Commodity Project Manager

  • Luxoft
  • Feb 13, 2025
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

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, and 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 types 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-on-one discussions with the business teams/SMEs.
  • 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 BAs, Developers, project managers, and support representatives, etc.
  • Testing & confirming if the development is as per 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.
  • 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).