Principal Software Engineering Coach Australia | Brisbane or Perth
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
In this newly created role, we are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Coach Australia to join the BHP Technology Strategy, Portfolio & Performance (SPP) team. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Strategy, and in collaboration with the Digital Strategy and Testing leads, this role will advance software engineering practices across BHP globally, with a focused coaching responsibility into software delivery teams based in Australia.
Specific accountabilities include:
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs, as well as strives to achieve 100% safety and 0% waste.
- 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 and adoption of BHP’s software engineering framework and digital ways of working in support of global digital transformation priorities.
- Collaborate strongly with the predominately Australia-based Strategy team members to understand and provide input into strategic and technical software engineering improvement roadmaps.
- 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 advocate mechanisms of reuse, knowledge sharing, synergies, and collaboration between software delivery teams to improve delivery velocity.
- Partner with MinAu software teams to understand current-state priorities to be addressed across the Software development lifecycle (SDLC), though enabling enterprise, global and platform team service improvements.
- Participate as part of the Enterprise Strategy Team to drive an inclusive and collaborative technical culture across all its team members.
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.
- Proponents of Cloud, DevSecOps, software testing, automation, lean engineering, and advance architecture such as microservices
- Experience in building strategy, whitepapers, and frameworks to guide delivery teams.
- Enjoy some hands-on experimentation of new emerging technologies and approaches.
- Experience working on digital transformations of large, complex, and distributed organisation.
- Strong advisory skills ranging from analysis, strategy development, senior stakeholder engagement, influencing, facilitation and consensus building.
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.
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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].