Job title: Technical Data Analyst

Location: Aberdeen

Full Time/Part time: 6-month Initial contract

Permanent/contract role: Contract Role

Travel required: Yes

Industry: Oil & gas

Job description: Our Analytics team are recognised thought-leaders in the Oil & Gas industry, having developed our technologies over the last 3 years. As demand increase, both to optimise our core service lines and work with our external clients, we are seeking an ambitious Technical Data Analyst to join us. You will collaborate with our Analytics Lead, our Operations team and our clients to seek out smart solutions and increase efficiency. You will be initially based in Aberdeen but will be required to travel for client project work

You should be highly analytical, and a natural problem solver working with large, unstructured data volumes from a wide range of vintages.

Essential skills and experience required:

• A data analyst with 1 to 3 years’ experience
• You will have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills using a range of data analysis techniques
• Hands-on analytical experience on data of varying vintages as well as large volumes
• Ability to understand the data landscape of a system
• Ability to present complex ideas to non-technical audiences
• Data Manipulation, wrangling and extraction techniques of unstructured and semi-structured data
• Data Visualisation
• Understanding of typical data formats and relational databases
• Use of/ development in AWS
• Appreciation and awareness of
o SQL
o Python (Pandas, NumPy/SciPy, Scikit learn)
o Front end web development techniques
o Linux/Unix
• The ability to self-learn and proactively seek personal development

Desirable skills and experience (if applicable):

• Understanding of Oil and Gas industry especially subsurface
• Big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other Data Science techniques
• Machine Learning and Automation
• Oil & Gas knowledge would be advantageous

Only applicants who are authorised and can provide evidence to work in the UK will be considered.
We thank all applicants for their interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. This opportunity is open only to candidates eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom.

DataCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Start Date: Immediate

DataCo is currently seeking a candidate to fill a Junior Data Management position as part of their team in the NL. This role would ideally suit a graduate looking for their first role in oil and gas, or someone who has 1-2 years’ experience looking for a fresh challenge. The successful candidate will work alongside the current team providing a key managed service provided to our oil & gas supermajor client.

Role Description
The successful candidate will see themselves working as part of a small project team based offsite in Rijswijk working simultaneously with a team based in Aberdeen. The objective is to create a quality controlled batch of Well data which adheres to the project requirements and client requests.

Essential Education
University Degree, preferably in Geology/Petroleum Geology/Earth Sciences. Any previous experience handling Seismic, Data Loading or Data Processing data would be beneficial.

Experience and Job Requirements
• An understanding of Upstream (Geoscience & Engineering) data types and the complex nature of how the data is obtained, stored, integrated, applied and managed across multiple business functions
• Undergraduate level degree in Petroleum-related discipline or equivalent
• Computer literate with an understanding of databases

Desirable Criteria & Qualifications
• Knowledge of the wireline, MWD and LWD logging tools and their applications
• Cross-discipline knowledge within the subsurface domain (Geology, Geophysics, Reservoir Engineering, Petrophysics, Wells etc.)
• An understanding of the latest technologies and emerging regulatory compliance
• Knowledge of the upstream geoscience and engineering discipline
• The ability to prioritise workloads and work to strict deadlines
• Ability to communicate effectively with both house staff and clients abroad
• A self-starter with the ability to solve technical problems
• Willingness to research and master complex software
• Improve overall efficiency as part of a small team
• Knowledge of project data management, Data Clean-up, Quality control and Data loading
• Any experience working with well-used software such as Petrel, Techlog, Geolog etc.