Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) System Specialist

Would you like to bring more sustainable tomorrow into our society during your daily work? 

Technology cannot tackle the climate change. People who know technology can. Join us in building together a new IT landscape for our exiting Energy Trading world and become part Vattenfall’s mission to enable fossil free living within one generation.

Our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position as

(ETRM) System Specialist

for our office in Hamburg and Amsterdam.

As an ETRM System Specialist, you will work at the heart of our Energy Trading Landscape, engaging with numerous interfaces and stakeholders. You will be tasked with solving complex and unique problems, each presenting a new challenge. You and your team colleagues are analyzing and developing software solutions using modern technologies and methodologies to contribute to high quality in a dynamic operational ETRM landscape while staying compliant with our software architectural and security guidelines.

Your key responsibilities:

• Administration, technical maintenance and customization of the trading application Openlink Endur
• Writing and maintaining Java based Openlink Endur JVS API Plugins using the Eclipse IDE
• Coordination around the trading system with business and projects
• Following processes in handling business and audit requirements
• Ensuring business continuity
• Assuring quality of delivery 

We are mainly looking for someone with strong skills in energy or commodity trading / ETRM domain and related programming experience, but we also welcome candidates from other backgrounds. We’re ready to invest in your growth and offer a long-term role in a great team.

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition.

Qualifications

As a successful (ETRM) System Specialist your work is defined by initiative and taking a proactive approach. You are performance-driven with a team-oriented working style. Besides that, you convince with the following skills and competencies:

• A graduate degree such as Bachelor in Information Technology / Management, Engineering, Business Administration or other related fields or similar qualification. Your ability to solve complex tasks, your attention to detail and your collaboration skills are more important than your exact background
• Good programming skills in Java, C, Python or similar
• Deep knowledge and experience with complex soft- and hardware solutions
• Team oriented, performance driven, high energy
• 3-5 years of overall IT software and IT operations experience

Advantageous but not a must:

• Experience with Energy Trading Applications, e.g. OpenLink Endur (JVS) or other ETRM solutions
• SQL experience with Oracle, MS SQL or similar relational DB systems
• Experience in agile work methodologies

We welcome your application in English, no later than 18th of July 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Carina Böhle via phone at +49 40 79022 1623. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

We look forward to receiving your application!