2 months ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain risk and analytics solutions for the Power and Gas trading desk using Python and Beacon Platform.
- Integrate quantitative models developed by the quant team into Beacon and connect them to relevant market data sources.
- Own the full development lifecycle from gathering requirements through production delivery.
- Engage directly with traders, quants, analysts, and deal desk professionals to understand business needs and present technical solutions.
- Collaborate with Beacon engineers on consistency, code quality, and shared best practices.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Gas, Power & Renewables technology stack.
Requirements
- Strong Python development skills.
- At least 2 years of hands-on development experience with Beacon Platform, Quarts, or Athena; SecDB development experience is also considered.
- Understanding of quantitative modelling concepts sufficient to integrate and work with models developed by the quant team.
- Good knowledge of commodities markets, preferably US power and gas, including physical and paper markets.
- Familiarity with heat rate options, gas storage products, PPAs, and tolling agreements is highly desirable.
- Ability to work under pressure, receive direct feedback constructively, and communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
- Apache Kafka experience is a plus.
