The Job
The Product Steward assists Geoscientists and Engineers by providing support for Tier 2 technical applications and secondary support of Tier 1 applications.
Activities and Responsibilities include:
User Support for Tier 2 technical applications
- Troubleshoot and coordinate the resolution of application problems/bugs and enhancements
- Monitor problem management queues, delegate and pick up appropriate request tickets.
- Coordinate problem resolution with appropriate internal resource or vendor.
- Participate in incident management processes such as incident assessment and facilitation.
- Create and update application solution support documentation and post a central repository.
- Application delivery
- Create application test plans and perform and coordinate application testing with business or IT experts.
- Create or update documents such as application release notes and distribute to end users
Secondary support for Tier 1 or Tier 2 technical applications
- Training Material Development
- Create and update application training documentation.
- Create application CBT (computer-based training) modules.
- Misc.
- Test change processes for all application license upgrades
- Update central repository of application specific documentation
The Person
- Degree in IT or Engineering related curriculum, or equivalent work experience
- Communicate clearly and concisely
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Ability to correctly prioritize activities and manage time
- Work effectively with distributed teams
2-5 years
experience in providing Technical Support
and/or Operations in multiple platform of
Unix (IBM AIX, HPUX and SUN Solaris).
Technical Skills:
- Familiarity with technical applications used in the Upstream Oil and Gas industry, subsurface data sources and data flows (highly desired; not required)
- Basic knowledge of application deployment and delivery process
- Basic knowledge of application lifecycle management processes
- Competent in application testing and quality assurance requirements, methodologies, processes and practices
- Competent in Problem Management Processes and Change Management Processes
Experience with any of the applications below desired but not required:
- Petrel
- Geoframe
- Hysys
- Oil Field Manager (OFM)
- Eclipse
- SKM Powertools
- Pipephase
- PEEP
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