Trading Front Office Data Engineer

**Company**
QatarEnergy is an integrated national oil corporation that stands at the forefront of efforts for the long term sustainable

development, utilization and monetization of oil and gas resources in the State of Qatar. In its efforts to become one of the

best national energy companies in the world, QatarEnergy's activities and those of its subsidiaries and joint ventures,

encompass the entire spectrum of the oil and gas value chain locally, regionally, and internationally. They include the

exploration, refining and production, marketing, and sale of oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural gas

liquids(NGL), gas to liquids (GTL) products, refined products, petrochemicals, fertilizers, steel and aluminum. As an

integrated corporation, QatarEnergy's activities also include marketing and sale of oil and gas and other various products.

QatarEnergy's operations and activities are conducted at various onshore locations, including Doha, Dukhan and the

Mesaieed and Ras Laffan Industrial Cities; and at various offshore areas, such as offshore oilfields production stations,

drilling platforms, Halul oil export island, and the North Field, which is the largest single non-associated gas reservoir in the

world covering an area of 6,000 square kilometers. The utilization of this field’s massive reserves has become a primary

national goal to continue the development and prosperity of the country. QatarEnergy pays the utmost attention to the

health and safety of its employees, contractors, visitors and the local communities where it operates. From drilling to

construction, operations to decommissioning, QatarEnergy's health, safety and environment policy forms an integral part of

the corporation’s daily business and long term planning. QatarEnergy is committed to contribute to a better future by

meeting today’s economic needs, while safeguarding our environment and resources for generations to come. Thriving on

innovation and excellence, QatarEnergy is bound to the highest levels of sustainable human, socio-economic, and

environmental development in Qatar and beyond.

**Department**
Trading Solutions Team

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

**Primary purpose of job**
QatarEnergy is looking for an experienced Data Engineer in the Trading Solutions team and fully immersed in QatarEnergy

Trading Front Office:

- Develop and implement greenfield data architecture and processes within the front office of a global LNG trading

organization to enable market analysis and trading functionality.
- Build bespoke data collection (e.g. API connectivity, FTP, HTML web scraping) tools and connections to a variety of

remote sources, including non-standard (such as non-western language) web sources. Lead construction of visualization,

team in this area.
- Design and construct economic models for market analysis and price prediction, implemented primarily in Python & VBA
- Contribute and support data analysis and model outputs to contextualize and employ data in support of LNG trading

activity. Build, maintain, and expand structured databases (MS SQL) for the storage and retrieval of global gas & power

pricing and fundamentals data.
- Take primary responsibility for driving data quality and integrity standards across the LNG trading organization, driving

processes, standards, and raising general awareness of the importance of world-class data quality throughout the business.
- Provide timely expert and technical support on Trading analytics systems. Contribute as required to IT projects to

implement new or transform existing Trading solutions.
- Document and share knowledge & practices related to Trading analytics systems.

address Trading systems vulnerabilities and threats.

**Experience & Skills**:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience working as a data engineer or front office developer with experience building data feeds

(from scratch) within the financial industry.
- Adept at designing, constructing and managing large datasets, including database implementation, data scraping and

collection, data clean-up, retrieval, and eventual visualization & reporting
- Experienced in construction from scratch of detailed and bespoke economic models which interface with data warehouses
- Extensive experience developing front office trading tools and models
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the implementation and use of visualization and reporting tools and models,

ideally within a trading front office environment
- Strong development skills in Python, C#, VBA, SQL, and ideally Javascript and web app development
- Knowledge of ETL/ETLS and Data Warehousing concepts and technologies
- An understanding of the global Gas and LNG markets as well as related Trading business is strongly preferred.

Knowledge and experience dealing with LNG/G&P data types & sources.
- Ability to implement solutions using Agile methods, including prototyping and tactical solutions to meet the short-term and

dynamic