Quant Short-Term Trading

Details

As a Quant in the Flex Optimization team at Eneco Trading, you will develop data-driven solutions that maximize the value of Eneco’s steerable asset portfolio by optimizing flexibility across short-term power and ancillary markets. You will build optimization strategies, bidding algorithms, and machine learning models for fast-moving, real-time energy markets, including real-time trading applications for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). You will work closely with quants and traders, with a strong focus on ownership, scalable automation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data-driven applications for cross-market optimization, bidding, and decision-making.
• Apply mathematical optimization, machine learning, heuristics, and other quantitative methods.
• Drive automation and scalability by identifying manual processes that can be streamlined and operationalized.
• Identify new ways to add value with analytics in close collaboration with traders.
• Work with large and growing datasets to improve forecasting, modelling, and decision-support tooling.
• Productionize applications and algorithms in a robust and reliable manner.

Requirements

• A quantitative MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in a quantitative role within a business context; experience in energy trading is an advantage.
• Strong quantitative problem-solving skills and experience developing algorithms or analytical models.
• Experience with non-linear or linear optimization is an advantage.
• Strong Python development skills, including writing clean and modular code, implementing unit tests, and establishing proper monitoring.
• Experience building and deploying scalable cloud applications or algorithms, including work with streaming data.
• Experience with Azure Cloud, Databricks, Kubernetes, Airflow, Snowflake, or Kafka is an advantage.
• Ability to understand business problems and translate them into robust, data-driven solutions.
• A proactive attitude, ownership, and the drive to implement improvements.

Benefits

• Gross annual salary of €80,000–€107,000, including FlexBudget and an 8% holiday allowance.
• Depending on the role, a bonus or collective profit sharing.
• Personal and professional development support.
• Hybrid working: 40% in the office, 40% from home, and 20% flexibly.
• With manager approval, the option to work abroad within approved countries for up to 3 weeks per year, with a maximum of 2 consecutive weeks.
• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home where applicable.

The role is part of the Flex Optimization team within Trading & Structuring, located near Rotterdam-Alexander station.