Python Data Engineer

Company Description

Vitol is a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum: from oil through to power, renewables and carbon.  From 40 offices worldwide, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $2.5 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and motivated Python Data Engineer to help us expand our data assets in support of our analytical capabilities in a full-time role. This role will have the opportunity to interface directly with our traders, analysts, researchers and data scientists to drive out requirements and deliver a wide range of data related needs.

What you will do:

• Write modular, reusable components to liaise between external sources of data, internal tools and databases
• Work with our business sponsors to drive out requirements for data ingestion and access
• Translate business requirements into technical deliveries
• Maintain the cleanliness and centrality of the Vitol Python codebase, while adhering to existing designs and coding conventions as much as possible
• Contribute to our developer tools and Python ETL toolkit, including standardization and consolidation of core functionality
• Efficiently coordinate with the rest of our global team
• Participate in Vitol’s Python development community and act as a liaison for our growing business development efforts

Qualifications

• 6+ years of enterprise-level coding experience with Python
• Computer Science, MIS or related degree
• Experience with Data Engineering and building data pipelines
• Experience scraping websites with Requests, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, etc.
• Oracle / PL SQL development experience including stored procedures
• Strong understating of object-oriented design, design patterns, SOA architectures
• Past experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Proficient understanding of peer-reviewing, code versioning, and bug/issue tracking tools.
• Familiarity with Pandas and NumPy packages
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Commodities/Energy Industry experience desired
• Familiarity with containerization solutions like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

Additional Information

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional office environment.  Because of the collaborative, fast-paced, and high energy nature of our business, Vitol requires team members to work from our fully-equipped office.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.