Data Engineer – Oil

2 weeks ago

Houston, TX, United States Userc Dehradun Full-time $120,000 - $180,000

Location Worldwide

Job type Contractor

Posted 16 Oct 2026 (18 hours ago)

Region Remote

Category Data Science

Source Himalayas

Work mode Remote

Client: oil and gas company (upstream operator, Houston HQ) · Location: remote, LATAM, Houston business hours · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor

You will build the pipelines that move well, production and sensor data from the field into a cloud lakehouse used by engineers and analysts.

What you will do

Ingest time-series data from SCADA and historians (OSIsoft PI, OPC UA) alongside ERP and production accounting sources

Build batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks or Snowflake with Spark, Kafka and Airflow

Model data in a medallion architecture for production, drilling and maintenance analytics

Enforce data quality, lineage and access controls

Work with reservoir and production engineers to turn their questions into datasets

Optimize pipeline cost and performance

What you bring

5+ years in data engineering

Strong SQL and Python, plus Spark in production

Experience on Azure or AWS data stacks

Orchestration with Airflow or similar, and dbt for transformations

Experience with high-volume time-series or IoT data

Advanced English

Nice to have

Oil and gas domain knowledge (WITSML, PPDM, OSDU)

Spanish or Portuguese for work with LATAM operations

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