Data Delivery Lead

Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

Your role at St John of God Health Care

We are seeking a well-rounded Data Delivery Lead to guide and support our data delivery team through the transition from on-premises SQL Server to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring stability, capability, and ongoing growth.

This role combines strong people leadership with solid technical expertise and a learner's mindset. You will lead a small team of data engineers, empowering them to deliver high-quality data solutions in a modernising environment. Success in this role relies as much on communication and team development as it does on technical skills. You'll help embed new practices for working in Google Cloud while maintaining reliable, scalable data solutions that meet both business and clinical needs.

The Position

• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of data engineers, supporting their growth in cloud data platforms.
• Organise and prioritise workloads to ensure clear task allocation and steady progress against delivery goals.
• Facilitate communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, simplifying complex challenges and proactively resolving blockers.
• Manage sprint planning, track progress, and continuously improve team processes.
• Foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and effective onboarding to build team cohesion.
• Support solution design, data modelling, and ETL processes, ensuring pipelines are reliable, reusable, and meet quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance in SQL Server and GCP environments, helping the team adopt cloud best practices

About you

You're a natural organiser and communicator who thrives on leading teams through change. You enjoy building confidence in others, translating technical details into practical outcomes, and keeping delivery on track during transitions.

You will bring:

• Proven experience leading teams in data engineering or data delivery.
• Strong communication skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational skills to manage priorities, backlogs, and delivery.
• Solid technical knowledge of SQL, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT processes.
• Familiarity with or enthusiasm for cloud data platforms (GCP preferred), with a willingness to learn and guide others.
• A collaborative leadership style that motivates, builds capability, and drives continuous improvement.
• A degree in IT, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related fields, with 5+ years' experience delivering complex data solutions.

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Highly competitive renumeration
• Permanent full-time opportunity, working 38 hours per week
• Based in our Melbourne CBD Office
• 40% working from home arrangement
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For enquiries, please contact Laura Pritchard, Group Manager Data and Reporting, on

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

Should suitable candidates be identified, shortlisting and interviews may commence prior to the advert closing.

Unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted at this time.