Manager, Technology - Energy Trading & Risk Management in City of London

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.

At Publicis Sapient, we help our clients with their Digital Business Transformation journey. In the Energy & Commodities Trading space, our clients are increasingly investing in the transformation of their digital estate, architecting for speed and agility in the context of the challenges and opportunities brought by the Energy Transition.

As a Manager within Energy & Commodities Trading, you will use your expertise and deep understanding of the issues and trends relevant to the energy trading industry across asset classes to realize ground-breaking solutions for our clients.

• Key contributor to developing, marketing and executing a differentiated technology strategy capability at Publicis Sapient.
• Create strong technology strategy related product offerings, proposals and develop new business.
• Develop adaptive IT strategies based on a deep understanding of our clients’ business.
• Build trusted relationship with clients based on credibility and strong listening.
• Assess the current state of technology organizations, their capabilities and produce value and outcome based strategic roadmaps.
• Set up and lead IT strategy projects according to a vision, value and the logical place to launch.
• Design and facilitate effective client workshops to accelerate current state understanding, identify opportunities, and build consensus across a broad set of business and IT stakeholders.

• Experience with customization and support of OpenLink Endur products (incl. cMotion, pMotion or gMotion) or similar / competing solutions packages.
• Technical expertise in areas like AVS, Connex Frameworks (including exposure to OpenLinks Java Framework and TIBCO integration), VB toolkit, JVS, OpenComponents, or equivalent of other packages.
• Familiar with E/CTRM architecture (functional and deployment) and data model.
• Product configuration expertise (applicable to Power, Gas, Oil, Coal, Emissions etc.) in exchange products (futures and options), OTC products like swaps, swaptions, or forwards.
• Strong understanding of one RDBMS (Oracle / SQL Server/ Sybase).
• Good understanding of the full software development life cycle.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process.