Operations Data Analyst

Job Summary A Data Analyst supporting production and facilities operations is primarily responsible for leading projects to produce data driven insights and developing business workflows for the engineering teams and other stakeholders across the organization. A successful candidate will actively seek out and generate new and innovative ways to retrieve, visualize, capture, and analyze data across a variety of engineering, planning, and financial data sources.

• Collaborates with varying levels of petrotechnical professionals, field personnel, financial professionals, and management to effectively gather data/reporting requirements and build complex datasets, visualizations, and analytical tools
• Discovers and troubleshoots data issues across systems and drives issues to resolution.
• Owns, maintains, and enhances critical business intelligence tools in Spotfire, Power BI, and Databricks.
• Develops and maintains engineering focused business processes through AI-augmented development using Cursor and Databricks.
• Leverages automation and AI tools to streamline processes, automate manual workflows, and create scalable, enterprise solutions.
• Develops data capture processes alongside business owners to support analytical efforts.
• Uses SQL to retrieve data from systems, create integrated datasets using CTEs and/or subqueries, and create data tables and views within Databricks.
• Uses Spotfire, Power BI, and Databricks to enhance existing projects and create new projects using data from a variety of sources across the enterprise.
• Other duties as assigned

• Strong understanding of E&P operations, with in depth knowledge of production and facilities.
• Problem solver, capable of anticipating engineering requirements and proactively recommending solutions and data driven insights.
• Self-starter, with ability to work as part of a team or individually.
• Understand the data models of Continental’s primary data sources including Well View, Site View, Pro Count, Aries, SAP, Planning Analytics, eGIS.
• Understand basic data modeling and data integration principles and techniques.
• Detail oriented with ability to organize and synthesize large amounts of data to generate executive-level quality presentations in an efficient manner.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to quickly adapt and exemplify flexibility around process changes and shifting priorities.

• High school diploma (or GED).
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in the oil and gas industry working as a Data Analyst, Engineering Tech, Engineering Specialist, Business Analyst, or other operationally focused role.
• Intermediate skills within BI software and data platforms, with a strong understanding of complex data ingestion, manipulation, and basic scripting within the software.
• Intermediate to advanced skills within SQL with the ability to retrieve data from relational databases, create integrated datasets using CTEs and/or subqueries, and create data tables and views within Databricks.
• An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Economics or related degree.
• Understanding of production operations, oil and gas financial processes, and economic evaluation.
• Prior experience working with Databricks, Snowflake, or other data platform.
• Prior experience with AI-native code editors, such as Cursor or Claude Code.
• Basic coding skills in Python or R.

• Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.
• Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.

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