Senior Manager, Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM)

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

This Senior Manager role leads energy trading and risk management transformation programs across front office, risk, physical operations, settlements, finance and enterprise technology. Building on the original ETRM delivery leadership mandate, the role places greater emphasis on end-to-end integration with connected applications—notably SAP, Oracle and other ERP/financial platforms—and on the disciplined use of enterprise-approved AI tools to improve engineering throughput, quality, documentation, testing and migration outcomes. The successful candidate is a client-facing seller-doer who can manage delivery commitments while developing people, relationships and future engagements.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead ETRM Transformation and Delivery: Own program scope, plans, budgets, milestones, resourcing, governance, risks, dependencies, change control and executive reporting from business design through build, SIT/UAT, migration, cutover and stabilization across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid programs.

• Integrate ETRM with Enterprise Applications: Own the connected-application roadmap and integrated solution blueprint across SAP S/4HANA, SAP IS-U, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle E-Business Suite and other finance, procurement, treasury, tax, data and operational platforms; define clear system-of-record boundaries and application ownership.

• Deliver Financial and ERP Process Integration: Coordinate end-to-end trade-to-cash and procure-to-pay data flows, accounting events, GL posting, AP/AR, invoice matching, intercompany, cost/profit centers, tax, cash and treasury, hedge-accounting feeds and period-end reconciliation; ensure appropriate control, audit and exception handling.

• Manage Connected-Application Design and Dependency Delivery: Lead integration architecture, interface inventories, data contracts, event and batch sequencing, middleware/API management, SAP Integration Suite/BTP, Oracle Integration Cloud or alternative iPaaS patterns, and the operational handoffs among ETRM, ERP, logistics, market data, trading exchanges and regulatory systems.

• Implement Trading, Risk and Physical Operations: Deliver position management, valuation, P&L attribution, VaR and stress testing, counterparty credit, collateral, limits, commodity scheduling, nominations, logistics, inventory, settlement and regulatory requirements across power, gas, crude, refined products, LNG and renewables.

• Industrialize AI-Enabled Delivery: Create an AI adoption plan for approved tools such as IBM Bob, Procedure Eater, Claude Code and equivalent enterprise coding/knowledge agents; prioritize high-value use cases across legacy procedure analysis, business-rule extraction, user-story creation, solution design, code generation, mapping, test cases, defect triage and technical documentation.

• Govern AI Quality, Security and Return on Investment: Establish controls for client confidentiality, source-code/IP protection, access permissions, prompt/data handling, generated-code review, traceability, test coverage and model-output validation; measure cycle time, defects, rework, coverage and realized productivity rather than assuming benefits.

• Coordinate Data Migration and Integrated Testing: Oversee data profiling, mapping, cleansing and reconciliations; lead end-to-end and cross-system test planning spanning ETRM-to-ERP postings, operational events, settlement, financial close, exceptions, recovery and negative-path scenarios.

• Lead Cutover and Business Readiness: Synchronize ETRM and connected-application releases, master-data readiness, interface activation, parallel runs, financial-control sign-off, training, operational support transitions and hypercare.

• Advise on ETRM Product and Technology Strategy: Guide platform selections and implementation choices across Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Enuit ENTRADE, Triple Point, Aspect, Orchestrade, Molecule and related applications; align ETRM and ERP roadmaps to business capabilities and modernization opportunities.

• Lead Stakeholders and Develop Teams: Build trusted relationships with CIO/CTO/CFO/CRO leaders, trading, risk, finance, operations, enterprise architecture and vendors; develop delivery leads and SMEs through coaching, clear ownership and accountable governance.

• Support Sales and Practice Development: Identify follow-on transformation, integration and AI-enabled modernization opportunities; contribute to discovery, solution shaping, estimates, statements of work, proposals, partnerships and thought leadership.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required technical and professional expertise

• ETRM and Program Leadership: 10+ years in energy trading technology or ETRM/CTRM transformation, including 5+ years leading complex, multi-workstream programs and at least two substantial end-to-end ETRM deliveries.

• Connected ERP Delivery: Demonstrated accountability for integrations connecting ETRM with SAP and/or Oracle or comparable ERPs, including financial posting, reconciliations, interfaces, error management and business controls.

• Integration Architecture Literacy: Strong practical understanding of APIs, event/message interfaces, ETL, master/reference data, middleware/iPaaS, integration testing and application interoperability, sufficient to challenge and govern technical designs.

• Commodity Business Expertise: Solid command of front-to-back trading, market/credit risk, physical operations, logistics, settlement, invoicing, treasury and finance processes in energy markets.

• AI-Enabled Delivery Experience: Experience applying or piloting AI-assisted engineering, code understanding or knowledge extraction tools in real software delivery, with a clear approach to human validation, confidentiality and measurable outcomes; exact named-tool experience is not mandatory.

• Commercial and Stakeholder Skills: Executive communication, financial management, vendor coordination, risk and change governance, people development, pursuit support and ability to operate as a consulting seller-doer.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• SAP / Oracle Ecosystem Expertise: Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance, IS-U, SAP BTP / Integration Suite, Oracle Fusion ERP / EBS, Oracle Integration Cloud, finance data models and posting/reconciliation controls.

• ETRM Platform Breadth: Experience with two or more of Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Enuit ENTRADE, Triple Point, Aspect, Orchestrade, Molecule and Paragon.

• AI Delivery Tooling: Hands-on familiarity with IBM Bob, Procedure Eater, Claude Code or similar enterprise-approved agents for codebase discovery, documentation, engineering productivity and legacy modernization.

• Controls and Compliance: Experience with SOX, ASC 815/IFRS 9 hedge accounting, FERC, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID II, and regulated utility or trading control environments as applicable.

• Connected Energy Ecosystem: Exposure to ICE/CME, pricing/market-data services, ISO/RTO operations, pipeline scheduling, shipping/logistics platforms, meter data, treasury and enterprise reporting.

• Methods and Credentials: PMP, PgMP, SAFe or relevant enterprise architecture / cloud certification; experience managing globally distributed delivery teams.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.