Commodity Project Manager

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Project description

Luxoft has one of the world's leading Orchestrade practices. We are a top-tier Orchestrade Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration.
We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Orchestrade projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, commodities.

Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry or commodities industry would be of high interest to us.

The project is a Trading and Position platform Implementation for Commodity products : Power, Gaz, Certs, LNG

You will be part of a Top Initiative for this commodity client.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work on several type of commodity products and learn a new trading platform.
You will have the ability to showcase the work directly to the End users.

The team is responsible for the integration of a trading application (Orchestrade) used for:
• Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management.
• Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business
• Leverage strategic standard risk systems
• Integration with Operations, Finance
• Reporting, Reconciliation
• Accounting

The application is Orchestrade:
- Orchestrade is in .Net (C#): Natively connected to Excel
- Database: Microsoft SQL
- Delivered In-House or Hosted (Amazon Web Services)

Also, you will join our Orchestrade Practice and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team.
You will have a chance to grow your functional and soft skills and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.

Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities

Seeking an experienced Commodity Project Manager to oversee and execute an ETRM implementation on commodity trading (Gaz, LNG, Power, Certs, Biomethane) and operations The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end project lifecycles, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. This role demands strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, along with a deep understanding of commodity markets and trends.

Leading an Implementation Team for commodity (Orchestrade application)

Manage a team of 10 resources.

Be an integral part of the design, implementation, and test team

Gather requirements by conducting workshops/one or one discussions with the business teams/SME's.

Analyze, evaluate, and verify requirements by working closely with other team members & Business representatives.

Document the requirement in JIRA as User stories and provide proper acceptance criteria.

Create user stories, test cases and scenarios for the given requirements

Interact with the Vendor team and be involved in solution designs with the Vendor

Work and communicate in a cross-functional Global team comprised of BA, Developers, project managers and support representatives, etc.

Testing & confirming if the development is as per the of the features requested.

Proactively provide status, raise issues, and communicate necessary information to appropriate team members on a regular basis via daily stand-up meetings, one-on-one meetings.

Skills

Must have

Team Leading proven experience

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

Strong Knowledge of commodity products : Power, Certificates, Gaz, Biomethane, Energy, Liquified Natural Gaz.

Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.

Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills

Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources

Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment

Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.

System Integration and User Acceptance testing

Hands-on experience with Agile SAFe practices is a significant plus

Nice to have

Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment is essential.

Have a willingness to learn new skills

Must have attention to detail; have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group;

Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET)

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior