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 Team

HR is building a new intelligence capability to change how we understand our workforce and make decisions about our people.

Our ambition is to move beyond reporting what has happened. We want to understand why it is happening, what is likely to happen next, and where we should act. That means combining workforce data, behavioural science, advanced analytics and AI to tackle some of the most important questions facing HR and the business.

As part of our Workforce Intelligence team, you will help build this capability and embed it directly into the way HR operates. You will work at the intersection of people, data, technology and decision-making, turning complex workforce questions into intelligence leaders can act on.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, is technically curious, and wants to help shape how AI and advanced analytics are used in HR.

About the Role

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will help shape and build the data foundations behind HR's emerging intelligence and AI capability.

The challenge goes well beyond moving data from one place to another. As HR increasingly uses advanced analytics and AI, we need data that is trusted, well understood and structured so that people, analytical models and AI agents are working from consistent definitions.

You will operate as a senior technical leader within our Data Engineering capability, working alongside other Principal-level capability and our Intelligence, AI and Digital Product teams. You will have significant autonomy to shape solutions, establish patterns and take technical ownership of complex data problems, while remaining close enough to the engineering to turn good architecture into working capability.

About You

We are looking for an experienced data engineer with the judgement to see beyond the immediate technical problem and build foundations that will continue to work as our analytics and AI capability grows. You will ideally bring:

• Deep experience designing and building enterprise-grade data platforms, models and reusable data products.
• Strong hands-on capability with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, SQL and Python, or equivalent enterprise platforms and languages.
• Experience building transformation pipelines and applying modern software and DataOps engineering practices such as version control, automated testing, CI/CD and monitoring.
• Strong data modelling capability and an understanding of semantic layers, reusable metrics, metadata and the importance of consistent business definitions.
• A track record of improving data quality, reliability, observability and trust in production environments.
• The ability to navigate imperfect and complex enterprise data and make pragmatic architectural decisions without compromising the foundations needed to scale.
• Experience working with data for advanced analytics, machine learning or AI applications. Direct experience making enterprise data usable by LLMs or AI agents would be particularly valued.
• The ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work effectively across data, technology and business teams.

Experience with HR or workforce data would be valuable, but it is not essential. We are equally interested in strong data engineers from other complex domains who are curious about how high-quality data can change the way organisations make decisions.

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 inclusion@bhp.com.