Senior IT Pillar Specialist

Job Overview:

The Senior IT Pillar Specialist uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the IT Pillar discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the IT Pillar discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior IT Pillar Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the IT Pillar Team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Degree in engineering or equivalent technical diploma. Strong understanding of current Engineering and design.
• Proficient in Aveva AIM(Net) Portal and XML Gateways.
• Certified Aveva AIM(NET) Administrator is preferred.
• Previous experience in applying the Aveva AIM(Net) Portal Development and Administration skills to oil and gas projects with experience on major capital projects.
• Experience in .NET Programming, ASP, C#, XML, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle Databases, SSRS Reporting tools, IIS, and Power BI Reporting.
• Solid knowledge/experience (minimum 3 years) of Aveva AIM(Net) Portal administration in the support of major projects, including support of a Portal user community with various Portal modules and Database/SSRS Reporting tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and MS Project).
• Good understanding of FEED/Detail Design deliverables for projects, including Class library, CFHIOS, and Data management.
• Experience with Information Systems Data Management is a plus.
• Experience with Engineering Authoring tools and data export/import functions is a plus.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Actively contribute to better use of IM tools across all projects, assets, and operations.
• Raise the profile of IM from low-level activities to ensure adoption.
• Identify where the Portal functionality has superseded or could be used to enhance or make redundant other applications currently in use.
• Promote a culture of data-centric management and use via comfortable, confident, and effective use of the Portal.
• Ensure the benefits of portal usage can be realized throughout the whole operation, including remote interior facilities.
• Recommend, design, and implement work process improvements.
• Stay aware of industry-leading technology trends and applications.
• Actively support Lessons Learned feedback.
• Establish new Project Portals as necessary while maintaining all necessary access securities and permissions.
• Establish asset structures in the portal to ensure that all related asset data and documents are available from one screen.
• Configuration and maintenance of XML gateways (links to databases).
• Develop reports for data quality checks by creating/editing Query Forms, Tag summary pages, etc.
• Monitor and report Portal usage, identifying areas of concern or where heavy usage (or not) may indicate additional development/roll out requirements.
• Update notification and training of users in the AVEVA AIM(Net) Portal while developing and publishing training material for all users.
• Identify areas of potential development within the systems that can advance the asset integrity of both Engineering & operations throughout the company as well as enhancing communication and information sharing between its contractors.
• Align and optimize Portal data flows to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent publishing of required information.
• Assist project teams in data handover requirements and conduct compliance verification checks.
• Contribute to the delivery of deployment and configuration services to Clients and Vendors.
• Assist Sales and Business Development and Management with demonstrations, responding to Request For Information, and other pre-sales activities.
• Assist in AVEVA AIM(NET) servers setup and installation, including database setup and configuration.
• Assist in managing and importing project class library into Aveva AIM(NET).
• Excellent communication skills (English) to work in a multi-culture project environment.

Reports to: Manager - Area Engineering IT