This is a leadership opportunity for a senior engineering executive to shape the future of enterprise software in the global energy sector. Our client is a recognized innovator delivering advanced, cloud-first solutions that help operators improve efficiency, enhance decision-making, and achieve strategic growth.
About the Role You will take ownership of engineering direction and delivery for a portfolio of applications supporting strategic planning, asset economics, and reserves management within the upstream energy industry. This is a high-impact role reporting to the Chief Technology leader, overseeing global teams and steering the evolution of mission-critical SaaS platforms.
What You’ll Do Leadership & Vision
About the Role You will take ownership of engineering direction and delivery for a portfolio of applications supporting strategic planning, asset economics, and reserves management within the upstream energy industry. This is a high-impact role reporting to the Chief Technology leader, overseeing global teams and steering the evolution of mission-critical SaaS platforms.
What You’ll Do Leadership & Vision
- Lead several engineering groups across backend, frontend, and data disciplines.
- Define and enforce best practices for Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps adoption, and modular architectures.
- Ensure products are reliable, scalable, and optimized for modern cloud environments.
- Translate product goals into executable roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
- Make strategic architecture choices that enable long-term platform stability and innovation.
- Drive integration of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and advanced data capabilities.
- Apply strong understanding of exploration and production economics, reserves classification standards, and asset lifecycle planning.
- Collaborate with commercial and product leaders to ensure features address real-world energy workflows.
- Utilize insights from competitive tools and market trends to differentiate offerings.
- Recruit and develop senior engineering leaders with a focus on high performance and accountability.
- Promote continuous improvement, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Build globally distributed teams that can execute with speed and quality.
- Work closely with UX, product, commercial, and customer teams to align engineering outcomes with client needs.
- Act as an executive-level technical representative in strategic customer and partner discussions.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in executive or senior leadership roles.
- Track record of delivering cloud-native enterprise platforms at scale.
- Expertise in Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and containerized application delivery.
- Experience integrating AI/ML into production systems.
- Ability to lead large-scale modernization programs.
- Proven capability to manage distributed global teams and balance innovation with operational excellence.
- Knowledge of upstream energy operations, reserves reporting, and petroleum economics.
- P&L ownership and budget management experience desirable.
- Direct experience in software for energy planning, reserves management, or asset economics.
- Background in AI-driven forecasting and scenario modeling.
- Comprehensive background checks will be conducted for the selected candidate.
- Only applicants with current work authorization in the relevant hiring country will be considered; visa sponsorship is not available.