IT Placement Programme

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH

Start date:

July 2027

Salary: 27,100 p.aLooking 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 ITThe 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 ITYou 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.

About the role

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

Excellent communication skills with fluent English.

IT proficiency including the ability to use AI-enabled productivity tools.

A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.

Motivated to take on new challenges, whether…