Lng Front Office 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 with a platform to trade across all key markets (North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia). JERAGM is a joint venture between majority shareholder JERA Inc. (JERA) and EDF Trading.

JERAGM operates one of the largest seaborne energy portfolios in the world which gives us an in-depth understanding of the way local, regional and international energy markets behave. These insights enable us to help our customers increase security of supply, optimise their portfolios and improve the risk management of their assets.

JERAGM LNG team manages the flexibility of over 35 million tonnes of supply each year, with structural access to both the European and North American gas markets. The coal team manages 60 million tonnes of supply each year for its shareholders and third-party customers and operates a major coal terminal in the Netherlands.

The commercial hub of the company is in Singapore, with offices located in Japan (Tokyo), the UK (London) and the US (Baltimore).

DESIGNATION : LNG Front Office Software Engineer, SG

RESPONSIBILITIES

JERAGM requires an experienced software engineer to work alongside traders and analysts to specify, design, develop, improve and optimise systems to, for example:

- Optimise trading portfolios;
- Augment trading decisions with signals derived from data analytics;
- Source market and fundamental data;
- Store data for future consumption;
- Back test new trading strategies
- Redesign ETL systems/services to fit better in the long term development plan of the company

Traders and analysts in the front office at JERA GM are developing strategies, models and analytics using a variety of techniques and technologies ranging from Excel spreadsheets and Python tools, to complex optimisation and systematic trading models.

These tools are often developed rapidly to meet emerging business needs, and over time become essential operational tools. This role will support the trader and analyst team by providing guidance as to how to best make use of the technology, and also by adding the technical firepower to keep these tools robust and performant.

Working closely with the business, this role will identify where more strategic solutions are required and with then help to deliver such work by developing robust, supportable and architecturally-aligned systems, frameworks and infrastructure.

The Front Office Software Engineer will:

- Embed themselves within front office teams to tackle technical problems with decision support and analytical tools written in Excel and Python. Work collaboratively and iteratively directly with traders and analysts to manage an agreed backlog of such problems.
- Have a strong engineering focus and eye for high quality delivery. They will be expected to build robust, high-quality systems using modern software engineering techniques including automated unit/integration testing, continuous integration and automated deployment. They must also be driven to automate everything as this is ingrained in the culture of the rest of the team and provides significant long term benefit.
- Take ownership of their own learning/research to gain a deep understanding of how JERA GM’s business teams operate and how the full transaction cycle within a multi-commodity energy trading environment works. This is essential to facilitate direct communication with users and other stakeholders with mínimal hand-holding from Business Analysts
- Provide 3rd line production support for systems developed
- Work closely with other IT stakeholders to ensure that solutions are in alignment with IT strategy around business architecture, infrastructure architecture and technology.
- Work with the IT Operations/Infrastructure team to deploy solutions into JERAGM’s IT infrastructure in a sustainable way.
- Work with other IT stakeholders to ensure that there is excellent continuity of knowledge. This may mean writing documentation or taking part in handover workshops.

QUALIFICATIONS
- A strong working knowledge of the.NET framework (**C#.NET /.NET Core**, WCF/gRPC or ASP.NET Core Web API) for tackling larger scale problems such as service development and real-time data processing.
- A working knowledge of **Python**; however, it is more important to have an understanding of the limitations of the Python ecosystem and when other technologies are more appropriate.
- A working knowledge of the modern web development ecosystem and highly productive in technology stacks such as **Angular** or **React**:

- Database design (both relational and non-relational)**:SQL Server**

Ability **to architect and design solutions** using the following techniques and software engineering models:
- Data modelling (Expert level relational data modelling, Data warehouse modelling)
- Business Intelligence Architecture (ETL, ELT)
- Distributed Messag