Production Systems Architect
About The Position
Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Our long-life, balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep, high-quality development inventory. Crescent is a top three producer (by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin. Crescent’s leadership is an experienced team of investment, financial and industry professionals that combines proven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade, Crescent and our predecessors have executed on a consistent strategy focused on cash flow, risk management and returns. Through disciplined and accretive investments, we have successfully tripled the size of our company since going public in December 2021 while maintaining a strong balance sheet. Production data serves as the operational foundation for production accounting, regulatory reporting, revenue distribution, and informed business decision-making across Crescent's operated assets. As the company continues to expand through acquisitions, maintaining scalable production systems, standardized data governance, and reliable system integrations is essential to sustaining operational excellence. The Production Systems Architect is responsible for the strategy, architecture, governance, and continuous improvement of Crescent's Production Accounting systems ecosystem. Serving as the technical steward for enterprise production systems, this role leads the design, optimization, and long-term evolution of ProCount, Field Operator, Carte, SCADA integrations, and related operational technologies supporting Production Accounting and Field Operations. Partnering closely with Production Accounting, Operations, Engineering, Measurement, Regulatory, IT, and external software vendors, the Production Systems Architect develops scalable system architecture, strengthens enterprise data integrity, improves operational workflows, and advances automation initiatives that enhance production reporting, allocation performance, and operational efficiency across a growing multi-asset portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years supporting upstream oil & gas production accounting systems.
- Expertise with Merrick ProCount, Field Operator, SQL Server, production accounting, allocations, measurement, reporting, and SCADA integrations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Power BI or Snowflake.
- Cloud or hybrid infrastructure experience.
- Multi-asset acquisition integration experience.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the enterprise owner and technical steward of Crescent's Production Accounting systems architecture.
- Develop and continuously enhance long-term architecture supporting production accounting and field operations.
- Establish scalable design standards supporting future acquisitions.
- Develop technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic enhancements.
- Lead integrations between SCADA, Field Operator, ProCount, reporting platforms, and enterprise databases.
- Establish governance standards for master data, allocation hierarchies, routes, and meter relationships.
- Ensure production data integrity, auditability, and consistency across the enterprise.
- Partner with IT to establish integration standards and architecture documentation.
- Lead automation initiatives that improve allocation performance and reduce manual effort.
- Design scalable production reporting solutions.
- Drive process improvement through workflow redesign and technology innovation.
- Develop advanced SQL queries, stored procedures, dashboards, and reporting solutions.
- Perform root cause analysis for complex production systems issues.
- Maintain documentation for system architecture, integrations, and business rules.
- Serve as the primary technical resource for ProCount, Field Operator, Carte, and related applications.
- Coordinate upgrades, testing, migrations, and vendor relationships.
- Support acquisition onboarding and production systems integration.
- Promote continuous improvement across Production Accounting technology.
- Benchmark systems against industry best practices.
- Develop performance metrics for reliability, automation, and data quality.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
