IT Placement Programme 2025

From here, choose a whole world of experience.

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 across a variety of areas:

Lead in 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 Business Intelligence wizard or generalist developer we have a role you can play within our data domain providing you direct interactions with our traders, analysts and support functions.

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.

Site Reliability Engineering

The Site Reliability Engineering Team are located across Essen(Germany), Swindon, London (UK) and are looking to expand the operations in USA. As a central team our work horizon ensures different applications support, analysing systems (ETRM , RISK etc), researches problems, maintenance, coordination, cloud native and development of Inhouse and external application tools in energy markets.

You will join as an Endur Application Analyst, focused on providing stability by monitoring the infrastructure and helping the business resolve day-to-day issues like Trade capture, APM services, EoD maintenance etc.. You would ensure reliability by defining business needs with stakeholders and performing system problem solving. Working closely with business and IT stakeholders to quick issue resolutions through an Incident Management, Problem Management, CI/CD deployment etc.

Job requirements and experiences

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. What you must have is:

• Excellent communication skills with fluent English
• IT proficiency
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
• Motivated to take on new challenges, whether operating independently or in a team
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as C#, Java or Python
• Passion for IT development and working in a DevOps environment
• Commercial aptitude and entrepreneurial skills
• Analytical mind and the ability to learn quickly
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team

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. 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. 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.

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:

• Competitive salary plus annual discretionary bonus
• Company pension
• Discounted employee share scheme
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays; you can also buy up to an additional 5 days leave per year
• Two paid annual volunteer days to be used with a charity or initiative of your choice
• An enhanced maternity scheme and family friendly policies
• Free on-site healthcare plus access to AXA Private Healthcare Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters
• Access to a modern office and trading floor with state-of-the-art IT
• Open and diverse company culture with various clubs and societies - join any of our employee networks for social interaction (including Diversity Ambassador Programme)
• Flexible benefits, including discounts at shops

From here, you have a choice to make

Keen to discover more? Why not meet #TeamRWE where you can get to know some of our colleagues better through videos, testimonials, interviews, and podcasts. Find out more on https://www.rwe.com/en/rwe-careers-portal or by looking for us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of sex, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity. #inclusionmatters

As an inclusive employer, we want to support you to perform at your best at each stage of our recruitment process and can make adjustments to ensure this. If you’d like to request any adjustments or know how we can support you better, please contact us confidentially at rwestearlycareers@rwe.com.

Any questions? rwestearlycareers@rwe.com or Paul Roberts, T: +44 7867 370986

Please upload your CV and cover letter in English and as one document. Also, please include your recent university and A-Level (or equivalent) grades.

About us

RWE Supply & Trading is our connection to the world’s energy markets. With headquarters in Essen, Germany, the tight-knit 2,000-strong team’s drawn from over 70 countries, and operates Europe’s largest and most advanced energy trading floor – trading a mix of electricity, gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. They commercially optimise our power plants’ dispatch and take care of the renewables electricity sales, too.

Tech-led and customer-focused, the teams agile mindset helps them respond and adapt intelligently to work that never stands still. Each day, there’s a chance to grow as you create the financial foundations to invest in our green future. From well-established graduate programmes to success-related recognition - you'll experience a culture energised by trust, passion and performance.