Operational Developer

Operational Developer 
 

Have you got strong experience using MS Excel and Alteryx?
 

Do you have the ability to manipulate and interpret large volumes of complex data?
 

If so, we may have the perfect opportunity for you here at EDF as an Operational Developer!
 

The Opportunity…
 

As an Operational Developer, you will play a key Dev-Ops role in ensuring our deliverables are accurate and on-time. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future technical capabilities of the team by working with the Contract Delivery Manager and wider stakeholders to scope, design and build more advanced systems and tooling using (but not limited to) Alteryx, SQL Databases, AWS services and Excel, while contributing to the operational work of the team.
 

Within our Contract Delivery team here at EDF, the Operational Developer is a key subject matter expert who has an in-depth understanding of operational pricing activities, explains them in a simple way and has excellent stakeholder management skills. 
 

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of £45,000, potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.
 

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans. 
 

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.
 

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  
 
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.
 
We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.
 
What you’ll be doing
 
Key responsibilities will include:
 

•    Scope, design and build new tooling to support key deliverables, primarily using Alteryx, Databases and Excel.
•    Maintain existing tooling and underlying infrastructure within the team to ensure data quality, process robustness and scalability.
•    Utilising on-system/off system calculation(s) of prices for individual or groups of customers and developing bespoke solutions for new requirements.
•    Validate and analyse customer, volumetric and cost data to calculate/generate accurate reconciliations and monitoring for a range of products.
•    Validate and analyse customer, volumetric and cost data to calculate values to fulfil contract delivery commitments e.g. Energy and Non-Energy cost reconciliation, Volume Tolerance charges etc.
•    Analyse requests from a strategic, commercial and operational perspective, ensuring that best approach is taken to achieve accurate and timely contract delivery, providing recommendations to the Contract Delivery Manager 
•    Own and deliver training, along with best practice guidance to onshore/offshore Contract Delivery Analysts, creating a cross-functional and engaged working environment.
•    Represent Contract Delivery as a key stakeholder in operational meetings, in support of or in substitute to the Contract Delivery Manager
•    Lead on the review of key Pricing methods and processes, in line with regulatory change and innovation + pro-actively analyses and measures the effectiveness of existing business processes and develops sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable business process improvements.

Who you are
 
We’re looking for someone with advanced computer skills, who can create complex end-to-end data transformation workflows including the use of macros. 

You’ll have strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with proven ability to influence decision makers. 
 

As an Operational Developer, you’ll need a keenness to challenge the current status quo and look for innovative ways to improve processes along with excellent problem-solving skills, identifying root causes and offering.
 

If this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!
 
Closing date for applications: 24.10.2024
Location: Flexible
Hiring Manager: James Herbert
 

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