Data Steward - Production

About The Role

The Data Steward applies practitioner level knowledge of a business domain to curate and validate accuracy, security and referential integrity of data required to drive compliance, safety and business critical decision making. They are responsible for implementing technical changes and controls across systems of record and communicating planned changes to the data owners. They are responsible for implementing the data requirements to populate systems of record and transpose data between package software, including Input quality checks on received data and providing technical insights into creating, remediating and maintaining data definitions.

What you will deliver
• Act as a custodian of Production data, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and compliance across the organization, prioritising safety and operational efficiency for the business. Your focus areas will include: production data sets, production accounting, forecasting and production optimisation
• Enforce data governance policies, standards, and regulations; participate in improvement of these based on business need.
• Assess, report on and resolve data quality issues through root cause analysis and remediation planning. Ensure that data, documents and models represent the physical reality of our assets.
• Responsible for implementing the data requirements to populate systems of record and transpose data between package software, including Input quality checks on received data
• Work closely with data engineers and business analysts to ensure high-quality, standardized data.
• Support business users by providing guidance on data usage, access, and policies.
• Implement technical changes and controls across systems of record and communicate planned changes to the data owners
• Assist in metadata management, ensuring all critical datasets are properly captured.
• Facilitate collaboration between business and technology teams to improve data literacy and governance.
• Support regulatory and compliance efforts related to data privacy, security, and access control.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

Essential
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM area or equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience in stewardship of production datasets within an operating Oil & Gas organisation
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, master data management principles, policies, and compliance within the wells & subsurface data domain.
• Ability to work with business and technical teams to resolve data quality issues.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Analytical mindset with a strong focus on data accuracy and process improvement.

Desired
• Proficiency in SQL and ability to work with large datasets.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica).