Senior Enterprise Technology Engineer

Role overview

Key accountabilities

• Develop, support, and improve EUC applications and processes for the oil trading front office.
• Work directly with traders, analysts, and middle office on projects ranging from one day to over a month, adapting to priority changes and parallel work.
• Improve manual front-office workflows and data sharing; explore EUC technologies and share learning.
• Provide Microsoft Office expertise and advice and enhance user-developed spreadsheets.
• Build controlled real-time, multi-user trader pricing tools and complex trade exposure analysis tools.
• Develop and support Excel customizations using C# VSTO and Excel DNA.
• Implement and teach best practices.

Essential education

• Degree or HND-level qualification in computer science or a related subject.

Essential experience and skills

• Extensive Excel 365 expertise, including expert VBA and formulas, dynamic arrays, and LAMBDA.
• SQL Server knowledge, including database design and stored procedures.
• Strong Copilot or Claude prompting knowledge and enthusiasm for AI-assisted development.
• At least two years' object-oriented development experience in a language such as C#, Java, or Python.
• Advanced Excel data analysis and at least five years' Power BI or Power Query experience, including M query writing and optimization.
• Front-office trader experience in commodity or financial trading; experience connecting to APIs and consuming data services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to reverse-engineer and optimize spreadsheet logic, recover workbooks, and manage concurrent work.

Desirable experience

• Real-time Excel data experience and market data providers such as Reuters, Bloomberg, TT, or ICE.
• Experience with VSTO, Excel DNA, JavaScript or other Excel add-in technologies, MS Access, WPF, or Azure DevOps.
• Python or Jupyter Notebooks experience is desirable.
• Financial knowledge of futures, swaps, or pricing is noted.

Work arrangement

• Hybrid office and remote working.
• Up to 10% travel is expected.
• Relocation assistance is not available.

Benefits

• Benefits may include flexible working, paid parental leave, and retirement benefits.