Quantitative Researcher I Trader

Vattenfall is one of Europe’s leading energy companies with trading activities in the global energy markets. We are strongly expanding into algorithmic trading and automated trade execution. We are looking for a strong

Quantitative Researcher I Trader

at the Algorithmic Trading team in our office in Hamburg.

The Algorithmic Trading team takes the leading role in algorithmic trading and automated trade execution across the Business Unit Trading with overall P&L responsibility for the algorithmic trading activities from the intra-day to term horizon. The team operates within the Trading Analysis & Algorithms department and works closely with the different trading desks and the software developers and data engineers in the Algo Infrastructure team.

Your main tasks and responsibilities as a Quantitative Researcher I Trader:

• Develop, backtest, implement, and continuously improve algorithmic trading strategies for energy commodity markets with a clear focus on proprietary strategies
• Generate algorithmic trading ideas by utilizing state-of-the-art statistical and other advanced analytical methods on large data sets of financial and/or fundamental data
• Partner also with trading desks, trading analysts and/or trading meteorologists to leverage their market and fundamental insights for related algorithmic trading ideas
• Keep track of the latest market developments and quantitative research around algorithmic trading and provide related advice
• Adhere to and further develop the company’s algorithmic trading standards and best practices, incl. documentation, testing, and peer review.