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Location

Stroud, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Title: Energy Senior Analyst

Job Type: Permanent

Work Type: Full Time

Industry: Utilities

Job Location: Gloucestershire

Rate: DOE

Job Role

Working under the Technical Delivery Manager, this role will play a lead part in helping maximise the profitability of specific managed assets, through oversight and development of the algorithms deployed within our automated trading platform. This in house developed platform controls action on those assets, according to their individual flexibility potential and the revenue opportunities presented across multiple markets for flexibility and trading.

Specifically, the role will necessitate a thorough understanding of the dynamics of both short-term energy trading markets and alternative revenue streams available through grid services, for example Frequency Response, or Balancing Reserve. Hence recognising how and where these streams can be combined to target an optimal portfolio of trades that is tailored to each of the SG managed assets and implementing pricing and auction bidding strategies in order to successfully acquire the desired target portfolio at minimum cost.

Working alongside the senior data scientist and other team members, the post holder will need to be sufficiently confident to direct material improvements to the environment as well as providinginput into the platform future development – especially with regards to managing evolving profitability trends and the potential from future trading market growth.

The role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has proven quantitative skills and financial experience to work on developing the clients state of the art VPP, where our USP is having a best-in class optimisation model.

You need to be a self-starter who embraces responsibility and working independently at times, although very much part of a collaborative team, and will be comfortable providing thoughts and opinions on the development strategy and direction of the platform.

Duties

• Senior role in helping develop a ‘best in class’ optimisation model for controllable flexible assets (Batteries, Solar, Wind, etc) against available income streams;
• Work with Data Analysis team on developing state of the art auction theory to bid assets into the day ahead various markets, mindful of stacking constraints caused by mutually exclusive revenue streams.
• Help develop, update, and maintain the integration of the optimisation models into the clients wider decision-making environment.
• Have an innate curiosity, a tendency to be discerning and a natural interest in the space.
• Are comfortable communicating (verbal and written) to different audiences (e.g. technical and non-technical)
• Ability to manage and understand trading positions
• Ability to provide actionable insight from complex data
• Strong analytical, theoretical and numeric skills
• Experience in the Energy Industry.
• Python user or similar
• Degree in a numerate subject, or a proven track record of quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities, ideally in a commercial setting

Desirable additional skills and experience

• Experience programming and developing optimisation techniques
• Experience of modelling distributed energy resources such as energy storage
• Experience using SQL is advantageous
• Experience using AWS or other cloud services
• Strong initiative and the ability to take the lead on projects.
• Experience using REST APIs to read and post data.
• Ability to mentor/coach more junior team members

To make an application for this role please submit your CV to [email protected] or for more information call 01453 829754.

For details of other opportunities available within your chose field please visit our website

Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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