Technical Analyst - Power Markets

Our client is a UK-based energy analytics and consulting firm focused on helping organisations understand and manage value, risk, and revenues across energy markets and flexible assets. The business works across European power markets and provides sophisticated analytical and modelling capabilities to support decision-making in the rapidly evolving energy sector.

We’re looking for a technically strong Power Technical Analyst to join the Technical Analytics team and play a key role in maintaining and developing the production analytics platform that underpins power market and flexible asset models.

This is an opportunity to combine professional Python development with quantitative modelling, optimisation, and energy market expertise. The successful candidate will work on sophisticated power market models and asset-level optimisation, contributing to the development of analytical capabilities across European energy markets.

Responsibilities

Platform Development & Maintenance

• Maintain, test, and develop the production Python codebase underpinning power market and flexible asset models
• Keep the platform reliable and up to date through structured maintenance, development, testing, and deployment practices
• Continuously monitor and optimise model performance, improving accuracy, runtime, and robustness as market conditions and data evolve
• Maintain and incrementally improve existing codebases, ensuring they remain reliable, scalable, and maintainable

Power Market Modelling & Optimisation

• Build and extend stochastic and fundamental power market models
• Develop and enhance asset-level optimisation modules for BESS, thermal, hydro, and other flexible assets
• Apply and extend optimisation techniques including LP, MILP, and QP for flexible asset dispatch and value-stacking
• Support optimisation across wholesale, balancing, and ancillary markets
• Apply stochastic and statistical modelling techniques to complex power market and flexible asset challenges

AI-Assisted Development

• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of the regular development and testing workflow
• Apply modern AI coding approaches, including agentic coding tools, AI harnesses, skills/plugins, and agentic development workflows
• Use these technologies to support faster iteration, more effective testing, and higher code quality

Collaboration & Technical Delivery

• Work closely with the Director of Analytics and wider analyst team to translate market and commercial requirements into well-tested, maintainable code
• Work across the technical stack, from data pipelines through to model logic and output delivery
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of analytical tools, development processes, and technical capabilities

About you

Core Skills & Experience

• Strong professional Python development experience, including genuine production code practice
• Experience with version control, testing, code review, packaging, and deployment
• A proven track record of maintaining and incrementally improving existing codebases, rather than solely developing new features from scratch
• Solid understanding of European power markets, including price formation, market design, and supply-demand fundamentals
• Working knowledge of optimisation methods and solvers such as LP, MILP, and QP, with experience using tools such as CPLEX, HiGHS, or Gurobi
• Familiarity with stochastic or statistical modelling techniques

Technical & Analytical Expertise

• Direct experience with flexible asset optimisation, particularly BESS, thermal, hydro, or similar assets, is highly desirable
• Experience developing quantitative trading strategies would also be valuable
• Comfortable working across the stack, from data pipelines through to model logic and output delivery
• Strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills
• A relevant degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or another related quantitative discipline

Modern Development Mindset

• Practical familiarity with modern AI coding tools and concepts
• Comfortable integrating AI-assisted development approaches into a professional software development process
• Curious about emerging technologies and motivated to identify ways to improve development efficiency and code quality
• Prior experience in a consulting or commodities trading environment would be advantageous

Why Join?

You’ll be part of a technically sophisticated and collaborative environment where your work directly contributes to the development of advanced power market and flexible asset analytics.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of software development, quantitative modelling, optimisation, and European power markets, while gaining exposure to some of the most important challenges emerging from the energy transition.

About Us

Climate17 is a purpose-led, international Renewable Energy & Sustainability recruitment firm. We provide specialist talent acquisition services to organisations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint, as well as those working towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector.

Inclusive Application Process

Climate17 is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We believe there is no solution to climate change without people. We aim to increase diversity across all areas and as such, we are committed to partnering with clients and candidates to create an inclusive and sustainable regenerative world.