Centrica • Denmark

Senior Renewable Application Developer

Employment type:  Full time

Job Description

Project Description:

Centrica has started a strategic program of modernise the PPA Trading Platform within its trading division Centrica Energy. The scope of this program, will be to buildout a platform for PPA contract capture, end to end Asset management, portfolios Risk and PnL management and full contract Life Cycle Management. This will include designing and implementing a greenfield platform for both standard and structured PPAs, streaming of Risk and PnL data from Quant model and ETRM systems, manage the renewable certificates inventory and provide right level of transparency regarding PPA production data, invoicing etc through a fresh new build out of our customer portal.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will have prior experience working on energy trading business and a solid understanding of the PPA contract lifecycle and related dataflow. Understanding of Risk, PnL and quantitative analysis will be a plus

Responsibilities of the position:

  • Working with the analysts in an agile environment to deliver all project outcomes

  • Ensure all requirements are captured for PPA contracts and its pricing terms

  • Align the platform design with the strategic goal of Digital PPA offering

  • Excellent knowledge of workflow/task setup and quantitative pricing models regarding complex options

  • Designing and knowhow of certificates inventory management

  • Adhering to the strict process of design and architecture and presenting to the Architecture forum

  • Managing and maintaining the internal release process.

  • Developing, designing and supporting the platform buildout

Must have/Should have

  • At least 10+ years of experience as Full Stack Engineer

  • Have prior experience working in a Trading environment in any of the other asset classes e.g., Equities, Rate, FX, Fixed Income etc.

  • Expert in working on a cloud native environment

  • Experience in low latency, high frequency trading platform buildout would be a huge advantage

  • Ability to guide and mentor junior developers in the team wherever required

  • Experience working in large volume of data, Risk and PnL data for Front Office Trading

  • C# (experience with the latest language features would be a plus)

  • Unit testing and automated testing in general

  • Angular, WPF

  • ASP.NET WebAPI

  • RabbitMQ, Serilog, Humio

  • GitLab, Jenkins and Octopus

  • MSSQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL

Nice to have

  • Have prior experience working on MT (Meta Trading) platform

  • ETRM Experience

  • Worked in broker dealer quote platform

  • Worked in providing trading analytics software for price forecasting and commodities demand projection

  • Good understanding of Linear Programming and Optimization

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Working at Centrica Energy


As a developer, you will be a part of a skilled Agile (Scrum or Kanban) team in our IT development department, which consists of more than 70 colleagues. You can look forward to a diverse role where you will work with different sorts of technologies and development tasks with focus on software development in C# .NET and automated tests to enable continuous delivery.

At Centrica Energy we embrace change. Requirements may change daily, and we deliver several new versions of our software every day. Thanks to a micro-service architecture, continuous delivery, and close cooperation with our in-house customers, we get immediate feedback which is as rewarding as it is challenging.

We recognize that a career in Software Development requires continuous learning. We engage our employees in Guilds driving both technical innovation, process improvements and social activities. Our Skills Guild drive learning activities such as Hackathons, Study Groups and Brown Bag Sessions, and our Social and Work Life Guild drive frequent social events such as department events, Friday Bars etc. We also have an active Staff Association that arranges all sorts of activities – ranging from Foosball tournaments to LAN Parties – bringing in people from the entire Aalborg or Copenhagen office.

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick days
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership
Health insurance
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Dental coverage
Fertility treatment leave
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Carer’s leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Equity packages
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Share options
Financial coaching
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Company car
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Location
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
82%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
83%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
88%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
80%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
82%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
84%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
85%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
72%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Centrica

Company employees

20,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Office locations

Windsor, London, Cardiff, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, Stockport, Staines, Hampton, Aberdeen, Barrow, Hull

Hiring Countries

Belgium

Denmark

Ireland

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
3rd – Consumer Goods

3rd – Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023

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