Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd, trading as Hexagon Mining is a technology company. Our mission is to put data to work autonomously – to measure progress and improve outcomes. We partner with mining companies uniting each individual and their data for informed decision making. We do this by connecting systems to work autonomously with data from all other systems - so those systems are no longer working in isolation. For mining companies to remain competitive, they must be efficient and proactive; connect processes and people for faster decision-making. With our world class sensors, software and technology that make sense of data in real time – mines can be safer, more sustainable, and make smarter decisions.  

Purpose of Position:

The Data Engineer is a key role for the delivery of Hexagon’s One Platform interoperable data vision.

You will have a proven track record in data engineering and you will have the opportunity to change an industry – to enable that industry to improve how it works with data across it’s entire value chain.

The Data Engineer responsibilities are;

• Champion best-practise and drive adoption of Hexagon’s data standards.

• Ensure data definitions are clearly defined and easy to consume.

• Enable the delivery of data-interoperablity across the entire mining industry value-chain.

• Train software development and data science teams on application of the data standards.

• Review new data definitions against data standards and advise required changes.

• Ensure data definition classification, definition overlap and versioning is managed.

• Identify and assist in defining new high-value data definitions for data science applications

• Work with BI report developers to identify gaps or improvements to data definitions.

Required Experience:

The Data Engineer role will draw on the following experience and be responsible as follows.

• 8+ years experience as a Data Engineer in a Mining Technology environment

• Understanding of the principles, tools and programs required for data engineering, reporting, analytics, visualisation and/or machine learning.

• Experience analysing data and with data engineering projects.

• Experience in writing and maintaining technology and data documentation.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience working with data standards that have been defined.

• Experience conducting data analysis and preparing reports.

• Experience working with data pipelines.

• Experience with data lakes and data lake tools

• Experience with coding such as SQL, NoSQL, Python.

• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities:

• Strong time management and prioritisation skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• High level of personal drive and self-motivation.

• Desire to expand own knowledge and skill set as well as share knowledge.

• Review, validate and contribute to technical documentation relating to the deployment of new data definition releases.

• Communicate progress status of work.

• Provide accurate estimates of remaining work.

• Compliance with Hexagon’s Workplace Health and Safety policies and procedures, participation in audits and compliance with instructions given in respect to the health and safety of himself / herself and the safety of others.

• Other duties as required from time to time.

Education

• A University qualification (Bachelor degree) in Computer Science, Engineering, Commerce, or a related qualification. Proven industry experience will be considered.