Software Engineering Coach
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.
In this newly created role, you will 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:
- Customer centric, as well as strives to achieve 100% safety and 0% waste.
- Leads adoption of BHP’s software engineering strategy, guidance, standards and framework in support of global digital transformation priorities, taking into account MinAus maturity
- 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.
- Collaborate strongly with the largely Australia-based Strategy team members to understand and provide input into strategic and technical software engineering improvement roadmaps
- Identify and plan for software engineering strategic improvements, using artefacts such as roadmaps, maturity milestones and metrics, to guide transformation across technology teams
- 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.
About You
- Diverse and demonstrated contemporary experiences working in software engineering, SDLC, and software development frameworks
- Proponents of Cloud, DevSecOps, 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 consulting and 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.
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.