Orchestrade/Commodities BA

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 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, and 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).

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 in your professional training and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities

• Be an integral part of the design, implementation, and test team.
• Gather requirements by conducting workshops or one-on-one discussions with the business teams/SME\’s.
• Analyze, evaluate, and verify requirements by working closely with other team members and 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.
• Test and confirm 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

• Essentials skills and qualifications.
• Extensive experience and background in capital markets.
• Experience in OpenLink, Endure required.
• Knowledge and experience with commodities product: Power, Certificates, Gaz, Biomethane, Energy, Liquified Natural Gas.
• 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

• 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).