Niche · Energy trading IT
Implementation practice in Endur, Allegro, FIS Aligne, RightAngle, KISTERS and Trayport. Plus REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II reporting and schedule management. First shortlist within 24 to 48 hours.
Energy trading IT covers the systems and processes with which energy traders execute, value and hedge the purchase and sale of power, gas, carbon certificates and other commodities. Unlike IS-U (retail customer processes) or BRIM (billing), this is about wholesale and risk management — markets such as EEX and EPEX Spot, OTC deals and derivatives. The buyers are utilities, municipal suppliers, trading houses and banks with an energy desk.
At the centre there is usually a specialised ETRM or CTRM system (energy or commodity trading and risk management). The established names are Endur (ION/OpenLink), Allegro, FIS Aligne, RightAngle and KISTERS, and in the European power market Trayport as well as epilot and Powel solutions. Each platform has its own world of configuration, valuation and interfaces — experts are strictly product-specific.
The typical architecture follows front, middle and back office logic:
Energy trading IT is a niche market with premium rates. The experts are rarer than in IS-U and often tied to a small number of systems — knowing Endur does not mean knowing Allegro. And the overlap between an understanding of energy markets, ETRM system depth and regulation is tiny. Conventional IT recruiters have no access to it, because they know neither the systems nor the community.
Someone who has run Endur in production is not automatically at home in Allegro, and the other way round. Every system has its own world of configuration, valuation and interfaces. Standard recruiters often miss the difference and send experts who look interchangeable but are not.
An understanding of energy markets. Plus deep ETRM system knowledge. Plus European and German regulation. Anyone who brings all three belongs to a very small community in the DACH region — and is usually already committed. Conventional sourcing fails here on the first call.
Power schedules to the transmission system operators, REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II reports to ACER and BaFin — regulated processes that cannot be relocated and that carry language and compliance requirements.
We supply experts with real implementation practice in Endur, Allegro, FIS Aligne, RightAngle, KISTERS and Trayport — not trading vocabulary or a chain of certificates. In the briefing we establish exactly which system your requirement hangs on.
We staff all three office worlds, individually or as a combined team. That includes the quant experts for risk topics and the settlement experts for the accounting interface. You do not get a generalist with some energy trading exposure, you get roles that match your architecture.
Schedule management, REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II, and contact with the trading desk stay with German-speaking senior experts. Quant development, algo logic and ETRM customising run through EU nearshore and offshore.
Contract type, delivery location and senior steering are three configurable settings, matched to each client within one contractual framework with our German company. The distinction between work and service contracts, data processing agreements and NIS2 mapping for German reporting duties exist as standard processes, not as a negotiation point per project.
We staff the full range of energy trading IT roles along front, middle and back office logic, plus the regulatory and quant track. The most important roles:
Industry focus in the pool: utilities and municipal suppliers with a trading desk, energy trading houses, banks with an energy desk, specialised trading service providers.
Contract models are part of our compliance toolkit: work contracts for clearly delimited migration phases, service contracts for ongoing architecture advice, and a freelancer construct through InnoShore with documented delimitation from work contracts. Your contracting party is always our German company based in Münster. Data processing agreements and NIS2 mapping exist as standard processes.
30 minutes: skills needed, ETRM system, office area, share of regulatory work, interfaces, contractual framework, onboarding date.
Two or three pre-qualified experts, within our standard of answering 90 per cent of enquiries in 24 to 48 hours — not ten CVs for you to sift through. Including specific ETRM project references and availability windows.
On request, a technical pre-interview with our senior specialist and the candidate. You listen in before the expert reaches your team.
Our German company as your contracting party, onboarding briefing in the team. Realistic start: day 5 to day 10 after the briefing, depending on the setup.
Delivery model · a clear dividing line
In energy trading the question of location is particularly sensitive: schedule management and German regulatory reporting cannot be moved without compliance risk, and they need experts with language confidence and regulatory depth. Importantly, this is not a simple domestic-versus-foreign split for us. We deliver these senior experts not only on-shore from Germany, but also from our EU nearshore hubs.
On-shore in Germany or from the EU nearshore hubs (Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria): schedule management and communication with transmission system operators, REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II reporting towards ACER and BaFin, contact with the trading desk, risk and compliance, and senior architecture in ETRM implementations and migrations.
Brazil and India — pure implementation work without a location requirement: quant development and algo development (Python, C++), ETRM customising and product-level extensions with a senior bridge on-shore, market data and integration builds, reporting implementation outside the regulated submission paths, test automation and hypercare.
In practice we combine these as follows: German-speaking senior experts with trading and regulatory depth take on architecture, contact with the trading desk and reporting — on-shore in Germany or from our EU nearshore hubs. Quant development and algo topics often sit in our offshore centres, there too with German-speaking experts where the business side needs them. The language test at B2 level or above is part of sourcing, not of onboarding, regardless of where the expert is based. One contract, one compliance framework, one point of contact.
From trading houses through utilities to specialised consultancies — we supply senior experts with real depth in the leading ETRM and CTRM systems.
Specialised traders in power, gas, emissions, coal and oil. We supply senior experts with production experience in Endur, Allegro, FIS Aligne, RightAngle, KISTERS and Trayport — front office, middle office risk and back office settlement.
For utilities and municipal suppliers that trade on the market themselves: experts for procurement, balancing group and portfolio management, direct marketing, and intraday or algorithmic trading.
For grid operators we supply substance in schedule management, redispatch, balancing group settlement and clearing — trading-adjacent IT in a regulated critical-infrastructure environment.
Energy-intensive industry that buys power and gas on the market directly. We support energy management and procurement with experts who understand trading and portfolio logic — even when energy is not your core business.
For consulting and implementation firms with an energy trading practice we are the quiet bench partner: senior ETRM and CTRM experts that protect your engagements when your own capacity runs short — discretion towards your client as standard.
For commodity desks at banks and financial services firms we supply senior experts at the intersection of trading, risk and regulation — EMIR, MiFID II and REMIT reporting included.
Endur (ION/OpenLink), Allegro, FIS Aligne, RightAngle, KISTERS, Trayport and other platforms established in the European power market. In the briefing we establish which system your requirement hangs on — experts are product-specific, and an Endur expert is not automatically at home in Allegro.
Yes, in both worlds. In the briefing we establish in which role the expert worked on which Endur or Allegro projects, and which modules they covered.
Yes, with German-speaking senior experts who know communication with transmission system operators and REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II reporting from production practice. Both stay on-shore by necessity — we do not deliver them from nearshore or offshore teams.
The senior architect and the lead contact for the trading desk stay on-shore. Quant development, algo development and ETRM customising run nearshore or offshore. All of it under one contract with our German company and one defined compliance framework, including a clear handover point between the onshore bridge and the implementation team.
Yes. Quant developers and algo developers in Python and C++, usually with a mathematics or physics background. Their understanding of energy markets normally comes from at least one previous ETRM project, which we evidence in the briefing.
24 to 48 hours after the initial briefing for two or three pre-qualified experts. Productive start usually from day 5 to day 10, depending on the contract model and your own compliance lead time.
Contact
A 30-minute intro call is enough for a first assessment of the skills you need. Tell us the ETRM system, the office area and the regulatory depth you are looking for, and the expert proposal is with you within 48 hours.
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