Production Operations Data Analyst

Job Summary

This Data Analyst position supports production and facilities operations. This position is primarily responsible for leading projects to produce data-driven insights and automated workflows for the engineering teams and other stakeholders across the organization. A successful candidate will actively seek out and generate new and innovative ways to retrieve, visualize, and analyze data across a variety of operational, planning, and financial data sources.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Collaborates with varying levels of petrotechnical professionals, field personnel, financial professionals, and management to effectively gather data/reporting requirements and build complex datasets, visualizations, and analytical tools.

- Discovers and troubleshoots data issues across systems and drives issues to resolution.

- Owns, maintains, and enhances critical business intelligence tools in Spotfire and Power BI that are critical to business needs.

- Implements automated solutions to streamline processes.

- Performs data capture processes as necessary to support analytical efforts.

- Uses SQL to retrieve data from systems, creates integrated datasets using CTEs and/or subqueries, updates data within systems and creates data tables and views within Databricks.

- Uses Spotfire to enhance existing projects and create new projects using data from a variety of sources across the enterprise.

- Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies

- Problem solver, capable of anticipating engineering requirements and proactively recommending solutions and data driven insights.

- Comprehensive skills with data & analytics applications.

- Comprehensive programming skills capable of retrieving data using advanced techniques.

- Understands the data models of Continental’s primary data sources including WellView, SiteView, ProCount, Aries, SAP, Planning Analytics, eGIS.

- Understands basic data modeling and data integration principles and techniques.

- Detail oriented with ability to organize and synthesize large amounts of data to generate executive-level quality presentations in an efficient manner.

- Strong understanding of E&P operations, with in-depth knowledge of production and facilities.

- Self-starter, with ability to work as part of a team or individually.

- Advanced written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to quickly adapt and exemplify flexibility around process changes and shifting priorities.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum five (5) years of experience in the oil and gas industry working as a Data Analyst, Engineering Tech, Engineering Specialist, Business Analyst, or other operationally focused or related role.

- Intermediate skills within Spotfire with a strong understanding of complex data ingestion, manipulation, and basic scripting within the software.

- Intermediate to advanced skills within SQL with the ability to retrieve data from relational databases, create integrated datasets using CTEs and/or subqueries, and create data tables and views within Databricks.

- An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, Information Science/Management, Economics, Finance, Accounting or related degree.

- Understanding of production operations, oil and gas financial processes, and economic evaluation.

- Prior experience working with Databricks, Snowflake, or other data platform.

- Advanced SQL skills.

- Advanced Spotfire skills.

- Basic to intermediate skills in Power BI.

- Basic coding skills in Python or R.

Physical Requirements

- Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.

- Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.

- Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.

Continental Resources, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities and access for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.