Principal Specialist, Exploration & Project Development & Engineering Data Domain
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Role Overview
The role shapes the strategic management, governance, and value realization of Exploration and PDE data assets.
It ensures subsurface, geological, geophysical, drilling, reservoir, and related technical data are trusted, accessible, secure, and aligned with business priorities.
The position enables data-driven decisions, improves data quality, supports digital initiatives, and strengthens organizational data maturity.
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Why This Role Matters
The role shapes the strategic management, governance, and value realization of Exploration and PDE data assets.
It ensures subsurface, geological, geophysical, drilling, reservoir, and related technical data are trusted, accessible, secure, and aligned with business priorities.
The position enables data-driven decisions, improves data quality, supports digital initiatives, and strengthens organizational data maturity.
Data Domain Strategy & Enablement
- Shape and execute the Exploration & PDE data domain strategy in alignment with enterprise data and digital objectives.
- Establish a scalable data domain framework that improves data accessibility, usability, and business value.
- Prioritize data initiatives supporting exploration, evaluation, and resource development objectives.
Data Governance & Quality
- Strengthen governance practices for data integrity, consistency, ownership, and regulatory compliance.
- Improve data quality through standards, controls, and stewardship processes.
- Govern critical data assets across their lifecycle to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
Data Products & Value Realization
- Lead development and enhancement of data products for operational and strategic decision making.
- Increase adoption of trusted data assets across technical and business functions.
- Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions with measurable business outcomes.
Technical Leadership
- Provide expert guidance on exploration, geological, geophysical, drilling, reservoir, and subsurface data management.
- Influence enterprise data architecture decisions to improve interoperability and domain integration.
- Promote industry-leading practices, technologies, and methodologies across the data ecosystem.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Build partnerships among business functions, digital teams, and external partners to align priorities and outcomes.
- Facilitate decision making through clear data ownership, accountability, and governance structures.
- Strengthen collaboration across domains to improve enterprise-wide data consistency and effectiveness.
Innovation & Improvement
- Accelerate advanced analytics, automation, AI, and digital capabilities through high-quality domain data.
- Identify opportunities to optimize processes, reduce manual effort, and improve data lifecycle efficiency.
- Foster continuous improvement and data-driven performance.
Success Measures
Improve data quality, consistency, and trust across Exploration and PDE data assets.
Increase use of data products for operational and strategic decision making.
Enhance governance compliance, reduce data-related risk, and improve lifecycle management.
Enable faster digital, analytics, and AI initiatives through trusted domain data.
Achieve strong stakeholder satisfaction and clear ownership of critical business data assets.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- A bachelor's degree in geoscience, petroleum engineering, computer science, information systems, data management, or a related discipline is required.
- The role requires 10–15 years of relevant experience in exploration, subsurface, petroleum development, data management, or digital transformation.
- Required experience includes data governance, data domains, master data, enterprise data management frameworks, cross-functional data initiatives, and business-focused data solutions.
- Experience in large-scale energy, mining, natural resources, or industrial organizations is required.
Skills That Matter
- Exploration and subsurface data management.
- Petroleum Development & Evaluation data.
- Data governance, stewardship, architecture, modeling, quality, products, and lifecycle management.
- Strategic planning, digital transformation, and cross-functional delivery.
- The provided source description ends during the Data Product Delivery skills list.
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