SURE/Principal - Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream & Downstream)

Principal - Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream & Downstream) - SURE Practice
(Execution-Driven, Digital Transformation Focus)

About the Role
We are expanding our Energy practice to accelerate digital transformation across the Oil & Gas value chain. As a Principal, you will lead the delivery of mission-critical digital, data, and automation programs across Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream operations.
Your focus will be on execution excellence-guiding teams to design, build, and deploy solutions that enhance operational performance, reliability, efficiency, and safety. You will bring strong operational understanding of O&G combined with practical experience applying digital technologies such as advanced analytics, predictive modeling, optimization, and intelligent automation.

The Role You'll Play
Digital Transformation Delivery (Execution Focus)

• Lead end-to-end delivery of digital programs across exploration, drilling, production operations, pipeline operations, terminal management, refining, and downstream logistics.
• Translate operational challenges into executable digital solutions-analytics models, automation workflows, optimization tools, real-time monitoring, and digital worker enablement.
• Drive detailed requirements, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Lead buildout of digital workflows, data-enabled dashboards, predictive models, and automated decision support tools.
• Work directly with client operations, engineering, IT/OT, and field teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption.

Project, Program & Agile Leadership

• Serve as program lead, project manager, or Agile delivery leader for multi-million-dollar transformation programs.
• Provide Scrum Master leadership when required-facilitating sprints, ceremonies, backlog refinement, and cross-team coordination.
• Manage scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, financials, and quality across globally distributed teams.
• Conduct workshops, solution walkthroughs, and operational readiness assessments with business and technical stakeholders.
• Apply Agile, SAFe, hybrid, or waterfall delivery models depending on engagement needs.

Digital Enablement & Applied Innovation

• Identify and prioritize digital use cases across reliability, safety, throughput improvement, cost optimization, energy efficiency, and emissions management.
• Guide development of predictive and prescriptive analytics (e.g., equipment health, well performance, pipeline integrity, refinery yield optimization).
• Enable scaling through reusable architectures, data pipelines, automation frameworks, and digital operating models.
• Support design of automation-first solutions such as exception-based surveillance, events triage, and rules-based workflow automation (keeping NLP/LLM usage light and relevant).

What You'll Bring (Ideally)
Experience

• Bachelor's degree with ~10 years of progressive experience in consulting or in the Oil & Gas industry (Upstream, Midstream, or Downstream).
• Strong experience delivering digital transformation, analytics, or automation programs-not just strategy.
• Hands-on experience with advanced analytics or predictive modeling and exposure to machine learning techniques.
• Experience implementing digital workflows, automation solutions, real-time monitoring, or intelligent operations.
• Experience leading distributed teams using Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.

Skills

• Strong ability to break down operational problems and drive structured execution.
• Proficiency in process analysis, solution design, user story creation, and delivery governance.
• Ability to lead client workshops, articulate technology solutions, and oversee field/operations deployment.
• Effective communication, stakeholder management, and leadership of delivery teams in a Global Delivery Capacity
• Ability to travel extensively.
• Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry experience in Exploration & Production, Pipeline Operations, Refining, Petrochemicals, LNG, or Trading.
• Experience implementing cloud-based, IoT, or real-time data solutions.
• Familiarity with production optimization, asset performance management, reliability engineering, or process optimization.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Data/Analytics, Operations, or similar fields.

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits: -

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Client-provided location(s): Houston, TX

Job ID: Infosys-144056BR

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-06T18:41:45