Data Science Lead Big W

**Data Science Lead
- **Permanent role**:

- **Bella Vista & Surry Hills office locations with WFH flexibility**:

- **Work on a range of data science projects
**What we're like
At BIG W everyday’s a big day. For you, this could be the start of something big.

There are over 15,000 of us, in the biggest cities and the tiniest towns. And each of us has an important role to play to help make a real difference for families by providing real value, real solutions and real care.

If you have a passion for designing and delivering great customer and team experiences, a desire to join a business that is rapidly evolving into a purpose led digital retailer enabled by a great store network, and you’re looking for a place that cares about your development and growth, you could be who we’re looking for.

**The Role
At BIG W, our ambition is to become a purpose-led digital retailer enabled by a great store network. Central to this ambition is the way we use data, analytics and insights to make better, more informed strategic customer, team and business decisions and delivering automation and artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate progress towards our ambition.

The Data Science & Analytics Lead will lead the translation of business use cases to clear Data Science & Analytics projects and oversee the development and delivery of cutting-edge solutions leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Some key responsibilities will include:

- Lead BIG W’s Data Science & Analytics capability, enabling the BIG W business to further unlock the rich value of our data and deliver exceptional experiences for our customers and team
- Lead and nurture the BIG W Data Science & Analytics Chapter, a technical team of 9 data science and data analytics professionals distributed across 3 delivery squads
- Communicate with leaders across BIG W and Data, Analytics & Insights to translate business requirements to clear data science problems
- Partner with Woolworths Group Technology and Group Data & Analytics leaders to identify, evaluate and deploy emerging technologies and methodologies to accelerate our Data Science & Analytics capabilities
- Define our BIG W Data Science & Analytics standards and service catalogue, ensuring the processes and techniques we use to deliver Data Science & Analytics capability are consistent, trusted and fit-for-purpose across our delivery squads. You will ensure the quality of technical delivery through your expert knowledge of Python & SQL (experience within GCP a significant advantage)
- Evangelise the use of Data Science & Analytics capabilities, and coach cross-functional teams to understand where and when different techniques can create value
- Support the cultural and capability shift of the organisation towards Data, Analytics and Insights
- Promote the use of Data, Analytics and Insights as means to answer the most important, well defined problems and curious questions to address customer, team and business challenges
- Take a visible & leadership role in nurturing a culture of curiosity and insights-led mindset at BIG W

**About You
To be successful in this role and thrive in our high performing and innovative culture, you will have a good understanding around how data & analytics can unlock the potential of the business and help realise BIG W’s ambition of becoming a purpose led digital retailer.

In addition you will:

- Experienced Data Science & Analytics leader, with a track record of growing a data science capability and community in a large organisation
- A continuous improvement mindset and an interest in supporting others to achieve business outcomes
- Deep understanding and passion for data, analytics and insights and how it can unlock real customer, team and business challenges
- Have previously led the adoption to a culture of curiosity and insights-led mindset

**What's in it for you?
- An attractive remuneration package including base, super and bonus.
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia both across BIG W and Woolworths.
- Opportunity to join the most engaging team in the business.
- Tech options - Woolworths is the largest employer of Google Apps in Australia, are early adopters of Agile and have BYOD options too.
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people.
- Flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive.

**Joining the Group
As part of the wider Woolworths Group, we care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage and we are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers,