Digital Solutions Engineer MDT

Patterson-UTI • Houston, TX

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Digital Solutions Engineer will be pivotal in bridging software implementation into field operations. This role will require a 75% Field to 25% Office blend. The Technical Product Lead serves as the primary product and domain interface between Software Development and the Product Service Lines (PSLs). The role is responsible for converting operational needs into clear, validated, and prioritized software requirements and maintaining product continuity through development, testing, field validation, implementation, and performance measurement. The position is not primarily a programming role. Its value comes from combining operational understanding, structured analysis, product ownership, and software translation.

Requirements

• 3-5 Years of Hydraulic Fracturing Engineering Experience
• 4 Year STEM / Engineering Bachelor's Degree
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Ability to translate operational workflows into technical requirements
• Experience working with software, controls, or digital-product teams
• Strong stakeholder and SME facilitation skills
• Understanding of Agile and software-development processes
• Ability to manage priorities, actions, testing, and implementation activities
• Strong written and technical communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Completions, field, engineering, maintenance, or related domain experience
• Programming experience may be beneficial but is not required.

Responsibilities

• Clarify the operational problem and desired business outcome.
• Identify and coordinate the appropriate operations, maintenance, engineering, and field SMEs.
• Document current and future workflows, constraints, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Distinguish scalable product requirements from individual or localized preferences.
• Reconcile conflicting stakeholder input and maintain clear decision ownership.
• Translate operational workflows into functional requirements, user stories, business rules, process diagrams, algorithm requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Provide clear functional direction to software and controls teams.
• Maintain traceability between the original business problem and developed functionality.
• Support backlog refinement, scope clarification, prioritization, and release planning.
• Ensure requirements are operationally valid, technically understandable, and testable.
• Serve as the primary source of product clarification for assigned software-development work.
• Participate in planning, design reviews, demonstrations, testing, and release-readiness activities.
• Coordinate access to SMEs when additional technical or operational input is required.
• Reduce the need for software engineers to independently interpret operational requirements or resolve conflicting stakeholder direction.
• Define operational and functional acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate bench, integration, field, and user-acceptance testing.
• Ensure testing reflects representative operating conditions and edge cases.
• Support field implementation, training, readiness, and adoption.
• Maintain continuity from development through operational use.
• Define and track product-level KPIs.
• Monitor utilization, reliability, operational performance, and adoption.
• Collect field feedback and translate it into future product priorities.
• Support documentation of operational and financial value.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level