Technical Delivery Lead - AI & Data

About Us

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth - Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is currently seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to join the Data & AI team.

Effective team members in the Data & AI team combine a clear vision for the future with a strong focus on value, curiosity, and practical delivery. They apply data and artificial intelligence to drive innovation, unlock new opportunities, solve complex operational challenges, and enable meaningful improvements that support Fortescue’s strategic direction.

The team attracts, develops, and grows people who are passionate about designing, building, and evolving enterprise grade data and AI solutions. Team members play a critical role in empowering better decision-making and operational efficiency across Fortescue, ensuring data and AI capabilities are scalable, secure, and aligned with the organisation’s broader objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead prioritisation and delivery of Data & AI initiatives, aligning workstreams with strategic objectives and business demand
• Establish and maintain delivery governance frameworks, including integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, reporting, and release cadence
• Manage cross-team dependencies, conflicts, and escalations to ensure continuity of delivery and timely resolution of issues
• Ensure adherence to change management, platform standards, and operational processes across all initiatives
• Define and track value realisation frameworks to ensure Data & AI initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes
• Identify and manage delivery, operational, security, and compliance risks, including release readiness across environments
• Own financial oversight, including budgeting, forecasting, cloud cost management, and governance of tooling and vendor investments
• Lead resource and workforce planning across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring optimal utilisation and alignment to future demand
• Manage vendor and partner performance, ensuring alignment with delivery standards, governance, and contractual expectations
• Drive stakeholder engagement and demand management, translating business needs into structured delivery pipelines while fostering a high-performance, collaborative team culture.

Qualifications and Experience

• 7+ years in enterprise technology delivery
• Strong Data/Cloud/AI exposure
• Budget management experience
• Offshore leadership experience
• Vendor management experience
• Executive stakeholder engagement capability
• Experience building governance frameworks.

Our Commitment

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.