Lead Trading IT - Build Our Future Trading Backbone

Do you want to help build our future trading IT backbone?

To strengthen our Trading IT capabilities and enable the next stage of our business evolution, we are establishing the role of Lead Trading IT. As the first priority, this role will lead a comprehensive IT transformation project focused on designing and delivering the future Trading Core IT Stack.

This will be a core contribution to our DLG group-wide program ReGen to modernize how we run our business, improving competitiveness and strengthening our commercial muscles on a global scale.

As Lead Trading IT you will play a pivotal role in a company-wide transformation program—overseeing trade execution and capture systems, data and analytics platforms, and the architectural foundation that enables future trading capabilities. You will act as the critical interface between business strategy and technology execution, ensuring delivery of robust, scalable, and future-ready IT solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and steer the overall Trading IT strategy, prioritizing initiatives to balance competing business needs

• Lead Trading IT across commodity trading specific solutions (e.g., wheat, soy, oil & gas, power) and overarching platforms (e.g., ERP) and act as a strategic sparring partner to key trading leads by translating business objectives into actionable technical requirements

• Build, lead and develop a team of skilled trading IT professionals

• Define technology and solution archetypes for the Trading IT north star architecture and make decisions on vendor and solution selection processes

• Create and maintain technology roadmaps across all relevant software systems, ensuring alignment with functional plans

• Define foundational data architecture and governance requirements; collaborate with the Data Manager to ensure data availability, quality, and accessibility

• Initiate, plan and manage projects, oversee delivery and coordinate with all internal stakeholders and external implementation partners to ensure solution delivery in time, quality and budget.

• Ensure stable, ongoing operations of the future Trading IT landscape
  
  

KPIs and Success Criteria

• Enablement of business value in line with our ReGen program (including trade capture solutions)

• Milestone delivery for ReGen and future programs

• Establishment of a cross-regional and cross-commodity trading IT function with a clear mandate and governance
  
  

What we are looking for

• Proven experience (8+ years) in IT project management in commodity trading solutions and enterprise architecture with multi-year experience in a leadership role

• Deep understanding of trading systems and IT stack integration

• Proven and up to date understanding of modern data architecture components including Azure cloud platform solutions

• Demonstrated ability to successfully drive cross-functional programs with internal and external partners

• Strong skills in stakeholder management and technical decision facilitation

• A structured, collaborative, and delivery-focused mindset

• Flexibility to travel to other work locations such as Fredericia, Denmark; Flensburg or Osterrönfeld, Germany  
  
  

You will report to the Head of Business Applications and be based in Fredericia, Denmark; Flensburg or Osterrönfeld, Germany  

Apply Now

If you are passionate about shaping the future of trading IT, aligning technology with business ambition, and enabling digital execution at scale, we want to hear from you. For questions about the position, feel free to contact Volker Schmid, Head of Business Applications at volkerschmid@dlg.dk. Please submit your application no later than 7 September.