Data Management Development Lead

Role overview

The Data Management Development Lead oversees the organisation, control, upkeep, enhancement, and governance of metadata and technical documentation. This role supports the company’s digital agenda by improving the quality, availability, consistency, and system integration of technical data across multiple applications and platforms.

The position also serves as the central contact for iView administration and development, metadata governance, digital documentation work, data quality improvements, digital transformation efforts, and system-to-system connections between documentation platforms and corporate applications.

HSE compliance and leadership

• Ensure that employees and contractors understand and follow HSE rules and statutory safety requirements.
• Encourage the use of company safety practices and initiatives.
• Help lower HSE exposure by improving the quality and accessibility of technical documentation.

Data management and metadata governance

• Coordinate all work needed to structure and maintain metadata within documentation systems.
• Maintain high standards of metadata quality, consistency, integrity, and compliance.
• Lead efforts to recover, correct, improve, and sustain technical documentation metadata.
• Create methods and tools that raise the quality of documents and metadata delivered by contractors.
• Support data standardisation and carry out quality assurance checks across departments.
• Contribute to Data Governance Project activities.

Digital project and digital twin support

• Support the digital project and TAG-centric strategy through strong metadata control.
• Take part in Digital Project Task Force discussions and use cases linked to digital twin work.
• Make sure digital project needs align with standards and existing solutions.
• Design interfaces between technical documentation and systems such as SAP, 3D models, and other digital platforms.
• Back digital transformation initiatives across engineering and construction functions.
• Build links between document management systems and digital project use cases.

iView management and development

• Administer, improve, expand, and support iView, the advanced documentation viewer.
• Keep the platform reliable and continuously available.
• Develop standalone iView solutions.
• Create integrations between iView and other applications.
• Act as the main contact for iView within digital project activities.
• Coordinate synchronisation between MANASA Operation and iView.
• Support users onshore and offshore.
• Coordinate iView contracts, licensing, development work, disaster recovery needs, and related costs with the IS Department.
• Build standalone viewer solutions for MP, E&C, CPD, contractors, QatarEnergy, and external parties with project-specific access and licensing.

Documentation systems and MANASA administration

• Prepare scopes of work and define project execution plans.
• Manage schedules, run weekly meetings, track progress, and review invoices.
• Oversee document imports into MANASA and iView environments.
• Manage the preparation of MIM import files and MUM update files based on MANASA requirements.
• Ensure that document imports and metadata updates are completed successfully.
• Confirm that all technical documents in the MANASA operation As Built Cabinet meet iPDF standards.

Standards, numbering rules, and governance

• Create, revise, and maintain document and TAG numbering standards and rules.
• Study new numbering needs and their effect on existing tools and digital project use cases.
• Work with MP, E&C, DPG, and CPD to keep standards aligned.
• Ensure numbering rules are applied correctly in digital project use cases and applications.
• Find and close compliance gaps in systems such as SAP, 3D Models, Credo, and other platforms.

Applications, tools, and iPDF development

• Coordinate with the IS Department on applications and tools linked to intelligent PDF technologies.
• Support the development of tools and plugins that embed business rules.
• Assist in building intelligent document generation solutions.
• Evaluate how new developments affect existing tools, workflows, and digital project use cases.
• Coordinate activities related to metadata validation and documentation quality control.

Stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination

• Liaise with E&C, MP, DCC, DPG, CPD, IS, and other teams.
• Coordinate work around document management, numbering conventions, tool development, MANASA interfaces, and metadata governance.
• Work with 3D model teams on integrations, plugins, and TAG-based interfaces.
• Support documentation workflows and metadata synchronisation for Greenfield projects.
• Act as the focal point for INCITIUS Software as OEM and participate in associated activities.

Team leadership

• Supervise contractor resources assigned to data management and digital documentation tasks.
• Lead project teams to achieve scope, schedule, and quality targets.

Job scope and scale

This position has organisation-wide influence through its responsibility for technical documentation governance, metadata control, and digital document access solutions.

Key scale indicators include responsibility for iView applications and their related interfaces used by all users, coordination with all departments on metadata generation and compliance, management of outsourced personnel, oversight of about 350,000 documents, and support for roughly 310,000 documents available in iView with the latest revisions only.

Work environment

The role is based in Doha, Qatar, and operates in a complex setting with many interfaces across entities. Travel may be required to project sites and facilities, including onshore locations, offshore locations, domestic assignments, and international assignments. The normal schedule is 5 days per week during standard office hours.

Qualifications and experience

The role calls for a confirmed Lead Document Controller with 15 years of professional experience in industrial project management organisations. Strong knowledge of document control and data management is essential.

Relevant background should include operator transition phases for new fields, legacy documentation upgrades and management, technical documentation governance, field digitalisation initiatives, and work across large EPCIC programmes and/or brownfield project portfolios.

Technical and behavioural strengths

The ideal candidate should have a strong grasp of document and data control principles, project controls, structured data development, process optimisation support, digital transformation programmes, process automation, metadata management, document systems, digital tools, and enterprise interfaces. A broader understanding of engineering disciplines is an advantage.

Important behavioural strengths include analytical thinking, problem-solving, planning and organisation, independent work, communication, stakeholder management, collaboration, and the ability to work effectively under pressure while handling multiple priorities.

Additional information

This is an onsite contract role in Doha. The position requires active coordination across business and technical teams, support for both onshore and offshore users, and involvement in document systems, digital transformation, and enterprise integration activities.