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.

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 traditional ‘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.

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 the gaps in conversations can be a useful skill.
• 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!
• Understanding system building blocks and concepts, combined with experience can help here.
• 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 what it can offer in our environment.
• Willingness to undertake analysis and testing in certain situations – and where possible de-risk this with test automation.
• Show ability to leverage AI tools to improve code quality, test coverage and delivery efficiency.

Main responsibilities:

• Implement new features and enhancements for several front-office tools.
• Provide post-deployment support, where required.
• Be responsible for end-to-end delivery of any change from analysis and solution design through to implementation and release.
• Adhere to the company’s best practices and guidelines for software development and DevOps.
• Document changes and test scenarios.

Experience required:

• Ideally experienced working at an energy trading house, investment bank or a leading software house specialising in providing software based solutions.

Technical requirements:

• Solid grasp of core C# concepts and awareness of coding practices.
• Experience with relational databases (preferably Oracle or SQL Server).
• Good understanding of code testing principles.
• Ideally, the candidate should have knowledge in some of the following technologies:
• Working knowledge of Angular or React (Angular preferred).
• Windows Server hosting.

Person Specification:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a good level of attention to detail.
• Ability of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills with the ability to actively engage with non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on approach, flexible and positive attitude.