Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities, including metals, to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business, trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $13+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 2024 were over $330bn.
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The Data Engineering team is responsible for a fundamental data system processing 50+ billion rows of data per day and feeding directly into trading decisions. The Data Engineer will be designing, implementing and maintaining this system, keeping it reliable, resilient, and low-latency.
We are looking for a highly technical engineer who is highly technical, with strong experience working in MPP platforms and/or Spark, “big data” ( e.g., weather forecasts, AIS pings, satellite imagery, …), and developing resilient and reliable data pipelines. You will be responsible for data pipelines end to end: acquisition, loading, transformation, implementing business rules/analytics, and delivery to the end user (trading desks / data science / AI).
You will partner closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to understand their data requirements and deliver the necessary data infrastructure to support their activities. Given our scale, you should bring a deep focus on performance optimisation, improving data access times and reducing latency.
This role will require strong coding skills in SQL and Python, and a deep understanding on how to leverage the AWS stack.
Strong communication is essential: you should be comfortable translating technical concepts to non-technical users, as well as turning business requirements into clear, actionable technical designs.
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We are a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum; from oil through to power, renewables and carbon credits. Every day we use our expertise to distribute energy around the world. We source from producers, refiners and intermediaries and deliver to refineries, utilities, airlines and retail distribution networks as well as wholesalers and other traders. We manage the physical risk associated with moving energy.
Our business is global: we trade over 7 million barrels per day of crude oil and products and charter around 6,000 ship voyages a year. We also use our technical expertise to manage a global network of energy infrastructure that we deploy to help meet supply and demand flows worldwide. Our trading and logistical expertise is supported by a suite of proprietary technology applications that we build and maintain in-house.
From more than 40 offices worldwide, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $2 billion of capital to renewable projects and sustainable energy solutions. The focus of our business is changing, and we are always looking for new people to help build the company for the next decade and beyond.
We are a flat organisation that has a collaborative and entrepreneurial ethos. Vitol’s people are empowered to own their decisions and take responsibility for their actions. The culture is underpinned by our core values of integrity, honesty and humility. Our colleagues comprise c.1,600 people with 65+ nationalities represented, making us a truly global organisation.
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