Senior Data Scientist

Trinity Operating, LLC is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from onshore properties within the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, we are a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Our focus is to maintain high operations of explorations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Are you interested in delivering clean-burning natural gas to customers? Join our world-class team today!   

 

Position Specific Description

The Sr. Data Scientist coordinates and oversees the management of all types of data received into and going out of the corporate and project data stores, adhering to standard processes, procedures, and best practices. Responsible for ensuring consistent data management practices, acting as a liaison between the asset team and other data management entities. 

 

Knowledge 
•    Knowledge of data management practices and standards specific to upstream data. 
•    Knowledge of document management practices and standards. 
•    Oil and Gas industry experience. 
•    Experience with Oil and Gas Upstream technical applications especially relating to data loading, quality analysis, and extract and reporting. 
•    Experience with spatial data management and mapping projects. 
•    Database experience and familiarity with commonly used database languages. 
•    Linux/Unix and Windows OS and scripting experience. 

 

Skills 
•    A high degree of organizational skills and attention to detail. 
•    Ability to quickly learn, implement and effectively support new software products. 
•    Ability to implement data Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) workflows within new application platforms. 
•    Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. 
•    Strong teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills. 
•    Proactively seeks to understand group’s needs and where they can add value. 
•    Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical skills. 

Attributes / Attitude 
•    Ability to effectively communicate with management and technical staff. 
•    A team player with a willingness to execute simple or complex assignments. 
•    Interest in a fast-paced organization. 

 

Primary Responsibilities 
•    Single Point of Contact (SPOC) responsible for all data needs of the assigned asset team or functional group. 
•    Works with team members to ensure that newly acquired data are quality controlled stored in corporate and project data stores and distributed properly, following E&P data management guidelines. 
•    Assists in identifying and resolving data quality issues, work with appropriate team to resolve issues. 
•    Ensures during data loading, data adheres to approved standards. 
•    This role is responsible for transform activities such as consolidating, converting, re-projecting, renumbering, re-binning, and interpolating existing data (e.g., Well logs, normalizing depths, etc.). 
 Runs quality assurance metrics. 
•    Works with vendors and other external entities to ensure that all qualified data are received in industry-standard formats. 
•    Identifies and resolve data issues in raw original format data as well as in corporate and project data stores, help determine the root cause of issues. 
•    Provides regular and user requested data cleanup according to quality assessment and approved business rules. 
•    Assists team member at end of projects with data archival, knowledge capture, deletions, and transfers to corporate repositories, as appropriate. 
•    Performs data consolidation of project databases. 
•    Retrieves data from either physical or electronic data stores. 

 

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Certified Petroleum Data Analyst (CPDA™). 

Job Overview

This position is responsible for developing algorithms, modeling techniques, and optimization methods that support many aspects of NextEra and FPL business. Employees in this role use knowledge of machine learning, optimization, statistics, and applied mathematics along with abilities in software engineering with a focus on distributed computing and data storage infrastructure (i.e., “Big Data”).

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops machine learning, optimization and other modeling solutions
• Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses
• Works with big data and distributed computing platforms
• Develops software and contributes to product development
• Perfo