IT Developer Graduate Programme

RWE Supply & Trading

Location: Essen, Germany

Start date: September 2025

Renumeration: Starting at 54,000 p.a

Full time

From Here, Choose a Whole World Of Experience

Joining us means choosing many possible six-month rotations for your two-year programme. You’ll be free to explore them all – starting in Essen in Germany with others potentially in London, Singapore or the USA. Get ready to find the work and choose the challenges that really inspire you.

As one of our graduates, you will create your own career path across our locations and gain broad exposure while working alongside expert colleagues and building up your knowledge. By the end of the two-year programme, you will have the ideal foundations to grow, develop, and thrive as an IT professional. Join our RWEST IT Developer Graduate Programme and 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.

About The Role

Working in close partnership with leading technology companies, our IT functions drive efficiency and innovation across the 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. Key areas you could choose to do your rotations in include:

• Application development
• Embedded IT for our commercial business such as trading of energy commodities, freight and logistics, commercial asset optimization or sales and origination
• Enterprise Integration focusing on the transport layer within RWEST’s application landscape, working closely with other IT and business teams to optimize the systems.
• Market Data Solutions, which fuel decision-making, automated trading, and fundamental analysis within the Energy Trading industry
• Central Services positioned in middle layer (Integration) applications connecting to various other departments like BackOffice, Risk, and FrontOffice, involving incident management, automated standard service requests, working with concepts of DevOps and Squad model, and migration of applications to cloud-based infrastructure
• IT projects with business attention such as “Lead in Data” or “Lead in Cloud”

Through your rotations, you will increase your IT stack and business knowledge, develop competence in a range of IT languages, and build a good awareness of different working cultures – all of which will prove invaluable in your future career.

Job Requirements And Experiences

As well as a keen interest in the energy industry and the readiness to explore our markets and our business, you’ll need:

• A degree (BSc, MSc, or PhD) in IT or a similar statistical or numerate subject such as Mathematics, Engineering, or Economics
• Fluent English
• A positive approach to working in a team
• Motivation by taking on new challenges
• A commercial and analytical mind
• The ability to adapt and learn quickly
• An enthusiasm for developing your skills and exploring new opportunities
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as C#, Java, or Python
• Passion for IT development and working in a DevOps environment
• Openness to travelling to multiple locations.

From here, you’ll have a community of support

At RWE, 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 experience you bring.

Our Graduate Programme has been designed to give you the chance to shape your own career path and personal development, along with the support you need to make it a success. You’ll be assigned a graduate buddy and a senior mentor within your field who can advise you on rotations and introduce you to key people within the finance business.

We also offer a wide range of development opportunities, including networking events where you’ll meet senior managers and board members. We are committed to developing our Early Career Cohort, encouraging their passion to grow, and helping to develop their skills with their future career in mind. Our development journey is anchored around a strengths-based programme designed specifically for graduates, allowing you the chance to shape your own development and experience a deeply personalised learning in immersive learning environments, complemented by instructor-led training.

And after the programme? The only way is up! Around 70% of our graduates are still working with us long after their programmes have finished. The skills you gain should provide the perfect springboard for your future career.

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
• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and compensation days
• International rotations to the UK, Singapore, the US or possibly further afield, including financial assistance when moving on international assignments
• An enhanced maternity scheme and family-friendly policies
• Free on-site health care including a health centre (gym) on-site
• Access to a modern office & 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 our careers portal or by looking for us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, 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

Any questions? or Lewis Lightbown: T +44 7584159042

Apply before 11th February 2025 with just a few clicks: 88825

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 is 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 team’s 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.#J-18808-Ljbffr