Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Production Optimization

This role is based in Bengaluru, India, as part of Cognite’s India Center of Excellence (ICoE).
About CogniteEmbark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. In the realm of industrial digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. As an integral part of the esteemed Aker family, Cognite brings forth a legacy of innovation and excellence. Excitingly, we are set to extend our footprint to the vibrant landscapes of India, which opens the door for you to be part of the expansion from the beginning. Join us in this venture where data meets ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
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About the roleAs a Production Optimization specialist, you will bring extensive industry experience to our Data Science and Customer Success teams, helping them and other parts of Cognite support our customers in their data-driven production optimization journey. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), guiding and supporting delivery projects with a focus on enhancing production performance across various industries.
The Production Optimization SME will work closely with Project Managers, Global Customer Success (GCS), Account Executives (AE), TechSales, and the Product organization. You will be responsible for ensuring the value of customer delivery projects and providing the right technical recommendations for both short- and long-term success. This role requires interacting with customers, project delivery teams, and internal stakeholders to effectively communicate technical and strategic aspects, ensuring quick time to value for our customers in alignment with Cognite's strategy.

To be successful in this position, we expect you to leverage your P&O domain expertise combined with Industrial DataOps technology (that will become an expert in) to:

• Be a trusted advisor for our customers, prospects and delivery teams, with the ability to drive and guide, define and develop the right solutions/use cases aligned with the Production and Optimization domain and customer needs
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring customer satisfaction throughout project delivery and beyond
• Leverage in-depth technical SME knowledge to quickly identify customer's pain points and the value based on the interactions with the customer to guide short and long-term value outtakes

Ensure a good feedback cycle to:
• Translate the customer voice into the project scope and its execution
• Ensure customer feedback on Cognite’s product and deliverables
• Demonstrate how Cognite Data Fusion and  Cognite Applications can be used to solve the critical challenges that lead to realizable value at scale now and in the future and increased user adoption and Cognite technology stickiness
• Create a demo story, visualisation and supporting material for customer implementation projects
• Provide on-site technical support to clients and partners  
• Coach and mentor technical teams, esp. data scientists, in their everyday work to ensure the technical and business value of the deliveries
• Collaborate with Sales, Tech Sales, Product, and Partners to stay up to date on the latest strategy, and capabilities, provide customer feedback and contribute to the development of repeatable and scalable solutions and products agnostic to customer or industry, as far as possible.

We believe most of these should match your experience

• A minimum of Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Petroleum engineering, Chemical Engineering etc.)
• A minimum of 5+ years of full-time work experience in production engineering
• Providing solutions to optimize the production with respect to near well-bore, completion and pipelines/network aspects
• Design and troubleshoot artificial lift systems including ESPs, Gas-lift systems and sucker rod pumps
• Using multiphase flow simulators such as Prosper, Gap and Pipesim
• Analyzing reservoir and production data to discover opportunities to increase the production and reserves of a field
• Analyzing wells performance and developing workover operations to enhance production
• Conducting flow assurance studies on a field level to eliminate issues such as corrosion, scale, wax, hydrates, and slugs
• Understand the challenge of technical solutions for production data management systems and passionate about making a change with data-driven production optimisation
• Be familiar with relevant technology, such as Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Machine Learning
• Experience with Python is a plus
• Excellent presentation and coaching and proactive communication skills
• Ability to talk to different levels of customer organization: data engineers to C-level executives
• Self-motivated with a results-oriented mindset
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team
• Proficiency in English is a requirement

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

 Join the global Cognite Community! 🌐- Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝- ITPL office location (Bengaluru)- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries- Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.- Hybrid work environment globally

Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainabilityfor clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇


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