Front Office Developer in London

When you join EDF Trading, you'll become part of a diverse international team of experts who challenge conventional ideas, test new approaches, and think outside the box. Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade in power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.

EDF Group and our customers all over the world trust that their assets are managed by us in the most effective and efficient manner and are protected through expert risk management. Trading for over 20 years, it's experience that makes us leaders in the field. Energy is what we do.

Become part of the team and you will be offered a great range of benefits, which include (location dependent) hybrid working, a personal pension plan, private medical and dental insurance, bi-annual health assessments, corporate gym memberships, an electric car lease programme, childcare vouchers, a cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans, volunteering opportunities, and much more.

Gender balance and inclusion are very high on the agenda at EDF Trading, so you will become part of an ever-diversifying family of around 750 colleagues based in London, Paris, Singapore, and Houston. Regular social and networking events, both physical and virtual, will ensure that you always feel connected to your colleagues and the business.

Join us, make a difference, and help shape the future of energy.

Department

The Quantitative Engineering department is business focussed and prides itself in being subject matter experts across our core areas: business knowledge, research and development of derivatives models, analytical tools, producing highly scalable performant compute services for pricing and risk.

Team Description

The team working on core of EDFT's enterprise valuation platform producing risk and PnL of all deal types within EDFT's portfolio, including complex derivative structures. The team requires a high degree of technical expertise across a range of technologies and provides advice on a range of analytical technologies. The Quant Dev Core Engineering team is responsible for the new direction in service-based infrastructure of quant offering. Lastly, the group operates in a high-pressure front office environment where many requests and issues are directed to this group during a typical day and require addressing in short order. The issues are frequently complex, requiring knowledge of complex systems and coordination across multiple teams.

Core responsibilities

• Engage with the users to gather requirements and take ownership 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 in order 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.
• Advise on and implement appropriate architecture, data model, and system design and interfacing requirements for each project.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Analytics and other front office tools

• 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 Quantitative Analytics and Quantitative Development team 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.

Requirements

Required experience:

• Software development experience.

Desirable experience:

• Experience on 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 cycle.
• Understanding of financial products, preferably including derivative and option products, in addition familiarity with physically delivered commodities is desirable.
• Mathematically minded with some exposure to financial mathematical theory.

Essential technical skills:

• C# and .net experience development experience (3-5+ years).
• Working experience with API and backend services deployed to cloud based environment.
• Experience with distributed architecture and modern CI/CD practices (Docker).
• Containers / Cloud experience.
• Experience with database systems and messaging solutions (Sql Server, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis).
• Source Control Management (GIT).

Desirable technical skills:

• C++ experience / Experience with C++ interop.
• Entity Framework Core experience (Sql server, Oracle).
• Python, Java, JavaScript and other advanced languages.
• Test Driven Development.
• Build Management and Continuous Integration.
• Front End development.

Nice to have technical skills:

• Continuous integration processes, automated test execution and source code management.
• Experience with cloud modernization project.

Person specification

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an exceptional level of attention to detail.
• Good communication skills with the ability to actively engage with non-technical audiences.
• Capable of thriving in a fast paced yet collaborative and team-driven trading environment.
• Able to work effectively under pressure with traders and demanding front office users.
• Hands-on approach, flexible with a positive outlook.
• A passionate and versatile technologist with a strong interest in energy commodity trading.
• Ability to fully participate in multi-faceted team environment.
• Takes ownership of any issues that come up and facilitates their resolution quickly using own initiative while managing expectations.
• Capacity to understand business-processes quickly.
• Attention to detail and strong focus on accuracy of information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Hours of work:

8.30am – 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

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."