Lead Data Engineer
BHP
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
The role can be based in Perth or Brisbane.
As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role supporting Digital projects that fundamentally change BHP’s performance across safety, productivity and people performance. You will also contribute to the architectural design patterns for data engineering across our organization in collaboration with the Enterprise teams.
Your responsibilities
- Define the data lifecycle (including data models and data sources for analytics platforms).
- Gather and clean business data from the business in order to provide ready-to-work inputs for Data Scientists and other consumers.
- Work closely with internal BHP customers to understand their data requirements, develop and model data structure, and design and build the ingestion process to provide access to data from operational and enterprise source systems.
- Be involved in the design and development of data integration and data pipelines (ETL).
- Plan and deliver secure, good practice data integration strategies and approaches.
- Work closely with database teams on topics related to data requirements, cleanliness, quality etc.
About You
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering.
- Strong professional experience working in data engineering or architecture role.
- Demonstrated experience working across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Experienced in multiple database technologies such as Distributed Processing, Traditional RDBMS, MPP, NoSQL.
- Strong understanding of understanding of traditional ETL tools & RDBMS, End to End Data Pipeline.
- Knowledge of data modelling (i.e. ERDs, Star Schemas, Snowflake schemas, etc.).
- Experience with AWS cloud services: S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift and Kinesis.
- Strong experience with Python and at least two of the following technologies: Scala, SQL, Java.
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
- Experience working in DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Continuous Delivery and/or Rapid Application Development environments.
- Mining domain exposure would be highly regarded.
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 [email protected].