Energy Trading Specialist

Era4; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Era4, a UK-based company developing renewable-energy powered AI infrastructure, seeks a Power Trading, Energy Analytics & Optimisation Specialist to support trading, balancing, and optimisation across its portfolio.

You will forecast prices, optimise assets, validate data for finance, and develop pricing and forecasting models. Strong analytical skills and energy-market experience are essential for collaboration with senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in an energy or commodities trading environment.
• Experience trading power, including import and export positions.
• Strong understanding of short-term trading, imbalance management, and optimisation.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret large data sets.
• Ability to communicate complex information to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with flexible assets or generation portfolios.
• Programming or advanced analytics skills (Python, SQL, VBA).
• Interest in applying AI and machine learning to trading and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Execute short-term trading and imbalance management strategies.
• Forecast forward power prices and support import/export decisions.
• Optimise flexible assets across OTC, balancing, and ancillary services markets.
• Monitor market conditions and adjust positions to manage risk and maximise value.
• Produce clear reporting on trading performance, imbalance costs, and optimisation outcomes.
• Provide insight to senior leadership and the wider business.
• Act as a key interface between the Energy team and operational asset teams.
• Support contract review and regulatory compliance for power and energy agreements.

Skills

Power trading

Imbalance management

Analytics

Python

SQL

VBA

Stakeholder communication

AI/ML interest

Generation portfolios

Tools

Python

SQL

VBA

Job description

Era4 develops, owns and operates AI infrastructure across the UK, powered by renewable energy. Converting legacy industrial and energy sites into modern data-centre facilities, Era4 is combining brownfield regeneration opportunities with cleaner, efficient, scalable compute capacity for healthcare, research, finance, enterprise, and public-sector organisations.

We are seeking a Power Trading, Energy Analytics & Optimisation Specialist to support energy trading, balancing, and optimisation activities across the portfolio. The role combines short-term and forward power trading, imbalance management, analytics, data validation and stakeholder engagement, with a strong focus on adding value, governance, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute short-term trading and imbalance management strategies.
• Forecast forward power prices and support import and export trading decisions.
• Optimise flexible assets across OTC, balancing, and ancillary services markets.
• Monitor market conditions and adjust positions to manage risk and maximise value.

Analytics & AI Enablement:

• Analyse market data to support trading and optimisation.
• Validate operational data to support the finance team.
• Develop and maintain pricing, forecasting, and asset optimisation models.
• Contribute to the use of AI as a decision-support tool for forecasting and analytics.

Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Produce clear reporting on trading performance, imbalance costs, and optimisation outcomes.
• Provide insight to senior leadership and the wider business.
• Act as a key interface between the Energy team and operational asset teams.

Governance & Contracts:

• Ensure compliance with trading governance and regulatory requirements.
• Support contract review and negotiation for power and energy agreements.
• Assess charging structures and tariffs to optimise commercial outcomes.

Team Contribution:

• Support wider business activities including forward strategy, systems, and data.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and development within the team.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience in an energy or commodities trading environment.
• Experience trading power, including import and export positions.
• Strong understanding of short-term trading, imbalance management, and optimisation.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret large data sets.
• Ability to communicate complex information to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with flexible assets or generation portfolios.
• Programming or advanced analytics skills (Python, SQL, VBA).
• Interest in applying AI and machine learning to trading and analytics.

Why Join Era4:

You’ll be joining a mission-driven start-up building critical national infrastructure, where operational excellence directly enables growth. This role offers high visibility with leadership, real autonomy, and the chance to shape how a next-generation company operates at scale.