytical tasks, IT tasks, and close cooperation with the front office, which gives a solid commercial understanding of our markets. The role provides an opportunity to contribute with a DevOps focus in an agile team of analysts.

The position is located in Hamburg as part of an international team of highly professional, skilled analysts, located in Hamburg and Stockholm.

Your main responsibilities: 

As a Quant Developer, your role involves having a DevOps mindset and optimizing the usage of our IT infrastructure. For example, you should enjoy working with Kafka and CI/CD pipelines. In addition to this, you should be comfortable attending tech-lead meetings and trying out new technologies to improve the Python implementation of our models. You should also be adept at working with both sophisticated mathematical models and straightforward analyses depending on what delivers the most value to our business. As a natural communicator, you should be willing to interact frequently with the Front Office (Origination, Trading). You are furthermore enthusiastic about working closely with other members of the team – sharing ideas and developing models together in an Agile setup. 

Your profile: 

• Academic degree of a relevant mathematical discipline, such as engineering, mathematics, physics, software engineering or similar
• Good Python skills
• Strong in software development skills, familiar with UML diagrams and able to implement using SOLID principles
• Experienced with tools like Git, Airflow, Kafka and Azure (we use a platform build on Azure for our models and data)
• Some experience or interest in the Energy business or financial markets
• Able to work with sophisticated mathematical models or are comfortable learning to do so
• Strong communication skills and the willingness to interact with colleagues, stakeholders and other data-driven departments
• Fluent in English. Swedish or German is an advantage

Benefits

Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information 

Location: Hamburg with partly remote work permitted.

Contract type: Permanent (after 6 months of probation).

We welcome your application in English, no later than November, 18th, 2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.
 

We look forward to receiving your application!