Data Engineer - Energy Trading - up to £90k base

Saragossa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Saragossa in London is seeking a data engineer to build front office data products for an energy trading desk. You will ingest market data, positions, trades and PnL, and turn them into datasets or visualisations.

The stack includes Tableau, Plotly Dash, Streamlit and Python with SQL. UI experience with React or Angular is a bonus. 3–5 years trading experience fits, or 5+ years with UI history. Opportunity to progress to principal.

Qualifications

• Strong data focus with SQL or data engineering background.
• UI experience with React or Angular is a bonus.
• 3–5 years trading experience, or 5+ years with UI history.
• Willingness to communicate with risk, trading and management stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build front office data products for traders and management.
• Ingest market and internal data (positions, trades, PnL) and turn it into datasets or visualisations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements and priorities.

Job description

Build the data products that front office traders and management use to make decisions.

This team runs front office data for an energy trading business. You'll take market data and fundamental data, bring in internal data like positions, trades and PnL, and turn it all into data products. Sometimes that's a dataset, sometimes it's a visualisation.

Historically a lot of the visualisation work was done in Tableau. More recently the team has moved to interactive tools like Plotly Dash and Streamlit. So although the title says senior data engineer, this could also suit a python developer. It's full stack in some respects, and the data engineering sits alongside that.

Stakeholders are a big part of the job. You'll deal with risk, trading and management, usually in small, regular pieces of work, so you need to be comfortable talking to them and working out what they need.

You'll have a solid data focus, with some SQL or data engineering behind you. It doesn't have to be your main strength, but it matters. UI experience would be really nice to have, or if you've worked with the likes of React or Angular.

If you've worked in trading, 3-5 years is the sort of background that fits. Coming from outside trading, you'd need 5+ years and a history of building UIs.

There's scope to be promoted to a higher rank here, including up to principal.

Would you like to build front office data products in Python for a trading desk?