Principal Digital Software Engineer

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

In this newly created role, we are seeking a Principal Digital Software Eng & MinAus to join the BHP Technology Strategy, Portfolio & Performance (SPP) team. Reporting to the Manager Digital Strategy, this role will advance software engineering practices across BHP globally, with a focused coaching responsibility into Minerals Australia (MinAus) software delivery teams.

Specific accountabilities include:

• Understand BHP's global Technology team landscape, focusing on the future-facing technical guidance needed to guide and enable software teams and their short-term delivery priorities, and long-term evolution and sustainability
• Lead the development BHP’s software engineering framework in support of global digital transformation priorities
• Collaborate with Digital ways-of-working leads, Testing Strategy lead, Digital Tech lead and key Technology stakeholders to create a holistic design for digital capabilities that pairs technical tooling, software excellence and DevOps with Agile for a complete digital organisation strategy
• Establish pragmatic and flexible software standards that appreciates the varying current-state maturity of delivery teams, while balancing the need to advance towards a strategic target-state reference for mature contemporary software engineering
• Identify and plan for software engineering strategic improvements, using artefacts such as roadmaps, maturity milestones and metrics, to guide transformation across technology teams
• Identify and implement mechanisms of reuse, knowledge sharing, synergies and collaboration between software delivery teams to improve delivery velocity
• Work across the SPP team to define digital transformation roadmap targets (including those related to data, cloud, platforms, identity etc.) with the purpose of advancing software engineering maturity, productivity and sustainability
• Partner with MinAus software teams to understand current-state priorities to be addressed across the DevSecOps lifecycle, though enabling enterprise, global and platform team service improvements

The role can be based at our Perth or Brisbane Office.

About you

As the successful candidate, you will possess the following:

• Diverse and demonstrated contemporary experiences working in software engineering, SDLC, and software development frameworks 
• Experience working on digital transformations of large, complex and distributed organisation
• Strong consulting and advisory skills ranging from analysis, strategy development, senior stakeholder engagement, influencing, facilitation and consensus building 
• Informed points of view on how evolving software engineering trends can create scaled business impact
• Relevant undergraduate qualifications in a technical discipline, preferably Engineering or Technology/IT

What we offer

Lifestyle  

• Flexible work, regular work from home. Family friendly. 
• Work engagement can be designed to suit your lifestyle, study, or family needs. Want to work 4 days a week or take all school holidays off? Talk to us! 

High profile and global impact! 

• Opportunity to create the digital future of BHP
• Make global and transformational impacts through technology, across all countries where BHP operates

Stability  

• Be a part of BHP’s long term strategic vision, to unlock the next wave of value from technological advantage. 
• Training and development.
• Large program of work with people, with lots of opportunities to explore other teams, products, and technologies.

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.