Quantitative Developer
About the position
About us Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company! Summary An opportunity for a Quantitative Developer, is now available in one of our main trading hubs. Working in a close partnership with the heads of Quantitative Development and Analytics, you will be a part of designing and building a new platform for deal structuring and risk management within a challenging and highly dynamic commercial environment.
Responsibilities
• Provide technical leadership: demonstrate the ability to own projects from inception to completion
• Build efficient, resilient and innovative solutions using modern data analytics technologies that enable analysts, advise decision making and drive revenue generation.
• Partner with end-users from Quantitative Analytics, Trading and Structuring to help them use our platform for their analyses
• Make significant contributions to the shared platform for use by analysts globally.
• Work with the architecture and infrastructure teams in IT to ensure that designs are aligned with the company technology strategy.
• Provide input to IT and play a key interfacing role between them and the analyst community.
• Rigorously adhere to software development best practice for enterprise-grade applications.
Requirements
• Undergraduate degree in computer science, or equivalent quantitative discipline with a heavy computer science requirement. Post-graduate study is desirable but not essential
• Deep practical experience and knowledge of:
• Expert level python programming skills, particularly in-depth knowledge of the python object model
• Ability to write production ready, highly reliable, tuned (pythonic) numerical code
• Expert level familiarity with standard Python packages, such as Pydantic, FastAPI
• Experience in exposing C++ to python
• Experience of using vendor cloud computing platforms, especially AWS and Azure
• A strong background in modern SDLC techniques, ideally having used Azure Devops
• Practical experience building web applications and web services.
• Software development industry best practice, including unit, integration and regression testing.
• Build and deployment patterns
• Use of different types of databases for storing versioned object schemas and storing/retrieving time series data
• Strong analytical, reasoning and mathematical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and networking skills, personal gravitas and competence build a rapport with a team of analysts across disciplines, geographies and commodity-lines.
• Proven track record of solving hard problems through the innovative application of technology in compressed timeframes.
• Demonstrable ability to align commercial and functional stakeholders.
Nice-to-haves
• Industry experience of building trading and risk management systems at a bank, hedge fund, energy major or vendor who supplies solutions to these companies
• Knowledge of Javascript libraries and Experience with React.js
• Practical experience of the Big Data stack, including hdfs, spark, scala, kudu, hbase, SQL, impala, as well as RDBMs.
• Quantitative skills, for example knowledge of statistics, probability theory, optimization or derivative pricing.
• Some C++ development experience
Benefits
• At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
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About us Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company! Summary An opportunity for a Quantitative Developer, is now available in one of our main trading hubs. Working in a close partnership with the heads of Quantitative Development and Analytics, you will be a part of designing and building a new platform for deal structuring and risk management within a challenging and highly dynamic commercial environment.
Responsibilities
• Provide technical leadership: demonstrate the ability to own projects from inception to completion
• Build efficient, resilient and innovative solutions using modern data analytics technologies that enable analysts, advise decision making and drive revenue generation.
• Partner with end-users from Quantitative Analytics, Trading and Structuring to help them use our platform for their analyses
• Make significant contributions to the shared platform for use by analysts globally.
• Work with the architecture and infrastructure teams in IT to ensure that designs are aligned with the company technology strategy.
• Provide input to IT and play a key interfacing role between them and the analyst community.
• Rigorously adhere to software development best practice for enterprise-grade applications.
Requirements
• Undergraduate degree in computer science, or equivalent quantitative discipline with a heavy computer science requirement. Post-graduate study is desirable but not essential
• Deep practical experience and knowledge of:
• Expert level python programming skills, particularly in-depth knowledge of the python object model
• Ability to write production ready, highly reliable, tuned (pythonic) numerical code
• Expert level familiarity with standard Python packages, such as Pydantic, FastAPI
• Experience in exposing C++ to python
• Experience of using vendor cloud computing platforms, especially AWS and Azure
• A strong background in modern SDLC techniques, ideally having used Azure Devops
• Practical experience building web applications and web services.
• Software development industry best practice, including unit, integration and regression testing.
• Build and deployment patterns
• Use of different types of databases for storing versioned object schemas and storing/retrieving time series data
• Strong analytical, reasoning and mathematical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and networking skills, personal gravitas and competence build a rapport with a team of analysts across disciplines, geographies and commodity-lines.
• Proven track record of solving hard problems through the innovative application of technology in compressed timeframes.
• Demonstrable ability to align commercial and functional stakeholders.
Nice-to-haves
• Industry experience of building trading and risk management systems at a bank, hedge fund, energy major or vendor who supplies solutions to these companies
• Knowledge of Javascript libraries and Experience with React.js
• Practical experience of the Big Data stack, including hdfs, spark, scala, kudu, hbase, SQL, impala, as well as RDBMs.
• Quantitative skills, for example knowledge of statistics, probability theory, optimization or derivative pricing.
• Some C++ development experience
Benefits
• At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
Apply Now
Apply Now