Project Manager
Summary
Oversee the implementation of a commodity trading platform (Orchestrade) for energy products like power, gas, and LNG, managing a 20-person team and coordinating with business stakeholders.
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 a 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 a CTRM Implementation
- Manage a project of 20 resources.
- Define and manage project scope, timelines, resources allocation in alignment with business objectives.
- Establish governance, reporting cadence, and risk management framework for the project.
- Drive functional and technical workshops 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.
- Interact with the Vendors team and align with them
- 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
- 7+ years of project management experience in commodities trading or energy markets.
- Extensive Capital Markets experience or in commodity trading (Gaz, LNG, Power, Certs, Biomethane) and operations
- 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
Nice to have
• Familiarity with major ETRM platforms (Endur/Openlink, Allegro, Orchestrade, Aspect, TriplePoint). • Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment is essential. • Have a willingness to learn new skills • Hands-on experience with Agile SAFe practices is a significant plus