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Title: Technical Manager, Commodity Market Risk
Location: Houston, TX 77079 (Hybrid)
FTE Position
Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Manager, Commodity Market Risk to provide senior quantitative leadership and serve as a recognized subject matter expert across market risk disciplines. This role will drive advanced risk analytics, including Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, and structuring analysis, while leading complex, cross functional initiatives that support informed decision-making in dynamic commodity markets.
What You Will Do:
- Lead VaR model integrity, P&L decomposition, and end to end FEA VaR integrity risk to ensure accurate and scalable enterprise risk reporting.
- Conduct market risk assessments for new business initiatives, supporting senior management and CFRMC approval processes.
- Deliver end-to-end development of risk reporting tools and automation, leveraging Python and Power BI for advanced analytics.
- Expand team capabilities in risk reporting development, stress testing, back testing, and scenario analysis (including VaR simulations) to strengthen risk insights and reporting.
- Enhance valuation controls and price curve validation processes, ensuring robust and reliable enterprise reporting.
- Demonstrated expertise with Pricing Datawarehouse, ZEMA pricing connections, other APIs and related functionality.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Trading, Business Development, Risk, IT, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance teams to support full transaction lifecycle success.
- Provide ongoing Risk Policy approval recommendations based on technical analysis to support clear governance over commodity desk activities involving authorities, market risk limits, strategies, transaction types, and geographies.
- Support quarterly management meeting content for multiple business units relating to proposed Risk Policy approvals, ongoing market risk communication and risk metrics oversight.
- Monitor and report metric-related Risk Policy non-compliance events relative to applicable prescribed commercial limits.
Who You Are:
- Bachelors degree in economics, finance, or applied sciences with 8+ years of in-depth experience in power, natural gas, &/or crude oil markets in risk management.
- Advanced coding experience in Python, SQL, & Business Intelligence apps (Power BI is preferred).
- Experienced in performing risk control processes, including the development, monitoring, & enforcing of market risk limits, daily risk reporting of commodity MTM, VaR and positions.
- Strong understanding of probabilities & statistics with the ability to perform scenario stress testing & analysis, back testing of strategies & trading portfolio decomposition of risk.
- In-depth knowledge of modern VaR & GMaR methodologies.
- Excellent written & oral communication skills; ability to explain financial models in operational terms.
- Dynamic interpersonal skills & the ability to work effectively with others.
- Thrives in a dynamic, collaborative working team environment involving daily tasks, project work & new product development.
- Strong understanding of multiple option valuation methodologies & risk management approaches.
- Experience in the design of risk metrics & controls to manage cash month price risks.
- Experience reviewing large pricing data history, creating, & identifying value added visualizations/insights for decision makers.
- Ability to create new market risk tools & processes by defining a project’s vision & executing it from inception to completion.
- Technical experience risk managing, troubleshooting and modeling transactions in Openlink/Endur or similar energy trading & risk management systems (ETRM) across the transaction life cycle.
Preferred:
- Experience with OpenLink/Endur (or similar ETRM systems) is a strong asset.
- CFA, MBA, CA, or other related designation is an asset. Risk Management designations in ERP or FRM are also an asset.
- Concurrent cross commodity expertise across multiple geographies for liquid and illiquid products, exchange traded activities, including CSO’s.
- Power specific experience:
- Strong understanding of how to analyze power LMP/congestion settlement & external forward pricing sources, make price curve recommendations or valuation enhancements.
- Experienced in the following aspects of power markets: commonly used trading strategies, FTRs, hourly pricing scalars, capacity, RECs, fixed block utility auctions & full requirements transactions.
- Experience in PJM, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, ERCOT, SPP, IESO &/or AESO power markets; ISO specific market regulations & requirements for physical or financial transactions.
- Strong understanding of cash month wholesale power markets & associated financial products (ex., FTRs, Virtuals, increment / decrements), ancillary service products & physical power trading strategies.
- Experience in risk management of spark spread / heat rate products & trading strategies.
Working Conditions:
Typical office environment, open trading floor concept setup.
Benefits:
- A flexible benefits program that allows each employee to select the level of coverage needed for their family in the areas of health, dental, insurance and disability.
- A paid maternity and parental leave benefit that offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birth-giving parents and up to 12 weeks for other eligible parents, providing flexibility and support during this important life event.
- Valuable retirement savings plans, including a savings plan with company stock as an investment option.
- Paid time off/vacation/sick, plus paid personal days off (depending on location), and paid holidays.
- An Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Wellness Program, which focuses on supporting healthier employees by providing tools, resources, and opportunities to improve physical, mental, social, and financial well-being.
- Client's FlexWork (hybrid work model) offers eligible employees (Manager and below) the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays, opt for a compressed work week schedule, or have flexible start and end times. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option.
Title: Technical Manager, Commodity Market Risk
Location: Houston, TX 77079 (Hybrid)
FTE Position
Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Manager, Commodity Market Risk to provide senior quantitative leadership and serve as a recognized subject matter expert across market risk disciplines. This role will drive advanced risk analytics, including Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, and structuring analysis, while leading complex, cross functional initiatives that support informed decision-making in dynamic commodity markets.
What You Will Do:
- Lead VaR model integrity, P&L decomposition, and end to end FEA VaR integrity risk to ensure accurate and scalable enterprise risk reporting.
- Conduct market risk assessments for new business initiatives, supporting senior management and CFRMC approval processes.
- Deliver end-to-end development of risk reporting tools and automation, leveraging Python and Power BI for advanced analytics.
- Expand team capabilities in risk reporting development, stress testing, back testing, and scenario analysis (including VaR simulations) to strengthen risk insights and reporting.
- Enhance valuation controls and price curve validation processes, ensuring robust and reliable enterprise reporting.
- Demonstrated expertise with Pricing Datawarehouse, ZEMA pricing connections, other APIs and related functionality.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Trading, Business Development, Risk, IT, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance teams to support full transaction lifecycle success.
- Provide ongoing Risk Policy approval recommendations based on technical analysis to support clear governance over commodity desk activities involving authorities, market risk limits, strategies, transaction types, and geographies.
- Support quarterly management meeting content for multiple business units relating to proposed Risk Policy approvals, ongoing market risk communication and risk metrics oversight.
- Monitor and report metric-related Risk Policy non-compliance events relative to applicable prescribed commercial limits.
Who You Are:
- Bachelors degree in economics, finance, or applied sciences with 8+ years of in-depth experience in power, natural gas, &/or crude oil markets in risk management.
- Advanced coding experience in Python, SQL, & Business Intelligence apps (Power BI is preferred).
- Experienced in performing risk control processes, including the development, monitoring, & enforcing of market risk limits, daily risk reporting of commodity MTM, VaR and positions.
- Strong understanding of probabilities & statistics with the ability to perform scenario stress testing & analysis, back testing of strategies & trading portfolio decomposition of risk.
- In-depth knowledge of modern VaR & GMaR methodologies.
- Excellent written & oral communication skills; ability to explain financial models in operational terms.
- Dynamic interpersonal skills & the ability to work effectively with others.
- Thrives in a dynamic, collaborative working team environment involving daily tasks, project work & new product development.
- Strong understanding of multiple option valuation methodologies & risk management approaches.
- Experience in the design of risk metrics & controls to manage cash month price risks.
- Experience reviewing large pricing data history, creating, & identifying value added visualizations/insights for decision makers.
- Ability to create new market risk tools & processes by defining a project’s vision & executing it from inception to completion.
- Technical experience risk managing, troubleshooting and modeling transactions in Openlink/Endur or similar energy trading & risk management systems (ETRM) across the transaction life cycle.
Preferred:
- Experience with OpenLink/Endur (or similar ETRM systems) is a strong asset.
- CFA, MBA, CA, or other related designation is an asset. Risk Management designations in ERP or FRM are also an asset.
- Concurrent cross commodity expertise across multiple geographies for liquid and illiquid products, exchange traded activities, including CSO’s.
- Power specific experience:
- Strong understanding of how to analyze power LMP/congestion settlement & external forward pricing sources, make price curve recommendations or valuation enhancements.
- Experienced in the following aspects of power markets: commonly used trading strategies, FTRs, hourly pricing scalars, capacity, RECs, fixed block utility auctions & full requirements transactions.
- Experience in PJM, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, ERCOT, SPP, IESO &/or AESO power markets; ISO specific market regulations & requirements for physical or financial transactions.
- Strong understanding of cash month wholesale power markets & associated financial products (ex., FTRs, Virtuals, increment / decrements), ancillary service products & physical power trading strategies.
- Experience in risk management of spark spread / heat rate products & trading strategies.
Working Conditions:
Typical office environment, open trading floor concept setup.
Benefits:
- A flexible benefits program that allows each employee to select the level of coverage needed for their family in the areas of health, dental, insurance and disability.
- A paid maternity and parental leave benefit that offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birth-giving parents and up to 12 weeks for other eligible parents, providing flexibility and support during this important life event.
- Valuable retirement savings plans, including a savings plan with company stock as an investment option.
- Paid time off/vacation/sick, plus paid personal days off (depending on location), and paid holidays.
- An Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Wellness Program, which focuses on supporting healthier employees by providing tools, resources, and opportunities to improve physical, mental, social, and financial well-being.
- Client's FlexWork (hybrid work model) offers eligible employees (Manager and below) the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays, opt for a compressed work week schedule, or have flexible start and end times. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Amazon440
- Apple272
- Google271
- Nvidia170
- CVS Health121
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software2,367
- Electronics & Hardware574
- Consulting & Professional Services569
- Banking & Financial Services353
- Manufacturing328
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in technical manager jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience leading software or technical engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to define technical roadmaps and deliver projects on schedule
- Proficiency with agile or scrum methodologies and project management tools such as Jira
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing individual contributors and senior engineers
- Strong cross-functional communication skills with product, design, and executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Technical Manager Job Search
Quantify your team and delivery outcomes
Technical managers get passed over when their resume reads like an engineer's. Hiring panels want team size, budget authority, and delivery metrics. Replace task descriptions with outcomes: how many engineers you led, what shipped, and what improved.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists technical manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by product stage, not just industry
A technical manager role at a seed-stage startup differs fundamentally from the same title at a public company. Target openings that match the stage you've operated in, since interviewers will probe your comfort with ambiguity, process maturity, and headcount decisions accordingly.
Prepare a leadership failure story for interviews
Behavioral rounds for technical managers almost always include a question about a project that missed the mark or a team conflict you handled poorly. Prepare one honest, specific example with a clear lesson. Vague or blameless answers hurt more than they help.
Translate your technical depth without over-explaining
Non-technical hiring managers on a panel need to trust your credibility without following every detail. Practice framing your technical decisions in terms of tradeoffs, risk, and business impact rather than implementation specifics. Both audiences need to walk away confident.
Negotiate scope, not just compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify what the role actually owns: headcount authority, budget sign-off, and whether the roadmap is shared or assigned. Mismatches in actual scope cause more early exits than pay, so surface these before you accept.
Technical Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most technical managers?
The companies hiring the most technical managers right now include Amazon, Apple, and Google, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in technology, healthcare IT, and financial services.
How many technical manager jobs are remote?
About 31% of technical manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, making it one of the more flexible leadership roles in the market. Engineering management and infrastructure-focused roles tend to have the highest remote availability, while manufacturing and hardware-adjacent positions are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a technical manager?
Most technical managers move into the role from a senior individual contributor position, typically after demonstrating informal leadership on projects or mentoring junior engineers. Building credibility means owning a cross-team initiative end-to-end, volunteering to run retrospectives or planning cycles, and developing your ability to give performance feedback. Some organizations offer internal rotations into engineering leads roles, which are the most direct path.
Can you get a technical manager job with limited management experience?
Yes, but you need to reframe the experience you do have. Hiring managers at smaller companies or startups routinely consider candidates whose management came through leading a project team, onboarding contractors, or acting as an informal team lead without the title. Highlight any situation where you set direction for others, resolved a team conflict, or coordinated delivery across functions, and be explicit about what you learned from it.
What does the technical manager interview process look like?
Most technical manager interview processes include an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on leadership philosophy and past team situations, a technical round or system design discussion to validate your engineering credibility, and a behavioral panel with cross-functional partners. Some companies add a take-home case involving a resourcing or prioritization decision. Final rounds often include a conversation with a director or VP about strategic fit and vision for the team.
Where can I find and apply to technical manager jobs?
You can find and apply to technical manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing. Openings are updated regularly, so checking back frequently gives you the best chance of catching new postings as they appear.
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