We are looking for a Petroleum & Corporate Solutions Performance Specialist for one of our clients with the following details:

Location: Doha, onshore

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 31-Jul-2027

Work status: Single, residential

Qualification and Experience Required:

• 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

Activities

• 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-company-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

If Interested Kindly apply.