Principal Data

Company description:

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.

Job description:

About the Role

BHP is generating large amounts of data from different sources and envisioning to scale value and impact through delivery of emergent AI solutions. Reporting to the Manager Data Platforms, as a Principle Data & AI Platforms Engineer you will play a hands-on role providing expertise in design, implementation and continuous improvement of BHP's core Data & AI Platforms and Technologies.

These platforms provide re-usable, scalable and sustainable capabilities enabling project teams and customer groups to focus on solving business problems, optimise processes and deliver positive impact using Data, ML and AI techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate across Data, Visualisation, AI and Governance platform teams to engineer seamless data and analytics experience to users. You will be working across key technologies providing an integrated platform offering - Snowflake, Power BI, AWS SageMaker, Collibra, MS Purview.
• Focus on scaling out of emergent AI/ML, GenAI and Agentic platform capabilities - e.g. AWS Agent Core, AI Foundry, Snowflake Cortex, Copilot Studio, Bedrock, OpenAI, Graph databases, AI Catalogue/Governance.
• Assist in the delivery of use-cases by providing platform knowledge, design and implementation support to delivery team (business, technology or project).
• Lead platform automation, cost optimisation, monitoring and enabling new platform feature releases.
• Engage with wide variety of engineering, analytics and user groups to enable them to leverage platform capabilities following self-service, start-here experiences (showcases, demos, labs, reference examples).
• Define, communicate and maintain standards, frameworks, guidelines and best practice engineering guides for platform offerings.
• Participate in Agile ways of working, contributing to sprint ceremonies, planning, team-routines and rituals.
• Pro-actively collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, Data Strategy, Data Privacy & Compliance, Applications, Cloud & Network and other technology teams (Integration, ServiceNow, ERP, Microsoft 365) ensuring Platform capabilities integrated into the broader landscape and addressing enterprise concerns.

About You

You are a hands-on learner who is eager to continuously learn and 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.

• 5+ years in hands-on data/cloud engineering or data platform engineering orientated roles with primarily cloud-based PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• 5+ years professional exposure to modern/cloud data centric platforms and infrastructure - including enterprise data warehouses/data lakes, master data, integration platforms, data virtualisation, reporting/data warehousing and advanced analytics platforms.
• 2+ years' experience and expertise in source control and CI/CD practices.
• Hands-on experience with common data science libraries, languages, and tools (e.g. Jupyter Notebooks, TensorFlow, R-scripting, Python, Pands etc).
• Exposure and understanding of emerging AI/ML/GenAI and Agentic technologies (e.g. Snowflake Cortex, AWS Agent Core, AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Bedrock, OpenAI)
• Experience and knowledge of general AI and Data science practices - including common algorithms and AI/ML Ops, Prompt engineering, RAG.
• Experience in creation of data platform related patterns and/or engineering best practices/guides for wide user consumption
• Understanding and application of data integration, warehousing, data mesh, AI/ML and Agentic concepts, patterns, techniques and principles.
• Strong experience working within an Agile, DevOps and Product Team mindset.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, guiding and influencing business and technical stakeholders across the organisation.

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.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

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