Senior ETRM Software Engineer

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets , you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture:

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

Job Description

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and free from fossil fuel within one generation. We are one of Europe’s leading energy companies with trading activities in the global energy markets. Our Power & Gas business is expanding, and our IT landscape supporting that has a growing need for the fittest solutions. 

Technology cannot tackle the climate change. People who know technology can. 

We are looking for the brightest IT minds that want to join us in our journey towards fossil freedom, in this case a  Senior ETRM Software Engineer  in our Power & Gas Solutions Team. You will guide the development of GP24, a self-develop Gas Scheduling tool, and overall automation and processes.  

The team you can join works closely with business – our Power & Gas traders – and takes the leading role in supplying custom developed solutions. 

What will you do?  
You and your team colleagues are developing and maintaining software solutions using latest technologies and methodologies to nurture business development and maximize business value 

Your tasks and responsibilities:  

• Design, translate requirements for and maintain mission-critical Gas applications powering Vattenfall’s energy trading operations
• Take full ownership of the application lifecycle: from requirement engineering and testing to deployment, maintaining, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Work in close partnership with the Product Owner, Business Analysts, internal Stakeholders, and Developers to deliver the central Gas Trading Platform for Vattenfall

Qualifications

Who are you? 

Are you triggered by cutting edge technology and innovations? Perfect. We are looking for someone with an enthusiastic open mind that has great willingness to explore and learn.

As our Senior ETRM Software Engineer you will bring:

• > 7 years experience with
• Requirement Engineering for Gas Scheduling
• Testing & Maintenance of Gas Scheduling Solutions (especially GP+)
• Strong motivation to drive and accelerate the replacement of GP+ with GP24
• Ability to own & lead the transition to GP24
• Experience with high-availability, system critical applications, especially Gas Scheduling Applications.
• Motivation to constantly work on improving our Gas Scheduling Application
• High agile mindset and experience in agile teams. Open knowledge sharing approach
• Proven ability to communicate directly and efficiently with Gas Traders (PTO & Intraday)
• Fluent English skills (written and spoken). German is a plus

Additional Information

Benefits

Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information
We welcome your application in English, no later than 9th of February 2026 . We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

We look forward to receiving your application!