Subsurface Applications Advisor

**The Role**:
The role has to provide subsurface domain expertise and understanding of the upstream value chain (exploration, development, production) workflows, data management and IT processes. It is a genuine hybrid of upstream and IT generalist position, providing growth opportunities and extensive stakeholder and interface management.

**Accountabilities**:

- Co-create OSDU migration plans; drive their execution;
- Contribute/Advise to the subsurface apps portfolio strategy (Geology, Petrophysics, Geomechanics, Reservoir Engineering);
- Proactively gather business requirements and translate them into well-written proposals with clear acceptance criteria to enable effective delivery through regular refinement and prioritization;
- Resolve any unclarities with the program manager and business stakeholders;
- Assess solutions. Invite stakeholders into the review session to ask for feedback and steer. Ensure the product delivered is of sufficient quality to deploy;
- Ensure products are documented from IT (Information Technology) and user perspectives;
- Actively co-lead and contribute to programs aiming at user behaviour changes, thus, contributing to cost rationalization programs globally;
- Work closely with the workflow consultants to ensure a seamless deployment of the product into the business;
- Collaborate with TAP (Technical Advisory Panel) members, PTEs/SMEs (Subject Matter Expert), R&D (Research & Development) teams, IT support bodies, Portfolio Management and business users on strategy and innovation, contributing ideas;
- Build and maintain effective relations with 3rd party providers of the software platforms;
- Provide training and consultancy to business users;
- Work in close collaboration with PetroSigns teams to find synergies;
- Onboard emerging digital products in the subsurface apps portfolio, including forecasting the consequences on workflows and license management;
- Build solutions that are useful to the end-users, integrated across subsurface workflows, and scalable within the existing software landscape (OSDU, workhorse apps: PetroSigns, Techlog, Petrel, Dynamo, etc.);
- Provide adequate maintenance and support organization for the developed products, working closely with 1st line support and 3rd line support (dev teams) while acting as 2nd line support;
- Ensure that the subsurface workflows wrt OSDU/Cloud are adequately documented and communicated to portfolio managers, global process owner representatives and further stakeholders;
- Understand and promote clear business cases for the use of cloud/OSDU technologies and increase, through appropriate engagement, the appetite for selected technologies to be developed or enhanced and, if proven valuable to Shell, to be prototyped, piloted and deployed;
- Develop and maintain effective personal networks with teams of OSDU and businesses;
- Keep abreast of new developments/technologies;
- Identify and integrate opportunities to improve workflows and tools using digitalization concepts.

**Dimensions**:
The Subsurface Applications Advisor provides subsurface expertise and coordinates between several interfaces involved in the OSDU migration. In addition, s/he actively contributes to the proof of concepts and various projects aiming at portfolio rationalization involving OSDU migration. S/he will work closely with SMT, IDT-SOM and Competence Center, OSDU, Technical Data Management and Workflow, Portfolio Management, discipline leadership, SOVs, JV/NOVs. S/he will report to the Development Manager SLAM, who is responsible for the higher-level vision and strategy of the products/migration journey.

**Skills and Requirements**:
The Subsurface Applications Advisor has a hybrid subsurface-engineer, and IT profile with the following skills and experience:

- A thorough understanding of Shell subsurface processes, including the available tools and technical data management standards and strategies
- Understand the OSDU concept from domain and IT technical perspective
- Hands-on experience with subsurface data acquisition, interpretation software portfolio and workflows across the upstream value chain.
- Stakeholder management, influencing skills and ability to work across multiple business areas.
- Project management, requirements analysis and prioritization of enhancements internally and with external parties.
- Business analysis skills to understand what users and stakeholders need, assess business value and create win-win situations.
- Ability to break high-level requirements up into smaller sub-requirements and turn these into testable requirements using acceptance criteria and tests.
- Ability to recognize and incorporate non-functional requirements such as performance and scalability.
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum lifecycle process and role definitions.
- Ability to read and understand high-level architecture documents.
- Preferably some experience or exposure to IT.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making s