Data Engineer

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation

Roster: Monday to Friday 

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity.

The key mission of this role will be to support our modern data engineering platform to enable AI-driven decision-making within operations.

The right candidate will excel at building and maintaining reliable, scalable and high-quality data pipelines & products to enable a range of data missions including reporting, advanced analytics, AI and experimentation control.

Key Responsibilities

• Build reliable data infrastructure and production pipelines for our operational systems.
• Integrate data from various sources using ETL or ELT processes.
• Create data models to organize and structure data for analysis and reporting.
• Implement processes to monitor data quality.
• Respect and advance governance and security principles.
• Optimize data storage and processing performance.
• Troubleshoot issues and ensure platform resilience.
• Collaborate with data analysts and scientists for data-driven insights.
• Play a significant role in enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and data requirements.
• Evaluate and select appropriate data technologies and tools for specific data initiatives.
• Design data models, data integration strategies, and data storage solutions for efficient data management.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field.
• 2-3 years' experience as a data analyst, software engineer or data engineer.
• Demonstrated ability to work with data using SQL and python.
• Demonstrated ability to work within squad-based agile ways of working.
• Developing understanding of infrastructure and processes used for data engineering.
• Developing ability to test, iterate and deploy data models independently.
• Demonstrated knowledge in at least one relevant domain.
• Demonstrated ability to elicit clear requirements from stakeholders.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.