Data Management Specialist

About the role

The Data Management Specialist is responsible for the integrity, lifecycle, governance and effective use of SNOC’s upstream technical and geospatial data. You will support cross‑functional technical teams by maintaining high‑quality spatial frameworks, comprehensive metadata and version‑controlled datasets.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain the corporate E&P data classification system, taxonomy and master catalogue for physical and digital upstream datasets.
• Govern the full technical data lifecycle – receipt, indexing, quality control, archiving and secure sharing of geological, geophysical, seismic, well, reservoir, production and physical sample data.
• Validate and QC GIS and spatial datasets to ensure alignment with WGS84 and company coordinate reference systems.
• Manage corporate well databases, including headers, deviations, formation data and histories, and integrate them with geoscience platforms.
• Coordinate with external vendors and data contractors on archiving, digitisation, tape transcription and delivery projects.
• Enforce data governance workflows, user access rights, secure data exchange tracking and naming conventions.
• Drive digital transformation through data automation frameworks, improved system accessibility and cross‑departmental workflow integration.
• Provide day‑to‑day user support, platform guidance and technical database training to multidisciplinary teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Geology, Geophysics, Earth Sciences, Data Management, Geomatics, GIS or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 7 + years of hands‑on upstream petroleum data management experience.
• Proven experience across the full data lifecycle in an upstream environment.
• Strong understanding of upstream data governance, metadata standards, data ownership, access control, version control and data lineage.

Required skills

• GIS tools and spatial data quality‑control principles.
• Coordinate reference systems (WGS84) and geodetic workflows.
• Seismic data formats (SEGY/SEGD) handling.
• Well‑log digitisation and G&G data vectorisation.
• Data automation frameworks and version‑control systems.
• Metadata management and data governance workflows.