Planisware Architect

Job description

Job Title: Planisware Architect

Location: Pune, India

Company overview

About SLB

SLB is the world's leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. Working in more than 85 countries and employing approximately 100,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, SLB supplies the industry's most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions for hydrocarbon recovery that optimize reservoir performance. Visit for more information.

We are a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. Together, we create amazing technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. Our inclusive culture is the key to our success. We collaborate with our internal community of colleagues, alumni, and our valued external partners to support each other and achieve our goals. We aim to raise the bar high. We look for people who are committed to innovation and success and act with integrity to become and be a part of one of the most diverse group of experts in our industry, anywhere around the globe. Global in outlook, and local in practice, we're united in our passion for discovering solutions and in our commitment to creating a sustainable and balanced future. We set the bar high. So we're looking for talented, driven people committed to innovation and success and who act with integrity. We'll give you a platform to develop both professionally and personally, supported by our community of colleagues, co-workers, alumni, and our valued external partners. It's a deep collaboration that enables us all to achieve our goals. Come and be part of one of the world's most diverse and inclusive groups of industry experts.

About SLB India Technology Center

SLB has embarked on a corporate transformation to deliver a step change in the reliability, efficiency and integration of our technologies, products and services. Advanced technologies are key enablers to this and encompass all aspects of business systems, including the organization platform and processes. Investments in, and building strong competences across our technology pillars - IT Central, SAP, Cyber Security, Digital Enterprise Systems, Data and Analytics, Digital Operations, Architecture and Integration, and Governance and Performance are key to an integrated digital that is positioned to deliver superior results. The SLB India Technology Center has a fundamental and critical role in this corporate transformation and for delivering digital solutions to the larger SLB organization.

About role

Slb has an opening in Coimbatore / Pune, India and Bogota, Columbia for a Technical Lead who will work on the Development / configuration for all modules / capabilities, changes and bug fixes related to Planisware and Microsoft .Net suite of applications in the Product and Service Delivery Function under Enterprise Solutions.

The end users supported are the global community in Slb using these systems. Both L1 support and L2 support is provided in-house while L3 Development and Support is outsourced to vendors.

This role will work closely with the Scrum team on defining / change requirements and align with the development team (L3, vendors) for technical design and effort validation. Further, he/she will define periodic release plans and release schedules in coordination with the domain teams and the L3 vendor while being supervised by the Chief Scrum Master. He / she would manage the execution of release activities and co-ordinate with the L3 development teams to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget.

Key responsibilities

Technical Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Architecture: Lead the design and architecture of standard as well as customized Planisware solution to address Project Management needs/Stakeholders
• Strategic Alignment: Work with product management and IT leadership to align Planisware functionality with business strategies and project goals.
• Obtain business requirements and use cases / user stories from Product and Service Delivery, Supply, Distribution and Operation Planning Domains for all enhancements. Validate all such requirements and articulate to the L3 teams
• Customization Framework: Define best practices and frameworks for customizing Planisware to meet the evolving needs of the business.
• Integration Strategy: Develop and implement integration strategies to connect Planisware with other enterprise systems. Optimizing the API calls to minimize the performance issues & Cost.
• Governance & Best Practices: Establish governance around Planisware usage, ensuring the platform is optimized for scalability, security, and performance.
• Performance Tuning: Monitor system performance, ensuring efficient use of resources, and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables Serve as a SPOC to the L3 inhouse / vendor development team and coordinate all development and testing activities. Help development team to understand the error causes on production environment
• Review and get technical feasibility validation of the technical design provided by L3 for the change requests.
• Ensure adoption of Scrum in the development process. Also ensure DevOps is adopted within the team efficiently
• Work on roll-back scenarios and identify cases where roll-backs are necessary

Release Management

• Assist the Technical Team in the design and development of the release management process
• Expertise in various PLW modules, including Oscar and PMGo modules.
• Proven experience in designing and deploying Planisware for large-scale organizations, particularly in product or project management. Familiarity with enterprise architecture and software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Ensure technical documentation is kept up to date by the development team
• Proactively identify and implement procedures to streamline the build process which may drive the development and maintenance of an automated build process
• Periodically reports performance metric dashboard for releases handled. Communicate release details and schedules to the Domains as required

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of overall support/development experience, of which 5 + years on Planisware.
• Planisware Certification - Specialist OR Expert
• 4+ years in Change and Release Management
• 3 to 4 years of experience building on Web apps / Desktop Apps using technologies like React, Angular, Java ASP.NET, etc.
• Good understanding of consuming APIs through Single Page Application (SPA).
• Good exposure to database technologies like Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc.

Key competencies

• In-depth knowledge of the change management process working on the change and release module
• Should have a thorough understanding and working knowledge of ITIL processes including Application Change and Release Management
• Experience working on multiple releases/projects as a subject matter expert and as a technical leader. Should have worked on complex projects that require expertise across multiple disciples and environments
• Very good understanding around building Planisware based solution and Integration / data migration processes
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment
• Good knowledge of Azure IaaS / PaaS
• Very good experience of version management.
• Experience of providing overall process improvements adopting to the release process
• Advanced knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle
• Preferred experience in Oil & Gas industry (though not mandatory)

Other skills and abilities

• Self-driven, Proactive, Systems Thinking
• Open to travel abroad and in India
• Comfortable working occasional extended hours demanded by emergency release
• Exposure to Performance Tuning (Tuning concepts - indexes, segments, partitions, query tuning) of database systems would be an added advantage
• Works well with all personality types

SLB as an employer

As a leading employer in our industry, SLB is proud to offer a highly competitive package of base and incentive compensation as well as a comprehensive benefits program designed to support the health, wellness and financial security of our employees and their families. SLB is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

10+ yrs