Lead Technical Management | Adelaide
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Job Summary
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
Step into a career-defining opportunity at the forefront of digital transformation in mining. As the leader of a high-impact cross-functional team reporting to the Manager Digital Copper South Australia youll architect and deliver intelligent software solutions that power our operations and redefine whats possible in copper production.
This isnt just a leadership role its your chance to shape the future. Youll spearhead the development of AI-powered user experiences champion cutting-edge developer practices and tackle complex systemic challenges with bold thinking and technical excellence. Collaborating across disciplines youll foster a culture of innovation where diverse perspectives drive continuous improvement and breakthrough results.
As a strategic thought leader youll help chart the digital course for Copper SA transforming ambitious ideas into scalable high-value solutions that unlock new potential across our people systems and performance. Your influence will extend beyond code and platforms shaping how we work innovate and lead in a rapidly evolving industry.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead a cross-functional team to rapidly assess business challenges and deliver scalable digital solutions (including AI data science and machine learning) through the development of modern applications using frameworks (React and AWS) and backend languages (Python and C#).
- Collaborate across DevOps and data engineering teams to enhance operational excellence and enable advanced analytics by contributing to CI/CD pipeline design release processes infrastructure provisioning and the development of scalable data pipelines and ETL workflows.
- Enhance data models and storage for high-performance analytics and AI-driven insights while ensuring robust data governance quality and lineage across the digital ecosystem.
- Oversee disaster recovery change management and incident response to ensure resilient and secure software delivery.
- Promote reusable components modular and loosely coupled architecture and AI-augmented development practices.
- Foster a collaborative environment where diverse teams can contribute to technical excellence and innovation.
- Mentor and coach engineers to build technical capability across the team; as well as maintain a pool of high calibre expertise and a preferred external network on current and emerging industry best practice across core disciplines to share high value opportunities for replication lessons learnt and to respond to Asset requests for advice on problems of a technical nature relating to Digital AI automation and data.
- Define and communicate technical strategy by translating complex requirements and strategic objectives into clear business-relevant narratives that articulate value risk and actionable priorities.
- Maintain a broad network of influence across BHP and the industry to establish minimum sufficient requirements that maximize asset value fulfill external commitments and mange risks that are material at the Asset Level.
- Shape product roadmaps to balance technical debt and feature delivery aligning technical priorities with business goals.
About You
- With significant years of experience leading technical teams in digital application development and DevOps environments with a strong grasp of modern architectures (e.g. microservices cloud-native event-driven) software development lifecycles and DevOps methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt leadership styles to drive delivery continuous improvement and collaboration across diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code and secure coding practices aligned with regulatory compliance.
- Skilled in translating business strategy into scalable sustainable technical roadmaps that deliver customer value and reduce waste.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and product development lifecycles including platform engineering and developer experience (DevEx) initiatives.
- Committed to achieving 100% safety 100% customer value and 0% waste through tenacity determination and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
- Holds a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
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 thats more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included treated fairly and with are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includesgenderage 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.
Key Skills
- Administrative Skills
- Facilities Management
- Biotechnology
- Creative Production
- Design And Estimation
- Architecture
About Company
At BHP what we produce is essential for the world to continue to grow and make the transition to cleaner energy possible.
