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Where you fit in
The Power Quantitative Analyst role sits within the Algorithmic Trading Capability (ATC) team which is part of the larger Commercial Asset Optimisation group within Shell Energy Europe & Africa (SE-EA.)
The Power Quantitative Analyst will support activities related to the commercial optimisation of SE-EA’s portfolio of power generation and storage assets in UK Wholesale, Balancing Market (BM) and Ancillary Services markets. The Power Quantitative Analyst will also contribute to the development of automated/systematic trading capabilities for flexible assets, renewables imbalance risk optimisation, and proprietary trading in the short-term power markets.
The SE-EA power portfolio is an industry leading mix of remotely-operated distributed generation assets, flexible renewable generation and algorithmically-controlled storage assets. The UK Short Term Power Analytics and Trading teams were the first team to ever control aggregated generation units in the UK Balancing Market and the first to ever control storage assets via the use of algorithms. The UK Short Term Power Analytics and Trading teams continue to be the market leader in terms of automated trading and asset optimisation.
The Power Quantitative Analyst will assist the team in building and monitoring its own bespoke trading and optimisation strategies and infrastructure across Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), renewables, thermal and spec scenarios. A range of modelling approaches are used including linear programming, deep and reinforcement learning.
What’s the role?
You will be accountable for the following:
What we need from you
We are keen to hear from candidates with exposure to Deep and Reinforcement learning alongside more conventional modelling approaches. Prior experience/knowledge trading and operating assets in Wholesale and Ancillary Service markets is beneficial.
We would also like to see the following:
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Flexible working
We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).
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