Data Management Specialist; UAEN

JOB PURPOSE

The Data Management Specialist oversees the integrity, lifecycle, governance, and effective use of SNOC’s upstream technical and geospatial data. The role manages physical sample inventories and digital E&P datasets across multiple software platforms, maintaining quality-controlled spatial frameworks, comprehensive metadata, and version control to support cross-functional technical teams, improve data accessibility, and advance upstream digital workflows.

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

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Geology, Geophysics, Earth Sciences, Data Management, Geomatics, GIS, or a related technical discipline.
• Equivalent professional experience in an upstream data management role will also be considered in the absence of a degree.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in the upstream petroleum industry, with direct hands‑on responsibility for upstream data management.

• Practical experience across the full data lifecycle in an upstream environment: receipt, cataloguing, QC, storage, retrieval, and sharing of technical datasets.
• Practical experience in managing physical and digital E&P libraries, including off‑site storage providers and tape transcription workflows.
• Strong understanding of upstream data governance, including metadata standards, data ownership, access control, version control, data lineage, and quality assurance.
• Familiarity with seismic data formats (2D/3D datasets, SEGY/SEGD handling) and with well log digitisation and G&G data vectorisation.
• Knowledge of partner data management protocols and joint‑venture data‑sharing practices common among national and international upstream operators.
• Applied knowledge of GIS tools, geodetic data workflows, coordinate reference systems, and spatial data quality control principles