ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. With almost 100,000 employees, its customers, partners and stakeholders, the Group is committed to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmental-friendly solutions. Inspired by its purpose ("raison d'être"), ENGIE reconciles economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet, building on its key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to its customers.

GEMS (Global Energy Management and Sales) is one of the global business units of ENGIE. Specializing in energy markets, GEMS' mission is to ensure the competitiveness of ENGIE's business units and to develop its own franchise with external customers, through a comprehensive range of services related to risk management, energy asset optimization and trading. GEMS manages over all time horizons one of the largest and most diversified energy portfolios, including electricity, natural gas, coal, oil products, biomass, CO2 and environmental products and has a presence in key energy marketplaces.

Energy Management UK develops GEMS' activities in the UK and Ireland. GEM UK is currently expanding and so if you don't believe you are a good match for this role but still have an interest in joining us, do not hesitate to contact us as we may have a role that matches your talents.

Role Purpose

As the Lead - Storage Optimisation, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our short-term energy storage automated trading operations. Your primary purpose will be to create, develop, improve and maintain automated trading strategies for our BESS and hydro portfolio.

You will collaborate closely with traders, quants, developers and analysts to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions, thereby directly contributing to the success of our trading strategies.

Last, but not least, you will own the vision of the optimiser. So you will be responsible for driving the optimiser product to the level expected by the traders, which means you will have to collaborate with IS teams (local and central) to implement the UK requirements.

Main activities

• Work closely with traders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. In particular:

• Creating new optimisation strategies.

• Improve existing strategies.

• Analyse results of the strategies and to propose solutions to improve them

• Deploy the strategies in the cloud (AWS is a plus).

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth deployment and continuous integration.

• Coordinate with IS teams to:

• Explain the UK optimiser vision

• Prioritize the needs of the UK storage optimisation team

• Follow the progress of the developments

Challenges:

• Client centricity: communicate with traders, analysts and quants, understand their needs, share strategy and results, challenge their needs, and coordinate with other IS teams in Energy Management UK

• Team player: foster good collaboration and communication within the team and internally

• Adaptable: be able to react to an ever-evolving world, like energy trading, and propose reliable solutions to the changes

Experience:

Essential:

• Proficiency in Python programming

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Having optimised BESS assets in the UK is a plus.

• Strong experience in machine learning, and cloud services (AWS is a plus).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools is a plus.

• Strong communicator, with an ability to engage colleagues effectively and to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Collaborative approach to problem solving

• Confident decision maker, aware of the value at stake

• Higher education, or appropriate experience.

• Eager to learn and adapt in a fast-evolving business environment.

• Curious and proactive in exploring new technologies and solutions.

Desirable

• Experience working in trading environment close to traders.

• Energy trading knowledge.

• Data science and optimisation skills

• University degree in a quantitative area (eg IT, engineering, mathematics, economics)

Location

• Team based in London, Liverpool Street area. Flexible/hybrid working is available (minimum 2 days per week in the office)

• BP Energy Management UK: Team V&A (Valuation and Analysis)

Why ENGIE UK?

• Opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of energy supply.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Hybrid working options.
• Bonus programme.
• Healthcare cash plan.
• Employer pension contribution.
• Commitment to professional development and growth.

How to Apply

At ENGIE UK, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. In the event you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Your unique skills and experiences could be just what we need.

To apply, please submit your CV detailing your experience.

Business Unit: GEMS

Division: GEMS - BP UNITED KINGDOM

Legal Entity: INTERNATIONAL POWER LTD.

Professional Experience: Skilled ( >3 experience <15 years)

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree