Lead Data Analytics Platforms | Perth, Brisbane

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

BHP is generating large amounts of data from different sources and envisioning to scale value and impact through delivery of emergent data, AI and agentic solutions. Reporting to the Manager Data Platforms, your task as a Lead Data Platforms is to lead a team in providing expertise in the design, implementation and continuous improvements of BHP’s core Data & AI platforms – in particular focusing in on core data and knowledge capabilities to ingest, engineer, model and contextualise data.

You will lead a team of BHP Platform Engineers/Product Owners and a contingent of operational contractors (onshore and offshore) to deliver a quality service to our customers.

These platforms provide re-usable, scalable, and self-service capabilities enabling project teams and customer groups to leverage data, analytics, and AI to drive business value and decision making.

Through a diverse range of engagements, you will bring your expertise in modern data, knowledge and AI technologies to guide, operate and improve enterprise platforms across a portfolio of products.

About You

• You are a strategic and hands-on leader with a strong drive for continuous learning and adapting to emerging technologies across data and AI platforms.
• You bring deep expertise in modern data and cloud technologies and can translate strategy into scalable platform outcomes.
• You are an excellent communicator who can guide and influence stakeholders across business and technology domains.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in data engineering or data platform engineering roles, with leadership responsibility. 
  Strong experience with modern cloud-based data platforms including data warehouses, data lakes, integration platforms and analytics tooling.
• Experience leading platform portfolios, roadmaps and strategic initiatives.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), Snowflake and modern data ecosystems.
• Experience in source control, CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to emergent AI/ML, Agentic and Knowledge Base capabilities (e.g. Vector stores, Semantic Models and Graph databases).
• Experience in creation of platform patterns, standards and engineering best practices.
• Understanding of enterprise data architecture patterns including integration, data mesh, and analytics.
• Experience working within Agile, DevOps and product-based delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to guide and influence across the organisation.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Desirable Skills & Qualifications:

• Professional certifications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, or other relevant cloud technologies.Experience with one or more of the following technologies:
  • Power BI
  • Snowflake
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Collibra
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Neo4j
• Experience supporting or delivering Data & AI transformation programs within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and AI enablement frameworks.

About Our Process

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.