Data Management Engineer

About BHP

At BHP Technology 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.

To enable the rapid deployment of digital solutions we have established Digital Teams. Think of us as a “startup within a company” made up of multi-disciplinary, non-hierarchical teams with one focus: delivering digital solutions that improve the lives and work of our mining teams.

We work fast and solve tough problems, and pride ourselves on our culture of open collaboration, safety, diversity of thought and fun. We’re looking for the best and brightest developers, engineers, data scientists and designers to join us and learn about data management. 

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role:

The Data Management Principal is critical in ensuring that data provided to the customers and used by all teams is continually improved and is fit for purpose.  Allowing stakeholders to enable data driven decision making across the organization.

The Data Management Principal’s primary accountability is managing the Data Virtualisation DevOps Service globally and team to ensure business objectives are met.  The team will be accountable for advising on strategic capability improvement, designing, implementation, and operations of Data Virtualisation Service for BHP.  They will ensure alignment by the broader BHP organisation to business process, and data standards for Data Virtualisation service (Denodo tool).  Including keeping alignment with our BHP Data Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for setting strategic direction of the Data Virtualisation service.  Building strategies and roadmaps to ensure business needs are meet in both capability uplift and operational service.
• Work with the customer requirements in order to produce and maintain artefacts such as Conceptual Data Models (CDM) and Logical Data Models (LDM), Business Glossary, Data Dictionary, Data model release documentation, and data mappings.
• Represent business concepts, their definitions, properties, and relationships using appropriate models and diagrams for consumption across service uplift and operational performance.
• Explain and champion data model changes and data projects for change with business stakeholders.
• Ensure data standards are executed and governed.
• Ensure all metadata for models are captured correctly, including data definitions, business rules, data quality requirements.
• Learn and collaborate with stakeholders within the organisation to develop agreed outcomes and business objectives.
• Ensure DevOps team ways of working at managed, including daily stand ups, weekly stand ups, and month meetings and retrospectives.
• Anticipates changes in business/stakeholder requirements and coordinates and conducts peer reviews with subject matter experts and stakeholders to validate requirements and business objectives.
• Drives the use of automation and advanced analytics to future proof solutions.
• Perform other Data Service-related activities as allocated, ensuring quality of outputs in terms of time, cost and business benefit.
• Ensure full utilisation of Data Virtualisation DevOps team, in the full process.  Manage strategic partnerships with vendors and stakeholders to ensure lifecycle management and planning is fulfilled.
• Work with various on premise and cloud-based technologies.

About You

As the successful candidate you will possess the following:

• STEM qualification
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, a curious mind, and creative problem-solving skills to generate business value
• Experience in planning and executing work using a disciplined approach in an agile environment, including task management to achieve project goals
• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate analytical results to technical and non-technical audiences

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.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.

At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.

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