S P A Enterprise Services - ETRM Architect

Experience Level : 10+ years.

Domain : Energy Trading Power, Gas, Oil.

Industry : Commodity Trading, Utilities, Energy.

Location : Currently in Europe/UK.

Role Overview :

We are seeking an experienced ETRM Architect with strong data management and analytics experience to lead the design and development of data-intensive solutions in a trading environment.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on knowledge of virtual data consolidation, curve building, valuation integration, and analytics around commodity products.

Experience in European Power & Gas markets is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities :

- Architect and implement virtual data consolidation frameworks across diverse data sources.

- Design and support systems for valuation of commodity products, integrating internal and external data feeds (e.g., ICE, Platts, EEX).

- Lead the development of intraday forward curves for power, gas, and oil products.

- Build and support volatility surfaces and volatility smiles for options and other complex instruments.

- Provide architectural oversight for ETL pipelines ensuring scalable and real-time data ingestion and processing.

- Collaborate with quants, traders, and risk teams to ensure data readiness for modeling and decision-making.

- Define data governance models, metadata, and lineage tracking in alignment with enterprise architecture.

- Support reporting, analytics, and dashboarding by enabling clean and consolidated datasets.

Required Skills :

- Strong architectural experience in ETRM platforms.

- Strong ETL skills (preferably Python, SQL, Spark, Informatica, etc.)

- Domain understanding of European Power & Gas markets or Oil products.

- Experience building Intraday Curves and Volatility Surfaces/Smiles.

- Experience in virtual consolidation of trading and market data sources.

- Integration experience with pricing/valuation systems.

- Strong understanding of data modeling for risk, PnL, forecasting.

- Familiarity with Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar cloud/data platforms.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Prior experience as ETRM Architect or Senior ETRM Developer with architecture responsibilities.

- Hands-on experience with time-series data for real-time or batch analytics.

- Knowledge of regulatory compliance reporting in energy trading (e.g., REMIT, EMIR).

Education :

- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.