Jobs at Vitol

Develop and expand Vitol’s Python and agentic development tools, support the developer community, maintain shared Python packages, and advise teams on technical challenges. Responsibilities include application support, training, onboarding, stakeholder collaboration, and improving systems with Helpdesk, Infrastructure, and Security teams. The role also supports migration from Miniconda to Astral uv and promotes software development standards.

Develop and support global analytics applications using .NET and React. Build AI-enabled solutions with LLMs and machine learning, design distributed systems and microservices, collaborate with business stakeholders, and own projects from design through deployment and support. Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and delivery of resilient, maintainable systems used across the organization.

Develop and maintain Vitol’s in-house commodity trading risk management systems covering PnL, risk, valuation, reporting, and finance. The role combines software engineering and business analysis, requiring direct engagement with trading, finance, and senior stakeholders to gather requirements, model data, design solutions, test, deploy, train users, and provide ongoing support. Responsibilities include building scalable reporting architecture, valuation engines, finance functionality, and systems integrations. Occasional travel to international offices may be required.

Analyzes charterparty and sale contracts, shipping documents, and demurrage claims. Computes claims, reviews claims received, negotiates settlements, liaises with internal teams and external counterparties, reports outstanding positions, and monitors relevant industry developments and legal case law.

Maintain and improve internal trading technology applications, deployment tools, developer environments, reporting systems, messaging tools, batch services, and CI/CD quality tooling. The role involves automating workflows, improving reliability and developer productivity, supporting releases, integrating AI-enabled development tools, and collaborating across engineering and support teams.

The Governance and Risk Officer maintains cybersecurity governance, compliance, and risk management across Vitol and its affiliates. Responsibilities include developing and monitoring security policies, conducting risk assessments and audits, maintaining information asset inventories and control catalogs, overseeing third-party suppliers, and reporting on risk mitigation. The role also supports regulatory compliance, affiliate oversight, and security culture initiatives, with travel to affiliate locations and occasional duties outside normal business hours.

Leads a distributed global SOC, overseeing analysts, operating procedures, outsourced SOC performance, detection engineering, threat intelligence, and L2/L3 incident response. Develops playbooks, conducts investigations and post-incident reviews, partners with red and purple teams, improves MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and mentors cybersecurity staff. Coordinates with IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders while reporting security metrics and risk trends to senior leadership.

Build and deploy LLM-based automation solutions for trading, operations, and support teams. Design agentic workflows, prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs; collaborate with business users; translate needs into technical solutions; and deliver production-ready AI systems. The role requires Python development, LLM experience, stakeholder engagement, documentation, autonomy, and continuous learning in commodities and quantitative finance.

Supports energy and commodities trading desks by maintaining position summaries, monitoring trade exposures, reviewing futures near expiry, and assisting with hedging decisions. Analyzes and explains daily P&L movements, prepares management reports, provides decision support, performs market and trading analysis, and supports process improvements and internal projects. Requires strong numerical, financial market, trade lifecycle, data analysis, and communication skills.

Accounting intern supporting daily accounting operations, accounts payable, bank and supplier reconciliations, journal entries, month-end and year-end closing, record maintenance, management reporting, financial analysis, and annual budgeting. The role provides practical exposure to general accounting activities while working with experienced team members.

Provide first- and second-level support for end-user hardware, software, telephony, printers, and trading applications. Set up workstations and accounts for new users, manage devices, deploy applications through SCCM and Intune, coordinate third-party support, document procedures, create helpdesk automation, and perform desk moves. Support AMER users and global teams, including after-hours and on-call coverage.

Build and operate production data pipelines and warehouse models for a global energy trading platform. Develop Python pipelines orchestrated with Prefect, create tested Snowflake models with dbt, migrate legacy Oracle systems, integrate diverse data technologies, and implement quality, freshness, monitoring, and alerting controls. The role also supports AI-ready data, AWS services, platform documentation, and direct collaboration with analysts and desk users.

Build and deploy LLM-based automation solutions for energy and commodities trading workflows. Responsibilities include designing agentic AI workflows, developing prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs, gathering requirements from business stakeholders, and delivering production-ready solutions. The role requires hands-on Python engineering, collaboration with non-technical users, documentation, and autonomous ownership of AI projects.

Lead the creation and governance of Vitol’s enterprise architecture function. Define target-state technology blueprints, architecture standards, integration and data designs, cloud strategy, and build-versus-buy decisions. Govern technology choices, technical debt, application inventories, and demand management while supporting data, AI, cloud, and modernization initiatives. Partner with technology, trading, cybersecurity, and infrastructure leaders, and build a future enterprise architecture team.

Administers commodity transaction contracts for crude, natural gas, power, and fuel oil. Drafts and dispatches confirmations, reviews broker and counterparty documentation, verifies trade economics, incorporates master agreement terms, and escalates discrepancies and delays. Coordinates with Legal, Credit, Operations, and Front Office teams to mitigate contractual, operational, economic, and regulatory risk. Maintains records, updates procedures, supports system testing, responds to queries, and identifies process improvements.

Supports refinery process design, risk assessment, troubleshooting, optimization, and operational reliability. Performs material and energy balances, economic and blending analyses, simulation, equipment evaluations, debottlenecking studies, and feasibility assessments. Develops procedures, manages process safety reviews and Management-of-Change activities, leads plant startup safety reviews, monitors corrosion and performance, ensures product quality and regulatory compliance, and supports integrated refinery and terminal operations.

Supports APAC tax operations with emphasis on indirect tax compliance, tax technology integration, process optimization, risk management, and automation. Assists with GST, VAT, corporate income tax, withholding tax, transfer pricing, tax provisions, tax authority responses, BEPS Pillar Two, and compliance programs. Collaborates with IT, business stakeholders, external tax agents, and consultants while documenting processes, implementing controls, and training internal users.

Hands-on System Administrator responsible for administering on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online, planning and executing mailbox migrations, managing Microsoft 365 messaging and Entra ID, maintaining Windows Server/AD infrastructure, supporting IAM and SSO integrations, ensuring security/compliance, providing escalated operational support, and automating tasks with PowerShell.

Embed with commercial teams to identify high-value AI opportunities; translate business problems into technical requirements and delivery plans; design, build, and deploy agentic GenAI solutions and platform extensions (connectors, tool-calling, MCP servers). Apply LLMs, RAG, NLP, time-series forecasting, and optimization to pricing, trade flows, and operational problems. Own prototype-to-production delivery, communicate with traders and engineering teams, and champion AI best practices, code reviews, and evaluation.

Operate and evolve Vitol's global shared platforms, CI/CD and cloud services (AWS hybrid). Build platform tooling, automation, pipelines, and deployment services; own reliability, incident response, lifecycle management; partner with developers and security to improve developer experience and embed secure practices; collaborate globally on support and standards.