Specialist Data Projects

**Date**:4 Aug 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Western Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Perth

**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

BHP is generating large amounts of data from different sources and is scaling value through delivery of emergent AI solutions. As a Specialist Data & AI Platforms Engineer, reporting to the Lead Analytics Platforms, you will play a hands-on role supporting the design, implementation, and improvement of BHP’s core Data & AI Platforms and Technologies.

These platforms provide reusable, scalable, and sustainable capabilities for project teams and customer groups to solve business problems, optimise processes, and deliver value using Data, ML, and AI techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the Analytics Platforms team across key technologies (Snowflake, DBT, Confluent, Astronomer, Monte Carlo, Informatica) to deliver a seamless data and analytics experience for users.
- Collaborate with the Advanced Analytics Platform team to contribute to the design and implementation of enhancements across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake-based services (e.g. Snowflake Cortex, AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, etc.).
- Work closely with the Visualisation product team (Power BI) and the Data Governance team (Collibra, Purview) to support end-to-end platform delivery, ensuring governance and security requirements are met.
- Assist in the delivery of project outcomes by providing platform knowledge and implementation support to project teams.
- Contribute to automation, cost optimisation, and platform monitoring efforts under the guidance of senior team members.
- Follow and help maintain engineering standards, documentation, and guidelines.
- Participate in Agile ways of working, contributing to sprint ceremonies, planning, and team rituals.
- Collaborate with platform teams, architects, and delivery partners to understand requirements and support solution delivery.
- About You
- You are a hands-on learner who is eager to develop your engineering skills across modern data and AI platforms. You stay up to date with evolving technologies and enjoy contributing to the success of projects through your technical abilities, curiosity, and team-first approach.
- 2+ years in data/cloud engineering or platform engineering roles with exposure to cloud-native PaaS and SaaS technologies.
- Experience working with data and analytics platforms, such as enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, integration tools, or advanced analytics environments.
- Exposure to source control, CI/CD workflows, and automation practices.
- Some familiarity (professional or personal) with data science tools and libraries (e.g. Python, Jupyter, Pandas, TensorFlow, R).
- Interest or experience in MLOps and data science operationalization practices.
- An understanding of data integration, warehousing, or virtualisation concepts.
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps-oriented teams.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to learn from senior team members and share knowledge with others.

**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, 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 Opportunit