Senior Digital Project Engineer

Senior Digital Project Engineer Location: Doha, Qatar Work Schedule: Standard office hours, 5 days per week. Job Purpose & Key Accountabilities The Senior Digital Project Engineer in Conceptualisation shapes digital ideas into clear, viable, and delivery-ready initiatives. The role combines business analysis, stakeholder engagement, technical understanding, and digital consulting capabilities to help business teams define problems, assess opportunities, and prepare initiatives for successful delivery. The role leads and oversees early-stage discovery, requirements gathering, process and data analysis, value and cost framing, conceptualisation, definition of ready (DoR) assurance, and structured handover into use case delivery teams. This includes overseeing conceptualisation activities performed by third parties, ensuring that work progresses to plan, the appropriate activities are completed, stakeholders are engaged, and deliverables meet the company and Digital Business Solutions team quality and governance standards. The role also stewards the Digital idea backlog, ensuring opportunities are visible, prioritised, progressed, and governed through a consistent framework. The position requires sufficient Oil & Gas engineering, operational, and technical understanding to engage credibly with subject matter experts and assess engineering-focused opportunities, while remaining capable of supporting digital opportunities across other business domains. Job dimensions include but are not limited to: Initiative Responsibility Leads and oversees several opportunities at different maturity levels, from initial screening through to delivery handover. Ensures progress, quality, and alignment with the Conceptualisation process. Facilitation and Coordination Facilitates workshops and drives cross-functional discussions. Aligns stakeholders and coordinates conceptualisation activities across business and the Digital Business Solutions team. Stakeholder Management Engages a broad range of stakeholders across business entities, the Digital Business Solutions team, and third parties. Builds relationships, manages expectations, resolves ambiguities, and navigates organisational processes to progress opportunities through the Digital lifecycle. Process Navigation and Governance Maintains a strong understanding of the company and Digital Business Solutions team governance, demand management, procurement, cybersecurity, architecture, data governance, and delivery processes. Ensures opportunities are progressed efficiently and through the appropriate pathways. Financial Responsibility Develops and maintains initiative business cases. Includes cost estimation, income/spend forecasts, value assessments, and funding assumptions. Third-Party Oversight Oversees Conceptualisation activities delivered by service contractors. Ensures agreed activities, milestones, and deliverables are completed on time and to the required quality. Reviews contractor outputs, provides direction and challenge, and ensures work remains aligned with the company's business needs, Digital Business Solutions team processes, and delivery readiness requirements. Key Activities Safety Demonstrate the company Incident Free culture and HSE leadership behaviours. Ensure project activities, deployments, and third-party work comply with all HSE guidelines. Maintain psychologically safe team environments and promote transparent communication. Ensure digital solutions contribute positively to safety and risk reduction. Cybersecurity Apply the company's Cyber Security Policies and Digital Business Solutions team security standards to all project phases. Coordinate cyber risk assessments, security architecture reviews, and threat modelling. Ensure correct identity/access management, data handling, and data classification compliance. Ensure vendors and partners meet the company's cybersecurity and data governance expectations. Opportunity Identification, Conceptualisation & Business Analysis Act as a structured entry point for digital ideas and opportunities, supporting evaluation, prioritisation, and progression through the conceptualisation lifecycle. Lead discovery activities with business stakeholders to understand problems, processes, pain points, data requirements, risks, constraints, and desired outcomes. Facilitate workshops, interviews, and analysis activities to define business requirements, user needs, scope, value drivers, and success criteria. Challenge assumptions, evaluate solution options, and assess process, data, technology, and organisational alternatives. Coordinate Conceptualisation activities and prepare key deliverables including framing documents, requirements, value cases, roadmaps, prioritised functionality, and scopes of work. Maintain visibility of the Conceptualisation portfolio and provide reporting on progress, priorities, dependencies, and resource demand. Delivery Readiness, Governance & Stakeholder Management Coordinate Definition of Ready