Job Description
Every day, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent, reward transparency, champion diversity and embrace change.
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Join us and hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow through mentorship, collaboration, and empowerment.
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The Prospect
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As Lead Data Engineer, you will provide both technical and people leadership, overseeing a team of data engineering professionals while shaping the future of Thiess' enterprise data and analytics capability.
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Working closely with business stakeholders, architects, analysts and technology teams, you will lead the delivery of high-quality data products and platforms that support operational reporting, advanced analytics and AI-driven decision making. You'll play a key role in establishing engineering standards, modernising data architecture and ensuring our platform continues to evolve to meet the needs of a growing global business.
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Key Responsibilities
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Lead, mentor and develop a team of Data Engineers and technical specialists.
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Drive the ongoing evolution of Thiess' enterprise data platform and data lakehouse architecture.
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Design, develop and support scalable data pipelines, integrations and reusable data products.
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Establish and maintain data engineering standards, development frameworks and best practices.
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Oversee platform operations, monitoring, optimisation, incident management and continuous improvement.
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Work with stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into practical data solutions.
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Champion data governance, data quality, metadata, security and lineage practices.
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Lead major platform initiatives, deployment activities and data solution delivery.




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Promote modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing and DevOps methodologies.
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Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve analytics, reporting and AI readiness across the business.
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About You
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You are a highly capable technical leader with strong experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud data platforms. You enjoy leading teams, solving complex data challenges and delivering solutions that create measurable business value.
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To be successful, you will have:
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Experience leading and mentoring Data Engineering teams or technical specialists.
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Proven success designing, developing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
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Experience delivering data lakehouse, data integration, data modelling and analytics solutions.
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Experience within the mining, resources or heavy industry sector will be highly regarded.
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Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence across technical and business audiences.
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Experience establishing engineering standards, governance frameworks and delivery practices.
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Demonstrated leadership in driving technical capability, innovation and continuous improvement.
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Excellent communication, coaching and people leadership skills.
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Experience working within large,



complex operational environments.
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What we offer
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At Thiess, our people are the heart of everything we do. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive - safely, confidently and with opportunities to grow.
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Competitive salary package.
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Ongoing training & development opportunities.
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A strong safety-first culture across all operations, built on care, respect and accountability.
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Range of corporate discounts including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products.
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About us
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Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia, and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining. The pioneering spirit of our founders - the legendary Thiess brothers - is our legacy and has inspired our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change for more than 90 years.
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Learn more aboutOur Vision, Purpose & Values.
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At Thiess, we're creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing and continuous learning - supporting our people to contribute to Thiess' success and continued growth in sustainable mining.
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We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision: everyone matters always. We're focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included, and empowered.
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Learn moreabout working at Thiess.
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Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check, and a medical assessment.
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Applications close: Monday 31 August ****
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