Senior/ Lead Quant

About Aukera Job

Location:
Berlin / London / Edinburgh / Bucharest / Rome / Spain/ Brussels Background to Aukera Aukera is a leading pan-European renewable energy developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP), dedicated to accelerating the energy transition across the continent. Headquartered in Belgium, we have offices in Brussels, Bucharest, London, Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin, Madrid and Seville. Aukera manage a diversified pipeline of over 15 GW in onshore wind, solar, and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects. We pride ourselves on our values and our collaborative, supportive working environment. Our team is friendly, caring, highly professional, and deeply committed to making a real impact on the planet. As a rapidly growing company, we seek high performers from all backgrounds who are self-motivated, take ownership, and are passionate about driving improvements. We value diversity and are proud to have an international team representing 14 nationalities, with approx. 30% female employees. At Aukera, mutual respect and effective collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

What you'll do
• BESS optimizer: Design, build and own our multi-market BESS optimizer, covering revenue stacking, dispatch scheduling and bid generation across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary services markets. Prove it out through shadow trading against live markets, then harden it into a production-ready system for live trading in key markets.
• Trading & optimizer tech stack: Work closely with the trading technology team to shape our trading and optimization stack: algo bidding, forecasting inputs, ETRM and risk tools.
• Market analysis & price curves: Build and maintain short
- and medium-term power market analysis and price curves (day-ahead, intraday, ancillary services, capacity) across Aukera's markets, underpinning trading, dispatch and investment decisions.
• Backtesting frameworks: Design and implement robust backtesting frameworks to evaluate trading and dispatch strategies and to benchmark internal and third-party optimizer performance.
• Risk, PnL & reporting: Build exposure, PnL and performance reporting for the fleet in close collaboration with the Risk Manager; help establish risk frameworks and ensure compliance with market rules.
• Collaboration & mentoring: Partner with investment, asset management and finance teams to translate market insight into portfolio decisions; mentor junior analysts as the team grows.
• Trading strategies & execution: Develop, test and, as the in-house capability matures, execute trading and bidding strategies across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary services markets in Europe.

What you'll need
• 5+ years in a front-office quant, trading analytics, energy trading or asset-optimization role in short-term European power markets, with exposure to flexibility assets; direct BESS experience strongly preferred.
• Strong quantitative modelling

skills:
BESS dispatch optimization (e.g., LP/MILP), revenue stacking, price analysis and forecasting, and scenario modelling, with a solid understanding of modelling techniques, inputs and parameters, and their limitations.
• Proven proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building production-grade analytics: data pipelines, backtesting frameworks and dashboards. Familiarity with optimization libraries and cloud tooling a plus.
• Strong knowledge of European short-term power markets, energy exchanges and ancillary services (e.g., EPEX Spot / Nord Pool day-ahead and intraday, FCR/aFRR/mFRR, capacity mechanisms); experience in Aukera's core markets a strong plus.
• Good understanding of risk and PnL management in an asset-backed trading context.
• Experience working with, or benchmarking, optimizers and route-to-market providers is a plus.
• Relevant degree in a quantitative field (Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Finance); postgraduate qualifications or energy-trading certifications a plus.
• A pragmatic builder's mindset: comfortable in a scale-up environment where tools are built from scratch and priorities evolve quickly. What is in it for you You will join at the start of Aukera's optimization build-out, with a broad mandate and real autonomy. You will shape the models, the tooling and, over time, the trading setup of a pan-European BESS platform, with direct access to leadership and real influence on investment and route-to-market decisions.

We offer
a market-competitive compensation package, including: [benefits to be confirmed with Aukera HR; indicative structure below]
• Competitive base salary and performance-related bonus
• [long-term incentive participation]
• [XX] days paid holiday leave
• Learning & development plan and budget
• [Hybrid / remote working setup and budget]
• [Pension and insurance package per local market] Who we are Aukera is a pan-European, independent power producer: we develop, invest in, build and operate battery storage and renewable energy infrastructure. Founded in 2021, the platform is scaling rapidly, with projects in construction and operation across Europe and a multi-gigawatt development pipeline. Active management and revenue optimization across the project life cycle is core to our strategy, and this role sits at the center of it. Delete as appropriate
• Italy Employee Benefits
• 22 days Annual leave plus public holidays
• Private Healthcare for you and your dependents
• Meal vouchers 12 Euros per day UK Employee Benefits
• 25 days Annual leave plus public holidays
• Private Healthcare for you and your dependents
• Private Pension (12% of qualifying earnings)
• Life Insurance Romania Employee Benefits
• Private Healthcare
• Life insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Annual leave up to 28 days (dependent on years of experience) plus public holidays Germany Employee Benefits
• 30 days Annual leave plus public holidays •