4 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.
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About Trafigura
Trafigura is a privately held, employee-owned commodities group that buys, trades, stores, and transports energy products and metals for industrial customers and utilities worldwide. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Singapore, it operates across more than 150 countries through trading, logistics, and financing businesses. The group also holds industrial and infrastructure interests, including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel supplier Greenergy, and the Impala Terminals joint venture, while investing in lower‑carbon energy projects.