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RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
Start date: July 2027
Salary: £27,100 p.a
Looking to gain experience at a leading European energy trading house with real growth potential? Want to work alongside industry experts, building experience and skills that will help you flourish in your early career? Then one of our year-long Industrial Placements could be just what you are looking for.
Join us at the UK headquarters of RWE Supply & Trading (RWEST) in Swindon where we currently have opportunities in the following area:
Choose Commercial Asset Optimisation Embedded IT
The CAO UK Embedded IT team is responsible for the design, development and support of bespoke applications for RWE Supply & Trading’s mission critical short-term trading desks in Swindon. These applications perform a range of functions from trade capture and aggregation, to balancing, nomination and other downstream processes. “Embedded” means we work very closely with our customers… even when we need to work remotely, the solutions we build are tailored precisely to our customers’ needs.
You will join one of our Dev Ops Squads as an Application Developer, where you will be given full responsibility for the design, code, testing and implementation of application changes – working on developments which will directly benefit the UK trading desks.
Choose Data IT
You will work directly on a latest cloud based tools used across our business to onboard, analyse, share, visualise and find data easily. Whether you are a savvy Python scripter, a dab hand at Infrastructure as Code (IaC), or a multi disciplined software engineer, we have a role you can play within our data domain providing you direct interactions with our traders, analysts and support functions.
Choose Commercial Embedded IT
Embedded IT operates at the heart of our trading department, partnering closely with RWEST’s trading desks to deliver technology solutions aligned with business and trading requirements. Our capabilities span key areas such as data analysis, P&L and position reporting, as well as the development of innovative solutions to support evolving trading needs.
By combining deep business understanding with modern AI, traditional programming, and cloud technologies, we translate ideas from the trading desks into robust, scalable solutions that enhance decision-making and create lasting business value.
You will join the team as a software engineer, working in an agile environment within the RWEST front office where you will collaborate closely with members of the embedded IT team and trading business users.
Passionate about the energy industry? Want to learn and grow alongside experienced industry experts? Working in close partnership with leading technology companies, our IT functions drive efficiency and innovation across the whole of our business. Right from the start, you can be part of it, as you work alongside and collaborate with some of the brightest people in the field, using new, agile techniques and technologies. You’ll learn about our global business from the inside. You will be able to increase your IT stack and business knowledge, develop competence in a range of IT languages and build a good awareness of different working cultures.
We’re looking for students who are in the penultimate year of an IT degree or a similar statistical or numerate subject such as Mathematics, Engineering or Economics, and who are ideally on course to achieve a 2:1 or higher.
Job requirements and experiences
From here, you’ll have a community of support
At RWEST we have an energy to be inclusive and believe diversity drives success. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experiences you bring.
Our industrial placement programme has been designed to give you the chance to gain highly valuable work experience and skills – and potentially secure yourself a place on one of our graduate programmes. From day one, you’ll be making a real contribution to your team. A current placement student will be allocated as a Buddy to all new joiners, enhancing the on-boarding process and overlapping your start date to ensure seamless support as you begin your journey.
To help you get the most out of your placement, we provide lots of support and development opportunities, including in-house courses and on-the-job training with everything you need to make the placement a success. Alongside the day-job, you’ll be provided with comprehensive behavioural skills training with our expert partner, Cappfinity. This will enable you to harness your strengths from day one and identify new ways to utilise the key Skills That Build Skills. This includes interactive sessions where you can learn from our facilitators and your own peers, and self-led elements to support your application of learning back in your day-to-day role.
Your benefits
We’ll do everything we can to help you fulfil your potential with us. We offer a wide variety of initiatives to support you in and out of work, including:
Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 93744, application period: 24/11/2026
Any questions? Contact HR: Early Careers Recruitment Team, rwest_early_careers_recruitment@rwe.com or Paul Roberts, +44 7867 370986
Please upload your resume and cover letter in English as one document. Should you progress through the interview process, you will be asked to share a copy of your transcript.
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We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation, and identity. #inclusionmatters
RWE Supply & Trading is our connection to the world’s energy markets. Headquartered in Essen, Germany, the company operates one of Europe’s largest and most advanced energy trading floors. A diverse team of over 2,300 professionals from around 90 countries trades electricity, gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances. With precise market analysis and a strong customer focus, we create innovative energy supply solutions and tailored risk management concepts for industrial clients.
We also ensure the commercial optimisation of RWE’s power plant portfolio and market the electricity generated by RWE. In addition, legally independent RWE gas storage companies operate in Germany, contributing to a secure energy supply.
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