Senior Area Facing Data Manager

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Technology

Technology

IT&S Group

IT&S Group / Subsurface Group (confirm with Reward)

Senior Area Facing Data Manager (AFDM) – Level H

Level H – confirm banding with Reward prior to posting

Houston, Texas, United States of America

Intermediate to Senior

Gulf of America (GoA) Exploration

GoA Exploration leadership and subsurface community;
Geophysics and Geology Domain Team leads, Pune or equivalent experience;
Lead AFDMs and the Western Hemisphere AFDM team;
Level I AFDMs; data management vendors

As our Area Facing Data Manager for Gulf of America (GoA) Exploration, you’ll lead the data relationship for one of bp’s most significant exploration portfolios. You’ll set the data strategy for the asset, hold the pipeline of work, and be the person the business trusts when a seismic positioning or data quality question really matters.

This is still a hands‑on role – you’ll be the one who solves the problems that can’t be passed on. But it comes with real autonomy. You’ll run your portfolio without day‑to‑day supervision, represent Digital Data Management directly to GoA Exploration leadership, lead improvement projects that span several teams, and bring on the AFDMs coming up behind you.

• Lead the data relationship for GoA Exploration – the senior point of contact, and where the hard or contested requests land.
• Set and deliver the data strategy for the asset, lined up with the business work programme, and get the people who matter behind it.
• Find where data gaps are costing the business, size the problem, and make the case for fixing it.
• Represent Digital Data Management to GoA Exploration leadership, domain leads and delivery leads, including at governance forums and planning sessions.
• Make the priority calls when demand outstrips capacity – and be able to explain and defend them. Supervise how your portfolio is performing and report the impact to Lead AFDMs.
• Develop and apply data standards, give to how we set standards across the Western Hemisphere, and own training and onboarding for the subsurface community.
• Lead project set‑up, loading campaigns and data handover for exploration wells and farm‑in/farm‑out evaluations.

• Lead the health of the 2D and 3D seismic estate across Petrel, Studio and our GoA repositories – rolling your sleeves up on the sophisticated loads yourself.
• Be the technical authority on trace headers and geometry – byte locations, CDP X/Y assignment, coordinate scalars, sample intervals and trace length. You’ll take the cases' nobody else can crack, then write up the fix so it’s solved for good.
• Own CRS assurance for the portfolio, and hold the final call on whether data are correctly positioned before it goes to interpreters.
• Set the standards for survey geometries, volume realisations and depth/time settings, and review what the domain teams deliver against them.
• Assure the quality of well data across the portfolio, and handle the sophisticated or high‑priority loading and remediation personally.
• Define the data quality rules, lead the defect backlog, and…