Introduction

  • The Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Performance Specialist is responsible for overseeing, managing, optimizing, governing & advancing the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions applications and portfolio.
  • This includes tracking the application lifecycle, identifying opportunities for optimization and consolidation and interfacing with DBS internal teams.
  • They will work closely with the Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Leads (business partners) to understand business needs, provide necessary information to them, and collaborate to drive applications governance & performance optimization efforts.

What are you going to do 

  • 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

Essential skills and knowledge

  • 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

What we offer 

  • Salary:
    • Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
  • Work Schedule:
    • 8 Hours / 5 Days
  • Duration:
    • 31-Jul-2027, with possible extension
  • Location:
    • Qatar

Are you the perfect match for this vacancy? Apply in 5 minutes and let's get in touch!

your-application-process[1]

Process of your application

Application process & contact

We will now begin examining your application: We will take a close look at your application documents and ask you for additional information if necessary. If your qualifications match our requirements, we will invite you to meet us for the first time.

Project discussion with our customer

If the introductory meeting goes well for you and us, we will arrange a meeting with the customer who has the perfect project for you. This gives you the opportunity to find out more about the customer and the project.

The decision

If you enjoyed the project discussion and the customer is also convinced of your expertise, we will ask you the final and decisive question: Do you want to get started at Brunel?

Introductory conversation with Brunel

In an introductory meeting, we would like to find out more about your interests, ambitions and professional developments. At the same time, we report on working at Brunel and provide information about all career opportunities and prospects.

Welcome to Brunel

Now great times are beginning! With Brunel you have countless opportunities to help shape technological progress. You decide how your career path goes. We support you in every phase of your career. You always have security behind you: Brunel!