Principal Data Utility

BHP Group; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global resources company is seeking a Principal Data Engineer and Architect to establish data engineering capabilities for the Potash project in Saskatchewan. This role involves designing scalable data solutions, leading ETL pipeline development, and collaborating with teams globally. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, proficiency in various database technologies, and a Master's degree. This hybrid position offers a unique opportunity to influence the global data engineering landscape.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Travel opportunities

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• At least 10 years’ experience in Data Engineering or Architecture.
• Experience working within DevOps, Agile, Scrum or Continuous Delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts and end‑to‑end data pipeline development.

Responsibilities

• Establish data engineering capabilities for Potash.
• Design and develop integration solutions and ETL pipelines.
• Collaborate with regional Data Utility teams.

Skills

ETL and data warehousing tools

Hadoop

Spark

Python

Git

Data modeling techniques

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related field

Tools

Informatica

Talend

Pentaho

AWS services (S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Kinesis)

Kafka

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Principal Data Engineer and Architect

Date: 12 Feb 2026

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Job Country: Canada

Job State/Province: Saskatchewan

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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 Potash

The Jansen project in Saskatchewan, Canada is set to become one of the largest potash mines in the world and is located approximately 140 kilometers east of Saskatoon. As the largest investment in Saskatchewan’s history, Jansen is expected to generate approximately 5,500 workforce opportunities during construction and 900 long‑term roles. Once fully ramped up, Jansen is expected to have an initial production capacity of approximately 8.5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa), with the potential to produce 16 to 17 Mtpa in future stages. To find out more about Potash and the Jansen project, click here .

BHP has recently been named one of Canada's top 100 employers again for 2026. This formal recognition is a testament to our dedication to fostering a positive, diverse and rewarding work environment.

Purpose

The Principal Data Engineer and Architect establishes the data engineering capabilities for Potash, ensuring scalable design patterns, consistent practices, and high‑quality data solutions that support reliable, enterprise‑wide decision‑making.

About the Role

As a Principal Data Engineer and Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of data engineering for the Potash asset. This role blends deep technical capability with strategic architectural leadership.

You will partner closely with regional Data Utility teams around the world to remove technical blockers, uplift engineering practices, and drive consistency in design patterns, frameworks, and reusable components. You will help build and foster a data community —promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and alignment across teams.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with internal customers to understand their data requirements, model data structures, and design and implement scalable ingestion pipelines from operational and enterprise systems.
• Lead the design and development of integration solutions and ETL pipelines, ensuring high‑quality documentation and approval of engineering patterns.
• Collaborate with on‑prem and cloud platform teams to identify capability gaps and evaluate emerging tools and technologies.
• Work with the Enterprise & Global (E&G) Data Utility team to enhance and evolve the E&G data platform to meet customer needs.

This role offers the opportunity to design and shape the data platform and data ecosystem for Potash, and influence global engineering standards, support high‑impact data initiatives, and play a critical part in maturing BHP’s data engineering landscape.

Work Location

Downtown, Saskatoon office. 40 hours per week. Hybrid working (flexible, shared workstations and a combination of office and work from home) is standard for BHP. This position will require regular travel to the Jansen Mine Site. The roster schedule may be adjusted based on business requirements or as operations progress.

About You

You will have:

• Experience working across distributed processing, traditional RDBMS, MPP and NoSQL database technologies.
• Strong background with ETL and data warehousing tools such as Informatica, Talend, Pentaho or DataStage.
• Hands‑on experience with Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Impala and related platforms.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts, ETL principles and end‑to‑end data pipeline development.
• Solid knowledge of data modelling techniques (ERDs, star schema, snowflake schema).
• Experience with AWS services including S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift and Kinesis.
• Exposure to distributed processing (Spark, Hadoop, EMR), RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), MPP (Redshift, Teradata) and NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Titan).
• Experience designing and building streaming pipelines using tools such as Kafka, Kafka Streams or Spark Streaming.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least two of: Scala, SQL or Java.
• Experience deploying production applications, including testing, packaging, monitoring and release management.
• Proficiency with Git‑based source control and CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitLab.
• Strong engineering discipline including code reviews, testing frameworks and maintainable coding practices.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a related field.
• At least 10 years’ experience in Data Engineering or Architecture.
• Experience working within DevOps, Agile, Scrum or Continuous Delivery environments.
• Ability to mentor team members and support capability development across teams.
• Strong communication, listening and influencing skills.
• High levels of motivation, adaptability and problem‑solving capability.

Preferred

• Experience with structured, semi‑structured and unstructured data.
• Understanding of data governance, lineage and data quality approaches.
• Experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform.
• Exposure to workflow orchestration tools like Azkaban, Luigi or Airflow.
• Experience enabling data consumption through APIs, event streams or data marts.
• Experience with MuleSoft, Solace or StreamSets.

Bonus

• Experience in the mining or resources sector.

Application Deadline

This posting will be active until 11:59pm CST on February 26, 2026

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 several 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. The outcome of these checks is not determinative or whether or not BHP decides to make an offer of employment.

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Supporting a Diverse Workforce

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 is 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 recognize 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 [e-mail].

At BHP, we aim to unlock the enormous potential that diverse and inclusive teams bring to the workplace, to leave a strong legacy within and beyond our operations for the generations to come.

Based on existing demographics in our Potash project preference in hiring will be given to qualified women and Indigenous peoples who self‑identify as such in the application process. This reasonable and justifiable measure has been implemented pursuant to section 56 of The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018.

The BHP Jansen project marks the largest investment in Saskatchewan’s history, and with that growth will come significant employment opportunities. With first production projected to occur in mid‑2027, from now until the project fully ramps up there will be significant recruitment requirements over the coming months and years. To find out more about the project, hints and tips on our process and where a career with BHP Potash can take you, sign up to our talent updates here.