We are looking for a Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Performance Specialistfor one of our clients with the following details:

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 31-Jul-2027

Location: Doha, Qatar

Work status: Resident, Single

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field


• 10+ years of experience in Oil and Gas industry


• 5+ years of experience in application portfolio management or related role


• Strong knowledge of license optimization tools and license management


• Strong experience in petroleum & Corporate applications governance and performance management


• Excellent leadership & communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders


• Intermediate skills in planning and coordination


• Knowledge of IT governance and best practices related to application management


• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• Strong English proficiency both spoken and written

ACTIVITIES 

• Develops and maintains an understanding of the company's business processes and systems, and identifies opportunities to improve and optimize them

Applications portfolio:

• Manages the Petroleum & Corporate applications portfolio, including assessing the adoption of applications, and identifying opportunities for optimization and consolidation


• Custodian of the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions application portfolio


• Leads License Managers to drive portfolio optimization


• Supports, optimizes and manages the Petroleum & Corporate application portfolio


• Keeps the Petroleum & Corporate applications portfolio/CMDB up to date, by conducting regular reviews of the applications portfolio


• Collaborate with the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Leads (business partners) in defining and maintaining the applications portfolio strategy and roadmap


• Monitors industry trends and best practices related to application portfolio management, and applies them to improve the company's application management practices

License Management:

• Runs regular license usage reviews, and provides recommendations of optimization opportunities


• Tracks license (and contracts) expiry dates on a regular basis


• Lead License Managers to drive license optimization


• Collaborates with Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Leads (business partners), license managers to drive portfolio optimization efforts, including application rationalization, consolidation, and retirement


• Builds license optimization Strategies


• Oversee the intricacies of license optimization tools, maximizing efficiency and compliance.

Application Performance:

• Monitors applications performance


• Monitors applications availability


• Identifies low user adopted applications


• Identifies key repetitive issues of applications

License Management Framework:

• Collaborates with Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Leads (business partners), lead license managers, and interface with C&P to implement the framework (CMS Ref. GM-NOC-PAC-001)


• Custodian of the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions license management framework


• Develops and maintains documentation related to the applications portfolio and license management framework


• Adheres to the controls of the license management framework


• Educates users with license management process / best practices

Technical Expertise:

• Custodian & SME of the license management tool


• Provides Level 3 Expertise Support for the License Management Tool


• Runs regular upgrades of the license management tool


• Custodian & SME of the 4 licenses servers & 2 Core servers that hosts all Petroleum & Corporate Solutions key licenses


• Runs regular upgrades of the licenses servers


• Sets up required scope/data for the licenses usage dashboards


• Collects business users utilization behavior and adjust license optimizer accordingly


• Creates and maintaining up-to-date records of documentation such as interface visuals, service matrix, service catalogue, SOP, etc.

Vendor Management:

• Liaise with external vendors of the applications


• Discuss with vendors options of licenses optimization

Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Landscape

• Custodian of the Petroleum & Corporate solutions Architecture landscape


• Keeps the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Landscape always up-to-date


• Identifies applications’ dependencies, interfaces, and setup

Contracts & Procurement Management:

• Contributes to the contract renewals process


• Assess license usage reports before C&P kickoff


• Stage gate check before approval of purchase requests

Planning & Collaboration:

• Interfaces with Infrastructure & Support team, InfoSec team, data Management, and CAB board: to understand yearly workplans, communicates, and follows up


• Collaborates closely with the internal IS departments, especially Infrastructure and Support.


• Leading License Managers


• Collaborates with Leads of surface, Subsurface & Corporate


• Manages technical projects in the area of expertise

Cyber Security Interface:

• Ensures Information Security Policy Adherence within Petroleum & Corporate solutions


• Password Management Custodian


• Follows up on compliance of applications with security controls (minimize vulnerabilities, respect end of life, end of support)

Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Budget:

• Contributes to the budget forecast cycles,


• Contributes to the cost efficiency (savings) programs


• Tracks expenses (of software),


• Identifies key trends of spend


• Identifies cost savings opportunities