Subsurface Applications Advisor - Bengaluru, India - Shell

Shell

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

The Role:

The role has to provide subsurface domain expertise and understanding of the upstream value chain (exploration, development, production) workflows, data management and IT processes.

It is a genuine hybrid of upstream and IT generalist position, providing growth opportunities and extensive stakeholder and interface management.

Accountabilities:

Cocreate OSDU migration plans; drive their execution;
Contribute/Advise to the subsurface apps portfolio strategy (Geology, Petrophysics, Geomechanics, Reservoir Engineering);
Proactively gather business requirements and translate them into wellwritten proposals with clear acceptance criteria to enable effective delivery through regular refinement and prioritization;
Resolve any unclarities with the program manager and business stakeholders;
Assess solutions. Invite stakeholders into the review session to ask for feedback and steer. Ensure the product delivered is of sufficient quality to deploy;
Ensure products are documented from IT (Information Technology) and user perspectives;
Actively colead and contribute to programs aiming at user behaviour changes, thus, contributing to cost rationalization programs globally;
Work closely with the workflow consultants to ensure a seamless deployment of the product into the business;
Collaborate with TAP (Technical Advisory Panel) members, PTEs/SMEs (Subject Matter Expert), R&D (Research & Development) teams, IT support bodies, Portfolio Management and business users on strategy and innovation, contributing ideas;
Build and maintain effective relations with 3rd party providers of the software platforms;
Provide training and consultancy to business users;
Work in close collaboration with PetroSigns teams to find synergies;
Onboard emerging digital products in the subsurface apps portfolio, including forecasting the consequences on workflows and license management;
Build solutions that are useful to the endusers, integrated across subsurface workflows, and scalable within the existing software landscape (OSDU, workhorse apps: PetroSigns, Techlog, Petrel, Dynamo, etc.);
Provide adequate maintenance and support organization for the developed products, working closely with 1st line support and 3rd line support (dev teams) while acting as 2nd line support;
Ensure that the subsurface workflows wrt OSDU/Cloud are adequately documented and communicated to portfolio managers, global process owner representatives and further stakeholders;
Understand and promote clear business cases for the use of cloud/OSDU technologies and increase, through appropriate engagement, the appetite for selected technologies to be developed or enhanced and, if proven valuable to Shell, to be prototyped, piloted and deployed;
Develop and maintain effective personal networks with teams of OSDU and businesses;
Keep abreast of new developments/technologies;
Identify and integrate opportunities to improve workflows and tools using digitalization concepts.

Dimensions:

The Subsurface Applications Advisor provides subsurface expertise and coordinates between several interfaces involved in the OSDU migration.

In addition, s/he actively contributes to the proof of concepts and various projects aiming at portfolio rationalization involving OSDU migration.

S/he will work closely with SMT, IDT-SOM and Competence Center, OSDU, Technical Data Management and Workflow, Portfolio Management, discipline leadership, SOVs, JV/NOVs.

S/he will report to the Development Manager SLAM, who is responsible for the higher-level vision and strategy of the products/migration journey.

Skills and Requirements:

The Subsurface Applications Advisor has a hybrid subsurface-engineer, and IT profile with the following skills and experience:

A thorough understanding of Shell subsurface processes, including the available tools and technical data management standards and strategies
Understand the OSDU concept from domain and IT technical perspective
Handson experience with subsurface data acquisition, interpretation software portfolio and workflows across the upstream value chain.
Stakeholder management, influencing skills and ability to work across multiple business areas.
Project management, requirements analysis and prioritization of enhancements internally and with external parties.
Business analysis skills to understand what users and stakeholders need, assess business value and create winwin situations.
Ability to break highlevel requirements up into smaller subrequirements and turn these into testable requirements using acceptance criteria and tests.
Ability to recognize and incorporate nonfunctional requirements such as performance and scalability.
Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum lifecycle process and role definitions.
Ability to read and understand highlevel architecture documents.
Preferably some experience or exposure to IT.
Excellent analytical, problem solving and decisionmaking s