Senior Digital Drilling Solutions Lead

Tanqeeb

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 300,000 - 540,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Tanqeeb is seeking an experienced Senior Digital Drilling Solutions Consultant to support the delivery of digital drilling, well engineering, and drilling performance initiatives for a major oil and gas operator in the United Arab Emirates.

The role combines drilling domain expertise with applications knowledge, data management, and well planning workflows to improve decision-making, data quality, and operational efficiency across the well lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related engineering or software field.
  • 8+ years in oil and gas with drilling experience.
  • Experience with drilling software, digital drilling tech, or well planning solutions.
  • Strong data management and performance monitoring knowledge.

Responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise for digital drilling and well engineering solutions.
  • Support the implementation, enhancement, and adoption of drilling and well planning technologies.
  • Work with drilling teams to improve planning, execution, and post-well analysis workflows.
  • Support the management, integration, and governance of drilling and well data.
  • Analyze operational drilling performance and identify opportunities for optimization and efficiency gains.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including drilling, geology, subsurface, completions, IT, and software development teams.
  • Translate business requirements into functional specifications and technical solutions.
  • Support application configuration, deployments, testing, and user acceptance activities.
  • Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and stakeholder engagement activities.
  • Contribute to digital transformation and operational excellence initiatives.
  • Develop reports, dashboards, workflows, and recommendations that support data-driven decision making.
  • Support integration between drilling applications, databases, reporting platforms, and real-time data systems.

Skills

Drilling domain expertise
Data management
Well planning workflows
Performance optimization
Stakeholder management
Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline

Tools

Drilling software platforms
WITSML and real-time drilling data systems
Data governance platforms

Job description

Tanqeeb is seeking an experienced Senior Digital Drilling Solutions Consultant to support the delivery of digital drilling, well engineering, and drilling performance initiatives for a major oil and gas operator in the United Arab Emirates.

The role combines drilling domain expertise with applications knowledge, data management, and well planning workflows to improve decision-making, data quality, and operational efficiency across the well lifecycle.

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