Core Platform Senior Software Engineer, Sg

**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**

**About the Company**

JERA Global Markets (JERAGM) is a leading utility-backed seaborne energy trader specialising in LNG, coal and freight. A joint venture between majority shareholder JERA Co., Inc. and EDF Trading, JERAGM's shareholders are among the world's major utilities.

JERAGM operates one of the largest energy portfolios in the world which gives it an in-depth understanding of the way local, regional and international energy markets behave. Its in-depth knowledge and market insights enable us to capture trading opportunities, optimise portfolios, create value and enhance security of supply for our customers.

Headquartered in Singapore, JERAGM has a global talent pool of close to 300 people across offices located in four strategic locations: Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), the UK (London) and the US (Houston).

JERAGM is strongly capitalised with over US$500 million in paid up capital and a total equity of US$4 billion. JERAGM has retained its A+ Stable rating from R&I, attributable to a robust business model and solid financial base.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

JERA GM is implementing a series of new IT systems to reduce its reliance on its shareholders for IT services and to enable the rapid growth into a global leader in the trading of fossil fuels.

At the core of the system landscape is a set of vendor systems that support critical business activities such as trading, risk management, pricing, and logistics. JERA GM have and will continue to make significant investments building on top of these systems to tailor them to the specific needs of its business. Up until now, this work has been performed by teams of consultants. JERA GM would like to develop an in-house capability, so they can be self-sufficient in the ongoing development on this platform.

This in-house capability needs to be able to extend, customise, configure and integrate these systems to meet the ongoing needs of the business. They will also support the development of new bespoke systems, such as for business intelligence and decision support, to meet needs not provided by the vendor systems.

The Core Platform Software Engineer will:

- Work to obtain excellent business knowledge of the full transaction cycle within a multi-commodity energy trading environment such that they can converse directly with users and other stakeholders with mínimal hand-holding from Business Analysts.
- Develop new features on the company's credit system (Cubelogic) and ETRM (Energy Trading and Risk Management) system to support the company's growth (new products, new processes), in a Python/Azure (Databricks & ADF)/C# / SqlServer environment.
- Demonstrate a broad set of technical skills including expert database development and administration, Python/.NET/C# development and Powershell Automation/Devops skills.
- Improve the ability to integrate vendor systems together.
- Improve the ability to unit test customisations of vendor systems.
- Improve the structure the source of such customisations.
- Work with JERA GM IT to evaluate the quality of the existing vendor system customisations and build out a prioritised backlog of improvements. Work to then safely improve the code estate to improve its flexibility and maintainability.
- Have a strong engineering focus and eye for high quality delivery. They will be expected to deliver high quality software and adhere to modern software engineering practices. They must also be driven to automate everything as this is ingrained in the culture of the team.
- Work within a hybrid internal/consultant/vendor team to deliver a backlog of new features, enhancements, bug fixes and integrations to support the ongoing needs of the LNG and Coal trading businesses. Demonstrate a strong ability to self-organise when required.
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the JERA GM technical team, whilst also demonstrating end-to-end ownership of entire problems where required.
- Show a highly proactive attitude in learning and immersing themselves in the vendor platforms with the aim of gaining an expert knowledge of how to develop and support extensions and integrations.
- Be comfortable with agile delivery modes such as Scrum or Kanban but also be flexible to work with whichever delivery approach works best for the problem at hand.
- Provide 3rd line production support.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Skills and Experience required**
- 5-10 years of overall experience with advanced level of coding experience in either Python or C# with good knowledge of other.
- Strong experience in SQL, & PowerShell
- Modern cloud-based system architectures and technologies such as Data Lakehouse using Databricks, Azure functions and ADF
- Experience with C#.NET
- Good understanding of the core language and framework
- Service oriented development (WCF, Rest API, GraphQL)
- Data access development (ADO.NET, EF or equivalent such as NHibernate)
- Extensive SQL Server database design and development skills (excellent SQL skills ass