ACCOUNTABILITIES

Technical role responsible for applying data Data Governance controls on NOC Data Governance solutions, for data repositories and Digital Data Platform ensuring data policies, business rules, data profiling, lineage and quality monitoring are in place to improve the overall data and information governance maturity in NOC using Informatica Data Governance tools (Informatica Axon, EDC, IDQ). Maintain close alignment with business data governance roles, data architecture, data security and overall IS strategy.

Continuous collaboration with the various NOC business entities to ensure the data governance practices and workflows are design and implemented on data repositories (e.g. Data Quality).

JOB DIMENSIONS

All NOC Enterprises Data (structured and unstructured) for more than 100 Data Domains, 650 Data Families and 100 Data Sources

Data governance for data hosted on premise and cloud (i.e., DDP)

Enterprise data governance and associated enterprise tools to manage data governance

Alignment with IS SMEs, Data Owners and Data Stewards

Oil and Gas data for Production petroleum operations and subsurface data

Data and Information Governance and Master Data Management

Support data and information security and controls implementation

ACTIVITIES

Define and implement data governance processes, practices and rules as defined by data owners and steward on Informatica Axon workflows

Perform EDC resource creation and extraction of core application metadata and profiling metadata, business term association, attribute management, data domains, rules, profiling information and troubleshooting, and performance tuning in EDC.

Analysis business data and propose data quality rules to the business then implement the selected/validated rules

Work with stakeholders to identify trusted source, owner and steward for each of the key data elements (KDE), and define business definition and business rules.

Execute standard onboarding of technical and business metadata into the Informatica EDC and Axon, ensuring the population of data lineage and linkage between the technical and business metadata

Use data profiling and Informatica EDC/IDQ to discover patterns and tasks that can be automated, and Identify ways to improve data reliability, performance, efficiency and quality

Evaluate and recommend innovative solutions to mature NOC’s data operations and overall data governance

Participate in development and implementation of enterprise metadata standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure quality metadata and support for ongoing data governance.

Capture data lineage and data flow between systems, defining the transformation that data are subject to while moving between systems in accordance with App and Data IS SMEs.

Support the definition and implement data governance polices, standards, requirements and measurement as well as setup monitoring for data governance (e.g. data quality)

Build and maintain effective working relationships with key entities and stakeholders in NOC and other parties as needed.

Support NOC to define new requirements, participating in End user meetings to derive and define the business requirement, propose cost effective solutions for data governance and familiarize the team with the requirements, specifications, design targets & techniques to support task performance and delivery.

Review & Propose industry best tools & technology for ever changing business rules and data set from data governance point of view, Conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) with new tools & technologies to derive convincing benchmarks and deliver value-based solution in Quick time.

Coordinate between IS Architect and Data Architect to ensure Data governance principles and rules are considered

Support definition and maintenance of data and metadata catalogue, dictionaries, business user glossaries on relative tools leverage Oil and Gas standard practices

Launch data quality improvement actions linked to prioritized functionalities

CONTEXT & ENVIRONMENT

North Oil Company (NOC) Information Solutions (IS) supports various office places as well as onshore and offshore installations

Al Shaheen Oil Field (ALS) involves complex control systems requiring high availability and reliability for business continuity

North Oil Company (NOC) is a newly setup organization operating a giant brown field which requires Information Solutions (IS) as well as the other support functions to quickly develop the required maturity.

As a result of the transition from MOQ to NOC there is a large legacy of data to be organized and protected

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Information Management or Computer Science or an engineering/business related equivalent.

Deep experience in petroleum operations data and good understanding of the related data sources

Full understanding of Data Governance concepts (e.g. datalogging, profiling, ownership/stewardship, Data Quality, Data Catalog, ..etc)

Certification and strong technical and analytical skills, as well as hands-on experience with Informatica data governance tools (Axon, IDQ, EDC)

Deep technical experience in creating workflows Informatica Axon, implement policies, guidelines, tools, metrics, and standards for managing metadata.

Deep technical experience eon integrating Informatica EDC/IDQ with Axon.

Deep technical experience in Metadata Extraction & build lineage among assets.

Deep technical experience in implementing data quality rules using Informatica DQ

Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, testing and administrating Informatica data governance tools.

Experience in database technologies and techniques (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, …etc)

Experience establishing master data and reference data for domain entities using Informatica MDM.

Able to make quick decisions and solve technical problems to provide an efficient environment for project implementation.

Awareness of data integration patterns, data modeling and data architecture

Ability to work in Agile environment, and to regularly learn and adopt new technology

Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and work with diverse project teams

5 years of experience in Data and Information Management/Governance for Oil and Gas Upstream operations is an advantage.

5+ years of experience in Data Governance Projects using Informatica tools.

Fluent English both spoken and written