Data Engineering Intern – Weather Trading

at  Statkraft

Company Description
Are you looking to make an impact to climate change mitigation using data? As a Data Engineering Intern, you could help solve the climate crisis with Statkraft, the largest producers of renewable energy in Europe. This is your chance to realise the potential of renewable energy and make a positive impact on our planet.

WHY STATKRAFT?

Statkraft has been making clean energy possible for over a century. That’s what we offer. 125 years of unrivalled expertise in supplying the world with what it needs most. We envision a world that runs entirely on renewable energy. Because in the fight against climate change, we don’t see renewable energy as part of the solution – we believe it must be the solution and we need your help in doing that. With us, you’ll shape and build a career that is truly forward-facing with many amazing opportunities and offerings to match.
Job Description
Working in Weather Trading
Statkraft trades energy products in more than 20 countries and is active on 13 energy exchanges. Proprietary trading takes place mainly from trading rooms in Oslo, Düsseldorf, London and the Unites States.
Collaboration is a key part of the culture in Trading and employees work closely with other teams within the company. Working in Proprietary trading at Statkraft offers opportunity to be part of a dynamic and growing company that is at the forefront of the energy transition, while gaining valuable experience in the fast-paced and exciting world of energy trading.
Statkraft’s Weather Trading team builds and executes a portfolio of quantitative trading strategies based on meteorological and power market models. To achieve this, highly qualified meteorologists, strategists, and data scientists collaborate in order to generate unique insights. The team heavily relies on weather and power market data.

As a Data Engineering Intern in Weather Trading you’ll:

• Learn about the commodities markets and trading
• Get insight into state-of-the art weather predictions and weather data
• Collaborate with data scientist to understand data needs and provide necessary data support
• Setup processes to extract and load more data into our database
• Work on optimizing existing data pipelines for better performance and reliability
• Manage and monitor our automated data ingestion pipelines and troubleshoot issues
• Analyse and produce models from our data to aid in trading decisions
• Extend and continue to build out our team’s analysis dashboards

Qualifications

About you:

• Young graduate or university student enrolled in Computing, Maths, Physics, Electrical Engineering or similar degree
• You have a strong passion for working with data and providing good data quality
• Strong programming skills, preferably Python
• Experience with SQL databases
• Quick learner with good analytical thinking skills
• Interest in learning about trading, weather, financial markets and working with the data used in these domains
• Experience with data pipelines for machine learning and machine learning techniques is an asset
• Excellent team player with high reliability, get-it-done mindset
• Fluency in English

Start and end dates are negotiable, but a start date as soon as possible is preferred.
Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details