Where you fit in
An exciting opportunity to work on the Systematic Trading Desk within Shell Trading. The successful applicant will be focusing on developing a funnel of algorithmic trading strategies, expose these to rigorous back testing and deploy them into live trading environment taking advantage of the existing infrastructure. It will be expected that you can propose strategies backed by experience, including experience as a front-line trader, possibly from different asset classes (e.g. financial markets, other commodities, as opposed to Energy).
What’s the role?
The Systematic Trading desk itself, part of Shell Energy Europe & Africa’s (SE-EA) Europe, seeks to leverage improvements in technology, programming frameworks and quantitative analysis to develop profitable algorithmic trading strategies across a variety of tenors and commodities within the wider Global Shell trading Remit.
Key Accountabilities:
Develop, implement, and manage short/medium term quantitative trading strategies.
P&L accountability for the proprietary strategies.
Demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks being taken
Executing trades within mandated authorities.
Observe and strictly comply with all regulatory guidelines.
Coach & educate colleagues, including those on other teams.
What we need from you
Essential Skills & Requirements:
This posting target experienced trading professionals. You are likely to be a strong contender if you have hands on experience in risk taking
Ability to formulate systematic ideas and prove alpha generation via structured and established back testing methods
Experienced programmer, ideally in Python and possibly C#
Desirable Skills & Requirements:
Market knowledge in European energy or Crude or the wider commodity markets.
Previous experience using C#, JavaScript, Blazor for Front End Development is desirable.
Experience in cross commodity trading is desirable.
Experience in commodities market outside Europe and Oil markets is desirable.
Previous experience in working with in an established systematic team is desirable.
Personal Attributes
High degree of pragmatism and the desire to deliver business value whilst maintaining high standards of work
Resilience under pressure and a proactive attitude to overcome hurdles
Team player with the ability to collaborate across different teams
Uses best practice development techniques but open to change of approach according to conflicting timelines/risks involved
Used to working in a flexible, independent manner on a mixture of small unstructured and large structured items
ABOUT SHELL ENERGY EUROPE & AFRICA (SE-EA)
SE-EA is part of the Shell Trading & Supply organization with a focus on European gas and power markets. As such, SE-EA trades natural gas, power, green power certificates, voluntary/compliance driven environmental products with counterparties including major resource holders of gas, upstream producers, investment banks, trading houses, utilities, power generators, large as well as up-and coming retail gas and power marketing companies, regional and local gas and power distribution companies, gas storage operators, and large industrial and commercial gas and power users.
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