Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

The Operational Unit (OU) Operations is responsible for providing Analysis, IT, Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM), and Project Management support to the Vattenfall Assets and Trading Division - the mission is to enable business. OU Operations consists of highly skilled employees with backgrounds ranging from mathematics, engineering, economics, computer science to project management. We are present in Hamburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition.

Job Description

Do you enjoy working directly with traders and receiving feedback on your work? Do you want to help Vattenfall’s energy traders maximize their PnL? If so, this might be the job for you! You will be part of the Market Access SCRUM team within ETRM, which combines IT technical competencies with in-depth business knowledge related to exchange marketplaces, commodity trading products, and trading processes.

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways. If you are looking for interesting challenges and the opportunity to be part of this change, then join our diverse and talented team and make a difference.

For our office in Hamburg or Stockholm, we are looking for a dedicated and motivated person to fill the position of

(Senior) Energy Trading Market Access Software Specialist / 2nd Level Support

in the Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) Market Access & Intraday Solutions team.

This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious IT professionals who are looking for a challenging and diverse job within a leading energy company in one of the fastest-changing and evolving trading areas.

Market Access enables business in BA Markets through timely and sustainable delivery of application development and support in the area of Energy Trading. You will be responsible for our Market Access applications, from system analyses and daily support to change management. This includes the coordination of external software suppliers, configuration management, follow-up on market changes, and on-the-floor trader support.

Your key responsibilities:

• Direct interaction with traders, software vendors, and IT departments in Vattenfall
• Provide technical support and resolve problems for our trading business
• Enable trade execution for traders and automate trading processes in close collaboration with the application vendor
• Monitor, analyze, and fix the Front Office IT system landscape
• Continuous improvements on our landscape and way of working are strong drivers of our daily work
• Contribute actively to the SCRUM events of the agile & DevOps team and adhere to the established SCRUM framework

Qualifications

Your Profile as Senior ETRM Market Access Software Specialist / 2nd Level Support

If you are eager to learn and curious to enter into a new career, you will be in the right spot. The ETRM MA Team welcomes career changers, e.g., coming from a banking or finance background.

• University degree in Business and Information Technology, Engineering, or another related field
• Significant working experience with overall IT support and operations
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with Front Office support in any type of trading environment
• Experience with marketplace connectivity, complex IT network architecture, and low latency communication is required, including the systems being supported: E*Star Energy Trading Solution, Trading Technologies, and Trayport
• Experience with supporting news & data provider infrastructure from LSEG (formerly Reuters/Refinitiv) and Bloomberg is required
• Prior experience working with Splunk, Grafana, Kafka, Jenkins is required
• Experience with IT networks and application hosting (with a focus on cloud technology)
• Hands-on application support experience following ITIL principles
• High degree of commitment
• Willingness to stretch over the full service chain (from 1st level support up to supplier coordination)
• Team-oriented and excellent communicator
• Fluent in English, written and spoken
• German or Swedish would be beneficial

Additional Information

We welcome your application in English, no later than April 3rd, 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Carina Böhle via phone at +49 40 79022 1623.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.