Acquisitions


SWD is interested in acquiring firms whether established or startup with technologies in or providing services to industries such as energy trading, energy demand modelling, weather forecasting, weather analytics or provision of climatological research. Please contact S P Doherty via the contacts page.

Careers

Position: Meteorologist

Start: Summer 2011
Location: Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Note: Speedwell Weather is currently moving its office from its current location in Alexandria, VA to Charleston, SC. This position is for the Charleston office.

Narrative
Speedwell Weather Derivatives (SWD) is the pre-eminent provider of weather services to the weather derivative and energy markets. Our business areas include the provision of weather data, numerical forecasts, weather derivative pricing software and consulting. Within the weather derivative market we believe the majority of participants use one or other of our products.
Established in 1999 and with offices in the UK and the USA our clients include investment banks, investment funds, reinsurance institutions, traders, brokers and energy companies.

Our products include:
  • Speedwell Weather System (SWS) for weather derivative pricing and portfolio management
  • Cleaned weather data sets
  • Recalibrated Data sets which adjust for site discontinuities
  • Web based tools
  • Probabilistic forecasts
  • The SuperPack which exposes our inventory of thousands of weather data sets to clients for a single fee.

We are in the process of expanding the capabilities of our US office which is being moved to Charleston, SC office as we see increased demands for our products. The individual selected for this position will be involved with day-to-day product delivery and client support. We are looking for an articulate individual with an extensive knowledge of meteorology, an ease with numerical problems and the ability to learn to work with an extensive infrastructure that has been built to produce and deliver products to clients.

Role Responsibilities
  • Overseeing the process of producing daily deliveries of weather data
  • Assuring the quality of those data deliveries
  • Providing customer support
  • Collaborating on product development

Requirements
  • Degree in Meteorology
  • Ability to work independently
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools
  • Strong communication skills
  • Mathematically strong
  • Absolute attention to detail- necessary to ensure the quality of the products we deliver

Desirable Attributes
  • Familiarity with the weather derivative and energy markets
  • Proficiency in Spanish
  • Willingness to travel. We take training very seriously and it will be necessary to initially spend some time in our UK office.

This position offers the opportunity to work in an environment where creativity, a strong work ethic, and an entrepreneurial spirit are highly valued and rewarded
The candidate will be responsible to the U.S. Operations Director for day-to-day matters.
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter detailing their qualifications and other relevant background information.

What we offer
  • 5-weeks annual vacation
  • Health benefits (including dental coverage)
  • Continuing education opportunities

Please Contact:

Speedwell Weather
Attention: David Whitehead
418 King St., Floor 2 Charleston, SC 29403 USA
Phone: (843) 737- 4843; (843) 737- 4844
E-mail: David.Whitehead@SpeedwellWeather.com

 
Position: C# quantitative developer, programmer. (2010 Position Filled)

Harpenden (Hertfordshire) based forecast, data & software company is recruiting for a C# developer to join our computational development team. The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level in applied mathematics, meteorology, physics or actuarial studies. Good OOP, client-server and SQL skills, probability and statistical knowledge are a must since you will be developing applications used by trading desks. VB 6 and Delphi 7 knowledge would be a plus. We are looking for candidates who are motivated by software and software engineering at the highest level. Experience in the financial, insurance or meteorological field is not a requirement but would help..

The person needs to combine analytic and development skills

Responsibilities
 
  • Help design and implement new functionality
  • Help maintaining existing application in C# and migrate some applications to C#
  • Provide advice on core system architecture (N-tiers systems, multi-threading)
  • Help with implementing mathematical functions
  • Help setting in place Unit Testing
  • Some application support
  • Some client support

 

Technologies

 

  • Essential C# (4 yrs experience)
  • SQL Server, T-SQL (2 yrs)
  • Client-Server and/or Distributed and Multi-threaded Application Design (2 years)
  • COM/DCOM and/or .Net Remoting

 

"Nice-to-haves"

 

  • Delphi 7
  • VB 6
  • Financial/Insurance/Reinsurance market experience or Meteorological background

 

Please contact Stephen P Doherty via stephen.doherty@speedwell.net