We are seeking someone to support and maintain our mission-critical Hydra/VB applications, working closely with our energy trading group, gathering requirements, and troubleshooting application issues. Our front office applications support business-critical operations with stringent trading windows every day, and this role would directly interact with and support applications/tools for trading systems. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, situational awareness, and the ability to see things through became the success factors for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyze, and review ISO market requirements for enhancements and system updates
• Develop, maintain and optimize VB automations and excel integration with internal apps
• Responsible for assessing and understanding ISO-market technical requirements and developing corresponding VB automations with XSD changes, market rules changes, etc.
• Communicate application releases and updates with business stakeholders and manage support
• Work with offshore teams and provide clear requirements and technical documentation
• Functional testing of the VB and Macro workbooks, end-to-end testing excel add-ins with other IT groups and support teams
• Support day-to-day trade floor operations, troubleshoot issues and errors, and reach out to the responsible teams, internal or external, for resolution
• Document releases and updates, maintaining artifacts for IT-business integrations
• Responsible for front-end support of critical Excel-based IT applications