Principal Data & AI Platform Engineer

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 envisioning to scale value and impact through delivery of emergent AI solutions. Reporting to the Manager Data Platforms, your task as a Principal Data & AI Platforms Engineer, is to provide expertise in the design, implementation and continuous improvements 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 leverage to solve business problems, optimize business processes and deliver value through positive impact using Data, ML and AI techniques.

Key responsibilities :

• Work with the Advanced Analytics Platform team to provide expertise in guiding the design and engineering of platform changes for ongoing success of BHP’s core advanced analytics offerings (comprising of AWS, Azure and Snowflake technologies, e.g. Snowflake Cortex, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Bedrock, Azure ML, Azure Open AI as well as other emerging technologies) enabling our wide variety of user groups, customers and use-cases.
• Liaise closely with our Data Storage & Processing platform team (Snowflake, DBT, Confluent, Astronomer, Monte Carlo, Informatica) to provide seamless ingestion to consumption experience for our users embarking on advanced analytics.
• Liaise closely with our Visualisation product team (Power BI) to complement the existing analytics offerings with Advanced Analytics capabilities.
• Liaise closely with our Data Governance team (Collibra, Purview) to ensure Data governance and security requirements are addressed across e2e platform-enabled use cases.
• Liaise with project delivery partners, providing advice and consultations. Seek to continuously improve the Advanced Analytics platforms with automation opportunities, cost optimisation, monitoring and guidance on new feature releases.
• Define, communicate and maintain standards, frameworks, guidelines and best practice engineering guides for advanced analytics offerings.
• Fulfil a Data or AI Engineer role on customer projects, bringing your platform expertise to enable successful delivery of end to end solutions using our enterprise platforms.
• Pro-actively engage and collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, Data Strategy, Data Privacy & Compliance, Project Teams, Cloud & Network and other technology teams (Integration, ServiceNow, ERP, Microsoft 365 etc).

About You

You are a person with a drive for continuous learning and adaptable to new technologies.You enjoy keeping up to date with the latest happenings in the market in regards to data-centric platforms and emergent AI technologies.

You will bring your hands-on expertise in modern data centric technologies and AI solutions to the table, engineer and implement world-class Data and AI platforms. You are also an excellent communicator who can guide and influence project and program stakeholders across the organization.

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 at