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 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

Our people are our business. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65 nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force. Learn more about us here.

Job Description

We have developed our own Commodity Trading Risk Management (CTRM) system that covers all aspects of our business activities across the globe: from trade entry through middle-office with P&L reporting and price risk management down to invoicing and for whichever commodity we are trading: electricity, renewables, gas, crude oil, refined products, biofuels, or carbon certificates. Vitol is unique in the energy trading world in making our CTRM the core of our business processes that everyone at Vitol works with, often on a daily basis. We are looking for a technical architect with strong development experience and a keen interest in development to join our team.

The team you will join is responsible for:

• Designing and maintaining the CTRM architecture, including the Oracle Forms framework, reporting architecture, web services, and job scheduler.
• Monitoring and improving development quality through unit test, Jenkins automation, SonarQube, and adherence to development guidelines.
• Training development teams on topics such as Oracle Forms, effective use of CTRM features, and development best practices.
• Defining and updating development standards to ensure consistency and quality.
• Contributing to or coordinating cross-functional projects.
• Developing and deploying CTRM solutions.

You will also work closely with developers on technical architecture, design, and development tasks, including Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, and SQL.

Qualifications

• Oracle Forms application development - minimum 5 years of experience
• Strong Oracle database knowledge (release from 18c)
• Proven data modelling skills to translate business situations into data structures, proficiency in SQL
• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field
• At least 5 years’ experience in similar position(s), e.g. as a user-facing DB engineer
• Entrepreneurial drive, ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Proactive and user-focused "make it work” mentality with a genuine interest in the functional as well as technical aspects of each challenge encountered and comfortable with daily release cycle model
• Willingness to help and collaborate across teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Full proficiency communicating in English in a business context (verbally & in writing)