Your new roleHelp shape the future of operational planning and execution at Copper SA. MineDrive is a strategic digital initiative unifying mine development planning, scheduling and execution to improve visibility, decisions and performance..
Key responsibilities:
- Own MineDrive data pipelines and products using Snowflake, dbt, Apache Airflow/Astronomer and Python.
- Define canonical operational models, data contracts, lineage, quality controls and ownership across source systems.
- Build incremental, replayable, auditable and reproducible data products for application, optimisation and AI services.
- Manage reconciliation, schema evolution, historisation, source-system change and access governance pragmatically.
- Choose appropriate batch or event-driven patterns based on latency, reliability and operational needs.
- Review designs and pull requests; optimise Snowflake performance, reliability and cost; and implement monitoring and error handling.
- Support incidents, drive corrective actions and contribute reusable capabilities to the CuInsights data platform.
- Work with operational and product stakeholders to ensure data models reflect real planning concepts, decisions and workflows.
- 5+ years as a Data Engineer, including senior ownership of production data solutions.
- Strong hands-on Snowflake, dbt, Python and SQL experience, with Apache Airflow, Astronomer or a comparable orchestration platform.
- Strong data modelling and contract design skills, including incremental, replayable, observable and auditable ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Experience with complex operational data, historisation, reconciliation, schema evolution, lineage and reproducible outputs.
- Experience establishing engineering standards using Git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, design reviews and pull-request review.
- Ability to explain trade-offs and collaborate across product, operations, application, AI, cloud, security and platform teams.
- Great opportunity to work for planning and execution at Copper SA.
- We connect individuals with quality training and skills development, opening doors to new opportunities and economic participation.
- A career with the department means making a real difference - join us in building a skilled, adaptable, and vibrant workforce for Adelaide.
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