Quantitative business developer

We at Spring want to revolutionize the business logic of the power system and provide the tools for its decarbonization. Our virtual power plant software enables flexible electricity consumption and storages to act together as one and actively balance the power system. This way our customers can enable more renewable energy and earn additional revenue in the process. We work with the latest technologies in the industry, including batteries, electric vehicles and industrial IoT. We have built multiple operational and growing business cases in the Nordics and are now scaling up and expanding our presence.

Your Role

You will be part of our development team, who is building and operating our software platform. Together with your colleagues, you will work in agile sprints building new features and improving the existing system. You will develop new algorithms for controlling our fleet in real-time and run analyses from our large measurement databases. You will also monitor and do active problem-solving when the algorithms are operational. At times you will also visit customer sites to support installation and testing of our IoT hardware.

This position is permanent and located in Espoo, Finland or Stockholm, Sweden. Currently the team is working partly remotely and will continue in a hybrid mode in the future as well.

We offer you

At Fortum Spring, we offer the unique freedom of working in a highly independent team combined with the supporting backbone of a big organization. You will be working with our modern technology stack to create game-changing models and algorithms, which enable more renewable energy in the power system and combat climate change. You will be part of our versatile team combining technical capabilities and business drive.

Why Fortum?

The greatest challenge of our time awaits you. To drive the change for a cleaner world, we need to reshape the energy system. To reach our goal, we embrace a culture of openness. With mutual trust, believing in people, and taking care of everyone's wellbeing, we can reach even better results. Flexibility is the new normal and we apply hybrid way of working wherever possible.

For you, working at Fortum means exciting opportunities to develop your expertise and create a meaningful career. We will support you on this journey. We believe diversity and inclusion inspire all of us to innovate and grow together. Therefore, we are committed to building teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

Your Qualifications

You are an analytical thinker with a can-do attitude. You have a good grasp of Python and have worked with databases. In addition, you may have also tinkered with IoT hardware and gone deeper into professional software development, but in any case, you are a quick learner. You have a university or college-level education in a relevant field and some years of relevant work experience. Knowledge of the energy sector and electricity markets is highly appreciated. The team language is English, which you communicate in fluently.

Interested?

Send your application via our online recruitment system latest 14.08.2022. Due to the holiday break, we will not start the applicant review process until early August.  For additional information please contact Head of Fortum Spring, Ilari Alaperä, [email protected], +358 40 688 5559, prior to 8.7. or after 1.8. Additional information can also be found on www.spring.energy

For applicants in Finland: To be selected for the position, the applicants must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.

For applicants in Sweden: For contact with Swedish union representatives in Fortum, please call +46 8 671 70 00. Fortums Akademiker: Per Kenttä Unionen: Birgitta Henriksson, Torbjörn Graf

Fortum and Uniper form a European energy group committed to enabling a successful transition to carbon neutrality for everyone. Our 50 gigawatts of power generating capacity, substantial gas import and storage operations, and our global energy trading business enable us to provide Europe and other regions with a reliable supply of low-carbon energy. We are already Europe’s third largest producer of CO2-free electricity, and our growth businesses focus on clean power, low-carbon energy, and the infrastructure for tomorrow’s hydrogen economy. In addition, we design solutions that help companies and cities reduce their environmental footprint. Our 20,000 professionals and operations in 40 countries give us the skills, resources, and reach to empower the energy evolution toward a cleaner world. fortum.com; uniper.energy