Data Manager

General Overview 

At ThinkOnward, we're more than a company—we're a global community of experts and problem solvers. Our mission? To inspire and activate our community, uniting their passion, wisdom, and creativity to cleverly solve complex geoscience and data science challenges. Together, we equip our talented community with cutting-edge tools, data, and resources. We specialize in pushing boundaries, fostering collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions that accelerate decisions. 

Our three core offerings are helping solve some of the energy industry's biggest challenges. 

• Projects create pathways to accelerate results for our clients. We vet and engage specialized talent within our community on flexible, rewarding exploration and energy projects. Our geoscience community is driving innovation further and faster, pushing boundaries and redefining what's achievable. 

• Challenges allow our community to test their skills and compete in global data science competitions. By making data science challenges available to our community, we can quickly tackle complex energy problems head-on. 
• Innovation Lab is a collaborative space where we bring all the pieces of the ThinkOnward ecosystem together to deliver impactful innovations for our customers. The convergence of science, data, and tools allows us to identify, research, and cultivate revolutionary approaches, concepts, and ideas to solve our customers' most pressing challenges. 

Our values—Re-Imagine What Matters, Get It Done, Fail Fast, and No Ego—guide us. Our vision is to be the platform that empowers energy companies to accelerate decision-making, evolve workflows, and achieve impactful results through our global community, advanced AI/ML technology, and open innovation model. 

Summary: 

ThinkOnward is seeking an experienced Project Support & Quality Engineer to ensure our Experts‑in‑Residence (XiRs) have high‑performing, secure, and fully provisioned environments and that our Community platform ships with robust automated test coverage. This is a hands‑on individual contributor role with a 60% focus on project support and environment quality (for XiR workspaces on AWS AppStream) and 40% on automated test development across our front‑end (web, Node.js) and back‑end (GraphQL) services within our CI/CD and data pipelines. 
 

What You’ll Do

• Prepare and QA subsurface datasets in Petrel and ArcGIS environments
• Build, configure, and validate project data prior to launch
• Troubleshoot data, software, and transfer issues across teams
• Manage data governance, entitlements, licenses, and permissions
• Document workflows, fixes, and standards 

What You’ll Bring

• 3–5 years subsurface data management experience
• Hands-on Petrel and ArcGIS experience  
• Experience supporting geoscientists and technical project teams
• Familiarity with cloud or virtualized workflows
• Strong organization and documentation skills
• Broad subsurface software ecosystem exposure
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn and become productive with new subsurface and geoscience applications. 

Time Commitment / Travel Requirements

• Full-Time
• 0%-5% Travel expected