IT Advisor Petrophysical Data Management

About this role

Oxy  produces ,  markets and transports  oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in  carbon management  to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit  Oxy

Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.

The IT Advisor for Petrophysical & Borehole Data Management will lead enterprise initiatives focused on the management, migration, integration, governance, and business adoption of petrophysical and borehole data solutions. This role will be centered on Landmark DecisionSpace®365 Borehole Data Management (BHDM), DSIF-based deployment architecture, cloud-hosted subsurface data platforms, and the enablement of high-quality well log, core, and related subsurface data for technical users across the business.

This position will serve as a senior technical advisor and engagement lead between business users, petrophysicists, geoscientists, data managers, IT, cloud architecture teams, vendors, and project stakeholders. The role will help drive adoption of modern borehole data management workflows, promote the value of centralized and governed petrophysical data, and ensure that subsurface data is searchable, trusted, accessible, and usable across interpretation, modeling, analytics, and operational workflows.

The ideal candidate will combine deep petrophysical data management expertise with practical experience in BHDM / DSIF products, cloud architecture, data migration, quality control, metadata governance, project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and change management. The position requires someone who can translate business needs into actionable technical requirements, guide implementation teams, engage end users, and promote the work being delivered across the organization.

Key Responsibilities • Lead and advise on enterprise petrophysical and borehole data management initiatives, with emphasis on BHDM, DSIF, Recall, iPoint, well log repositories, core data, SCAL data, and related subsurface datasets. • Partner with business users, petrophysicists, geoscientists, data managers, petro/geo techs, software developers, IT, cloud teams, and vendor resources to define requirements, validate workflows, and deliver fit-for-purpose data management solutions. • Serve as a key liaison between technical delivery teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that data management projects align with asset needs, subsurface workflows, and enterprise data standards. • Support the deployment, configuration, testing, and operational readiness of BHDM and DSIF-based solutions in cloud-hosted environments. • Provide subject matter expertise for cloud architecture discussions related to BHDM / DSIF deployment, including AWS tenant configuration, networking, identity integration, security controls, logging, scalability, performance, and operating model considerations. • Lead or contribute to data migration efforts from legacy systems such as Recall, iPoint, shared repositories, and other borehole data sources into a modern BHDM environment. • Define, implement, and improve data ingestion workflows for wireline logs, cased-hole logs, open-hole logs, MWD/LWD data, core data, SCAL data, imagery, documents, and associated metadata. • Establish and maintain quality control workflows for petrophysical datasets, including validation of headers, curves, units, mnemonics, depth references, data gaps, null values, spikes, flat sections, saturation effects, and metadata completeness. • Develop and promote business rules, technical assurance protocols, data standards, and governance practices that ensure borehole data integrity, lineage, traceability, and long-term usability. • Support automated ingestion, validation, approval, publication, search, visualization, export, and transfer workflows for borehole data. • Work with business users to identify pain points, gather feedback, document requirements, prioritize enhancements, and promote adoption of new data management tools and workflows. • Create and deliver presentations, workflow demonstrations, training materials, technical documentation, project updates, and communications that explain the value of BHDM / DSIF capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Help promote the work of the data management organization by communicating project progress, business value, data quality improvements, efficiency gains, and future roadmap opportunities. • Lead user acceptance testing, workflow validation, issue resolution, and transition-to-operations activities in partnership with business and technical teams. • Support project planning, risk management, milestone tracking, vendor coordination, dependency management, and stakeholder reporting for complex data management initiatives. • Troubleshoot data ingestion, access, migration, metadata, quality, search, visualization, export, and user workflow issues. • Ensure solutions comply with enterprise data governance, cybersecurity, access control, entitlement, and records retention requirements. • Remain current with evolving technologies in petrophysical data management, borehole data repositories, cloud platforms, AI/ML, analytics, automation, and subsurface digital transformation.

Technical Skills & Experience • 10+ years of experience in petrophysical data management, borehole data management, subsurface data management, geoscience data systems, or related disciplines. • Deep understanding of petrophysical and borehole data types, including open-hole logs, cased-hole logs, MWD, LWD, image logs, core data,

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