Qatar, Doha
Fulltime: 45 hrs a week
Experience: > 10 Years
Education Level: Academic Bachelor
Conventional Energy
Closing: August 24, 2025

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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

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