Developer & Business Analyst - Trading Systems

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2023 were $400bn.

For more information: vitol.com

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.

As a member of the CTRM team, located in Geneva, Switzerland, you will:

• Actively contribute to the development of our core system by developing new features based on user requirements to meet our evolving business needs
• Work closely with a wide range of users to identify & prioritize requirements and design technical solutions
• Maintain & further improve system modules, including the ones you will help build but also existing ones
• Provide business applications support and training to users on day to day issues
• Running a systems integration with a company we’ve acquired

Our core technologies, including PL/SQL and Oracle Forms Builder, are still an important part of what we do, and they have enabled the Vitol success story. When you join, you will work with our established technologies to get familiar with the data model and business logic, and quickly start adding value to our business. For those interested, we will also create opportunities further down the line to be part of this important technology migration.

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field
• Proven data modelling skills to translate business situations into data structures, proficiency in SQL
• At least 3 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; comfortable with daily release cycle model
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Full proficiency communicating in English in a business context (verbally & in writing)

Qualifications and skills that will help you stand out 

• Experience with PL/SQL (preferred) or a similar procedural DB programming language (e.g. T-SQL)
• Previous experience in the commodities and/or trading industry
• Practical experience with Oracle Forms builder
• Nice to have: experience with programming in C#, C++ or Python
• French language skills a plus (but not required)
• Office based role (1 day per week home office) 

Our Geneva office

Our office is located very centrally, 5 minutes from the main train station and 1 minute from the lake. The office has a rooftop lunch area, with views over the lake and Alps. We organize regular activities to enable our people to meet colleagues from other teams in an informal setting, and to celebrate special achievements.