Digital Project Engineer

Job description / Role

Location and duration

Location: Doha, Qatar
Start date: ASAP
End date: 31-Dec-2026
Work status: Residential, single

Qualifications & experience

Bachelor of Science degree.

Specialization in engineering, data science, computer science, or information systems management is a plus.

Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and ITIL certifications.

Project management or business analysis certifications, or equivalent experience is a plus.

Minimum of 6 years relevant experience in digital product development with agile teams.

Proven track record of delivering successful digital products in the industry.

Experience in digital delivery and transformation in industrial settings, preferably within the oil and gas sector.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure).

Strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and DevOps practices.

Design thinking or UX/UI experience and skills are a plus.

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Ability to work independently.

Strong understanding of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment.

Experience with agile tools and software, such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.

Fluent in English as a business language.

Experience on projects using industry data platforms (such as OSDU or Cognite Data Fusion) would be a plus.

Activities

Safety & working environment:
Uphold and be a role model for company core values, incident-free practices, and leadership behaviours.
Help maintain motivation, team spirit, and camaraderie.
Continuously improve ways of working through inspect and adapt, fostering a growth and collaborative mindset among the different stakeholders' digital work.

Core responsibilities

Develop and maintain digital products that enhance customer engagement and improve user experience.

Drive integrated timeline definition and continuous updates, working with the fusion team to ensure that product and sprint backlog is up to date showing live status.

Manage vendor activities and relationships to promote a team environment and drive a high-performing team culture.

Track, manage, and report delivery cost per use case.

Support risk identification and mitigation while ensuring appropriate escalation.

Present delivery progress and outcomes to the wider organisation and senior leadership; present various delivery metrics to stakeholders, such as status reports and burn down charts.

Support the refinement of the use case backlog throughout development.

Support the product owner (PO) and development team to prioritize use case scope, backlog, and activities effectively, showing adaptability.

Help to structure use case requirements and assist the PO to develop them into relevant user stories and acceptance criteria.

Lead workshops and support business analysts to map as-is and to-be business processes.

Work with the PO to influence and challenge stakeholders' perspectives to ensure a more valuable product and efficient delivery.

Ensure coordination with PO and wider business to initiate value tracking process expected for rollout of use cases.

Facilitate agile methodology rituals, including daily stand-ups, refinement, release planning, sprint planning, capacity planning, estimation techniques, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Take responsibility for the backlog and maintain an overall view of the backlog tool.

Escalate obstacles to the head of delivery as necessary.

Support the PO and business to develop a product vision and roadmap.

Participate and contribute with other digital project engineers to the development of the overall digital portfolio, by finding synergies across digital products and underlying technologies and platforms.

Contribute to the creation of training and roll-out materials.

Coordination and collaboration

Ensure ad-hoc coordination between business, IS, and technological partners.

Enable the development team to work efficiently.

Apply an agile mindset and practices to ensure the team delivers value early and frequently.

Help others understand how the team works and how they should interact with it.

Facilitate various meetings, ensuring equal contribution from each team member.

Act as the team's motivator and leader, proactively recognizing and helping remove any obstacles.