Sr Quantitative Analyst

Date: May 17, 2023

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 72240

provides renewable energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis. As a NextEra Energy Resources company, the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, we thrive on solving the toughest problems facing the energy industry, and creating innovative forecasting and optimization solutions that lead the way into the next era of energy. Do you want to help accelerate the transition to low-cost sustainable energy? Join our world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

Employees in this role develop models, price energy derivatives, design and perform quantitative studies and analyses of spot/forward prices and volatilities for making pricing, trading, and risk management decisions. This position assists in the development of core algorithms and models to support trading, origination, and asset optimization decisions.

Employees in this role are involved in the entire software development lifecycle from model research to production. The quant developer will work with the quantitative researcher to develop trading infrastructure around the core predictive or optimization algorithm.

• Genuine interest to improve our code/software infrastructure and related services with good sense for code quality. Comfort and interest implementing statistical and mathematical models developed by quant researcher/data scientist is also desired.

• Advanced R and/or Python (2 and 3) knowledge. > 4 years of experience designing and developing commercial quality R or Python software.

• Familiarity with NumPy and statistical programming in Python using Pandas, StatsModels, Matplotlib/Seaborn, Scikit-Learn, and/or SciPy.

• Review and provide insightful feedback on documentation including software architecture, requirements, design documents, test protocols, unit tests, operating procedures, project plans, etc.

• Experience creating and managing R and/or Python (via Setuptools is desirable) packages.

• Experience with SQL and working knowledge of how to build and manage a SQL database. Experience with NoSQL database is a plus.

• Experience with code refactoring for speed and reliability. In particular experience with Rcpp and related family of packages is a plus.

• Experience developing for Unix/Linux was well as Windows environments. Amazon AWS experience is a plus.

• OOP experience in R (S3, S4 and R6) and Python.

Further technical expertise, such as web development, data visualization, GUI development (e.g. with RShiny, plotly, bokeh, or Jupyter notebooks etc.) is very welcome

Job Overview

Employees in this role develop models, price energy derivatives, design and perform quantitative studies and analyses of spot/forward prices and volatilities for making pricing, trading, and risk management decisions. This position assists in the development of core algorithms and models to support trading, origination, and asset optimization decisions.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and improves upon mathematical models and translates algorithms into code

• Works with origination, risk management and trading to interpret valuations provided by models and responds to intra-day trading requests to price and evaluate structured transactions

• Assists development of energy price forecast, forward curve, and volatility models

• Designs and constructs risk management tools used in evaluating company's risk profile and exposure levels

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED

• Bachelor's Degree

• Master's Degree

• Experience: 4+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective Written Communications

• Effective Verbal Communications

• Bachelor's - Accounting / Finance

• Doctorate - Business

• JavaScript.

• Liability/Risk Analysis

• Lotus Notes

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Finance, Accounting & Business Analytics

Organization: NextEra Analytics Inc

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

Where permitted by applicable law, NextEra Energy requires all employees and new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on or before the first day of employment.

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