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The ETRM Specialist is responsible for supporting, enhancing, and optimizing Commodity and Energy Trading & Risk Management applications with a primary focus on RightAngle ETRM system. This role combines technical expertise, business process understanding, and strong analytical skills to ensure stability, reliability, and continuous improvement of key trading and risk systems. The Specialist serves as a liaison between trading, risk, accounting, scheduling, and IT teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions and providing expert-level application support. The Specialist must be able to learn new commercial applications that integrate with the ETRM system and provide ongoing support for additional systems as business needs evolve.
JOB DUTIES & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Application Support & Maintenance
Provide day-to-day production support for ETRM system and integrations, troubleshooting complex functional and technical issues.
Diagnose root causes across application layers, integrations, interfaces, and data flows, drive timely resolution.
Support end users across front, middle, and back-office functions, ensuring smooth trading and risk operations.
Maintain strong understanding of trading workflows, including trade capture, scheduling, confirmations, settlements, and risk reporting.
Enhancements & System Improvements
Gather, analyze, and document business requirements for enhancements, configuration changes, and new functionalities.
Partner with development teams and technical architects to design and test system enhancements and customizations.
Perform functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and assist with user acceptance testing (UAT).
Participate in release management, change management, and deployment activities following IT governance frameworks.
Support ETL processes, interfaces, and integration touchpoints with upstream and downstream systems.
Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business strategy and regulatory requirements.
Perform data analysis using SQL to identify root causes and validate changes.
Responsible for custom development efforts and major enhancements.
Team with the Technical Architect to produce a technical specification for custom development and systems integration requirements
Works with end users to validate requirements; captures relevant data and reporting requirements
Works with business users to gather requirements for system improvements or configuration adjustments.
Document configuration changes, workflows, business rules, and support procedures.
Follow ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management processes.
Participate in release planning and coordinate UAT with business teams.
Monitoring, Integration & Monthly Closing Support
Monitor and support interfaces between RightAngle and downstream systems (e.g., risk reporting, financial systems, data warehouses).
Review interface logs and resolve issues with ETL tools such as SSIS, BizTalk, or similar.
Ensure accuracy of inbound/outbound data including deals, prices, inventory movements, and settlements.
Support business users during month-end close, trading close, and inventory reconciliation.
Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, and/or equivalent work experience in a related field
8 years of experience with ETRM system such as Right Angle.
Hands-on experience with RightAngle development, configuration, and support (S21 or later preferred)
4 years of experience developing within the .NET framework
4 years of experience with Oracle or SQL Server including stored procedures, triggers and scripts
Demonstrated expertise in and comfortable using multiple technologies such as VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, HTML, XML, JSON, PHP, JavaScript and SQL.
Experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) tools or utilities (Data Integrator, SSIS, Biztalk)
Experience with web servers, web services, portals and reporting tools such as SQL reporting services
Proficient in testing methods and tools; win/load runner, TFS and/or Azure Devops
Proficient in Waterfall and Agile development methodologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Familiarity with ITIL concepts and the ability to follow problem, change, and incident management processes and procedures
Experience providing technical solutions to non-technical individuals
Demonstrated team building skills
Ability to interact with internal employees and external business contacts while conveying a positive, service-oriented attitude
Willingness to travel to company locations (up to 5%)
Experience with Rightangle S21 or greater version builds is preferred.
Regular and reliable attendance.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.