Data Manager (Wells)

Location

Staines upon Thames, Surrey | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of  Data Manager (Wells).

This Data Manager (Wells) role provides the opportunity for someone with strong data and digital skills combined with oil and gas experience to assist our client in creating quality EDM data records that support improved decision making. We are looking for someone who is passionate about the power of data to inform critical business decisions and energized by the opportunity to improve data quality and simplify existing processes.

Role Overview

A Data Manager with experience working with Wells data is required to improve the user confidence when interacting with Wells Engineering data. This will involve improving data stewardship, data completeness, data quality and data management practices. Specific activities will include:

• Act as a technical expert in the Landmark EDM data management and workflows, working with data managers to continuously improve the quality of data management work.
• Evaluate the operational well data and resolve quality issues.
• Automate the data management activities including data QC, data quality and data clean-up.
• Collaborate with others to enhance integration of well data with other applications.
• Work with the end users to enhance their effectiveness in working with the data and the data workflows.
• Prepare, refine and implement good data standards and practices.

Requirements

Required Skills

• Experience with Well Planning and Well Operations including knowledge of how data is generated, manipulated and used.
• Data management expertise in Landmark EDM
• Data Analysis and manipulation capabilities to identify, QC, compare and clean data.
• Demonstrated ability to work with end users to help build data awareness and efficiency.
• Passion for improvement of existing processes to enhance safety, quality and performance.
• Understanding of Data Management practices, standards and governance
• Proficiency with Power BI, Power Automate, and SQL
• Experience working in a team that uses Agile approaches: Kanban, Scrum, etc.

Desired Skills

• Deep Data Management experience related to data standards, data schemas, and data quality.
• Understanding of data ingestion practices and the ability to communicate with Data Engineers and Architects.
• Familiarity with API design and development.
• Proficient in writing Python scripts.
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills.
• Track record of good data security and data governance practices.
• Awareness of OSDU and Energistics would be helpful.

Qualifications

• BS in a Technical Discipline, e.g. Engineering, Geoscience, Computer Science, Software engineering, or related field.

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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