Data Engineer - Curve Trading

Job Description

Are you highly skilled in SQL and Python with a strong commercial mindset? If so, come and join EDF as a Data Engineer!

The Opportunity

The Portfolio Operations team sits at the heart of EDF, balancing energy supply with customer demand through accurate forecasting, strategic hedging, and active trading. They manage financial risk, optimise market opportunities, and support large business customers in real time—ensuring EDF stays agile and well-positioned in a fast-moving energy market.

As the Data Engineer in the Curve Trading Performance & Insight team, you’ll develop pipelines and data models that enables EDF to monitor and improve the performance of its trading operations.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary of circa £56,000 (depending on experience) and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll develop and maintain a suite of high-quality pipelines and tools required by the Curve Trading Performance & Insight team to report on the commercial performance of the department.

Working collaboratively with commercial analysts and key stakeholders, you will shape data solutions that drive performance and unlock new analytical capabilities. You will ensure all solutions follow best practice in code quality, version control and documentation.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll support the adoption of new technologies, including data science techniques and cloud platforms to improve efficiency and insight.

Who you are

We’re looking for a technically strong data engineer who enjoys solving problems, building clean data structures and working in a collaborative, commercially focused environment.

You will have experience working with Snowflake and Matillion, leveraging these tools to design, build and optimise data pipelines and workflows.

Beyond the technical ability, we’re looking for somebody who can think commercially, understanding the broader business impact of data solutions and delivering insights that drive value. Excellent collaboration skills are essential, as this role involves working closely with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams across the business.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment and you’re passionate about utilising data technologies to deliver innovative solutions that drive business growth, we’d love to hear from you!

At the heart of everything we do is our Cultural DNA:

We Are Open – The best ideas can come from anywhere. We share knowledge, embrace new thinking, and keep the conversation going to spark innovation and drive progress.

We Own It – We take responsibility, make informed decisions, and follow through. Whether we’re celebrating success or learning from challenges, we step up and make things happen.

We Make It Better – We’re always looking for ways to improve. If there’s a smarter, more efficient way to do something, we go for it, pushing for excellence in everything we do.

Closing date for applications: 2nd May 2025

Location: London/Flexible – travel to the London office on a weekly basis

Additional Information

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