Application Advisor

About this opportunity:

We’re looking for an Application Advisor to join our GIS & Field Data Capture team in Calgary. Reporting to the Manager, GIS & Field Data Capture, you’ll play a key role in supporting and enhancing Cenovus’s field data capture systems and applications.

In this role, you’ll provide technical application support, configuration, and development in alignment with Cenovus standards and best practices. You’ll contribute to solution design—analyzing, architecting, and collaborating with project teams to ensure deliverables meet quality expectations. Additionally, you’ll take ownership of your own application support activities, including assessing requirements and implementing enhancements and maintenance activities  to keep our systems optimized and reliable.

If you’re passionate about combining technical expertise with problem-solving and collaboration, this is your opportunity to make an impact on how we capture and leverage critical field data.

What you’ll do:

• Provide tier 2 and 3 support for field data capture applications, including incident management, upgrades, patch execution, testing, and operational documentation.

• Review solution requirements and design, build, and operate application functionality that meets business needs.

• Collaborate with managed service providers and vendors to analyze, configure, test, and implement enhancements—particularly in Energy Components extensions.

• Analyze requirements and recommend optimal solutions, ensuring alignment with IT standards and best practices.

• Create, maintain, and validate technical documentation, while identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities.

• Perform system administration to maximize application performance, availability, and reliability.

• Partner with business SMEs, architects, and technical teams to deliver functionality, support risk assessments, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.

• Oversee application lifecycle activities, including upgrades, disaster recovery testing, audits, and asset management planning.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Hold a college diploma or university degree in Computer Science, or a related field—or bring equivalent experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in application support, development, and configuration, plus 2+ years working with Energy Components or similar programs.

• Possess strong technical acumen in Energy Components, with knowledge of oil sands royalty accounting and familiarity with the EC royalty module is considered an asset.

• Skilled in relational databases and SQL (preferably Oracle 19+), and experienced with application development concepts and configuration.

• Understand the oil and gas lifecycle/value chain and royalty accounting processes.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT January 11, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.  

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)

• Health & dental benefits

• Substantial mental health coverage

• Life insurance

• Disability benefits

• Employee family assistance

• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings

• Education assistance for additional development

• Opportunities to work on special projects

• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

• Our values:

  • Protect what matters

  • Do it right

  • Make it better

  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).

  • Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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