Principal Architect
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 based in Brisbane or Adelaide.
As part of the Global Architecture team, you will:
- Partner with regional architecture and delivery teams to ensure that architecture foundations and fundamentals are relevant and promote the reuse of standard reference architecture & patterns for delivery velocity & quality.
- Provide consultation services to regional teams on strategy development & portfolio planning, projects with significant architecture changes, and critical system operation issues, including the creation of technology domain strategy & roadmaps and certain planning process deliverables.
- Develop architecture designs (at conceptual and logical level) of large and complex systems in the enterprise with the aim to make the systems sustainable and future-proof after they have been realized and to provide risk management and risk controls to programs and projects carrying out enterprise transformation and realizing large and complex systems.
- Support Technology Strategy, Standards, & Architecture Roadmap development and work with domain architects & SMEs to develop related implementation options.
- Coach Minerals Australia Technology Teams and build awareness for BHP standards, design patterns and reference architectures.
- Participate and contribute to Minerals Australia West, East Architecture Panel reviews and governance.
Core Accountabilities
- Provide the regional teams with the necessary services to enable project velocity.
- RAA serve a bridge between regional and global teams.
- Support developments of Technology Strategy, standards, & architecture roadmaps.
- Bring global view in region's strategic planning.
- Ensure consistent utilization of architecture foundations and fundamentals.
- Harvest and share reusable work between regions.
- Support regional key initiatives.
- Nurture regional architecture teams on the use and reuse of architecture patterns, standards and reference architecture and Architecture tools.
About You
- Ability to design & deliver contemporary layered application/architecture stacks
- Experience with Archimate and Enterprise Architecture modelling toolset (eg. iServer)
- Ability to design & facilitate workshops with business & technology stakeholders to support architecture activities
- Experience with design and implementation of Mining and OT Applications
- Experience in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models using AWS or Azure
- Experience of working in a close Agile / Scrum team to deliver high value focused solutions with velocity
- Experience Cyber security to help develop and evolve the company's security strategy
Behaviour and Leadership Competencies
- Ensure conformance with the BHP Billiton Charter, the BHP Billiton Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations
- Ensure an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development
- Customer orientation – follows through commitments to requesters with a sense of urgency whilst balancing their expectations, work collaboratively and build relationships at all levels
- Show potential to own and drive to pragmatic outcomes, creating impact with our regional teams
- Actively provides technical leadership to all technology planning and delivery teams (Asset Team, Architecture teams, Digital Teams, Program and Project Delivery teams)
- Strong communication skills with ability to align stakeholders on complex technical decisions
- Proven ability to design and facilitate workshops with business and technology stakeholders to support architectural efforts
- Teamwork - Act with integrity and actively assists others when needed, share ideas, and strive to win as a team
Qualifications:
- Bachelor or higher degrees from STEM schools
- TOGAF or similar certification
- Foundation level cloud certification (eg. AWS, Azure)
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
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.