Data Platform and Operations Lead

From humble beginnings in 2011, Evolution Mining is now a leading gold producer, operating six mines across Australia and Canada. Enacting our vision to be inspired people creating a premier global gold company, we are indeed a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers our employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company. So, whether you choose to work at one of our underground or open pit operations, explore for our future as part of our Discovery team, or join our Group Office, we know you'll have a bright future with us. 

At our Group Office 

Working in our Group Office, you have a front row seat to our vision and are a part of the bold, inspired teams who are engineering its success. We're an agile, entrepreneurial company and we value smart people and creative thinking. When you work with us, you'll always have the opportunity to progress from where you started. Based in the Sydney CBD, our people work with teams located across Australia and Canada which makes for interesting work and countless ways to learn and grow.  

Your Benefits

At Evolution, we support, develop and reward everyone who chooses to be a part of our bright future. Your benefits include relocation support assistance, novated car leasing, life insurance and income protection, short term incentives, referral bonuses, recognition program, study assistance, discounted health insurance and wellness days.  

This role will work a 5/2 roster from the Sydney office with 2 days WFH option available 

We understand that flexible work means something different to everyone and encourage you to have a conversation about the flexible work options available. 

About the Role

As the Data Platform Lead, you'll be at the heart of Evolution Mining's enterprise data capability—owning the technical strategy, operations, and continuous improvement of our data platform. Reporting to the Group Manager – Enterprise Data & Analytics, you'll lead the delivery and support of our data infrastructure, ensuring it's scalable, secure, cost-effective, and aligned with business needs.

You'll manage relationships with internal stakeholders and our external managed service provider, define SLAs, and drive performance across data lakes, warehouses, ingestion pipelines, and analytics layers. This role is critical to enabling business outcomes through reliable, high-performing data services.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering and evolving the data platform technical roadmap
• Ensuring platform reliability, performance, and compliance
• Managing vendor relationships and service delivery
• Driving cost transparency and optimisation
• Supporting data governance and analytics enablement
• Championing continuous improvement and innovation

This is a strategic and hands-on role for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about building data platforms that empower decision-making across the organisation.

About You

You're a technically accomplished data platform leader with deep expertise in cloud-native data architecture, engineering, and analytics enablement. You understand how to build scalable, secure, and cost-effective data platforms that support enterprise-wide decision-making and operational efficiency.

To thrive in this role, you'll bring:

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2. Extensive experience in enterprise data engineering, including ingestion pipelines, ELT/ETL frameworks, and medallion architecture
3. Hands-on expertise with cloud data platforms, especially Databricks, and transformation tools like DBT or Coalesce
4. Strong capability in metadata management, data quality frameworks, and implementing governance-aligned data pipelines
5. Proficiency in BI and reporting tools, particularly Power BI, with a track record of enabling self-service analytics
6. Experience with enterprise integration technologies such as Mulesoft or Boomi, supporting seamless data flow across systems
7. Architectural governance skills, ensuring platform solutions align with enterprise standards and ARB processes
8. Ability to manage vendor relationships, define SLAs, and oversee performance of managed service providers
9. Cloud cost optimisation experience, including forecasting, resource allocation, and implementing cost transparency models
10. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose platform issues and drive continuous improvement
11. A strategic mindset, with the ability to align platform evolution with business goals and emerging technologies (including AI opportunities)

You're not just a platform operator—you're a platform enabler. You know how to connect technical capability with business value, and you're ready to lead the next phase of Evolution Mining's data platform journey.

At Evolution, as our name suggests, change and transformation is in our DNA. We want the Evolution experience to be your career highlight. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce that represents the communities in which we operate. We provide a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all and candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We are focused on keeping our people safe and healthy and creating sustainable value in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Join our bold team to start your next exciting chapter.  

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