Date: 22 Jul 2026
Location: Perth, AU
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Company: Covalent Lithium Pty Ltd
About Us
At Covalent Lithium, we are genuinely passionate about creating a clean energy future and supporting our teams who enable this vision.
Following the commissioning of our mine and concentrator at Mt Holland in 2024, we recently celebrated our first production of battery -grade lithium hydroxide at our Kwinana Refinery. We are now a fully integrated mine-to-refinery operation, supplying high quality lithium hydroxide to global markets and enabling approximately 1 million electric vehicles to go on the road, every year for the next 50 years.
We are proud to foster a culture where people with different skills, experiences and backgrounds are welcomed and set-up for success.
Employee Benefits
We support, empower and reward our people with a range of benefits:
Competitive remuneration, and annual incentives for eligible employees
Access to discounts, recognition and rewards
Access to flexible work arrangements
Dedicated wellbeing program support and discounted health insurance
Equal access to paid parental leave, financial support, return to work and parenting room
Salary sacrifice options for superannuation and novated leasing
The Role
As Data & Analytics Team Lead, you will lead the delivery and evolution of Covalent's Digital Data Platform (DDP), ensuring reliable, scalable and secure data and reporting services are available across the business.
You will manage a small team of data professionals, oversee the analytics roadmap and demand pipeline, and drive the delivery of data products and services that support operational excellence, business performance and informed decision-making.
Working closely with operational, corporate and technology stakeholders, you will identify opportunities to improve outcomes through data, translate business needs into practical analytics solutions, and help build a stronger data-driven culture across the organisation. The role combines people leadership, platform ownership, stakeholder engagement and analytics delivery, supported by modern Microsoft Azure technologies and a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
This is a full-time, permanent position, Monday to Friday, with the flexibility to be based from either our Perth CBD or Kwinana office
Key Responsibilities
- Work on multiple cross-functional work initiatives and projects as guided by the Superintendent Applications Architecture and Data.
- Active participation in ITSM processes.
- Assist with the development and implementation of data strategies.
- Identification and analysis of business data and reporting requirements.
- Engage with users and stakeholders to determine data and reporting needs.
- Maintain and improve data, integration, analysis and reporting services.
- Drive mature process and documentation practices within team.
- Assist to build secure, scalable and performant data analytics solutions within the DDP.
- Work with Architects, Data Engineers and Project Managers within a project setup to design, develop and implement data services.
- Act as an escalation point for queries and more complex calls.
- Other duties as and when required by Superintendent Applications Architecture and Data.
Financial/Budget
- Manage relevant budget and expenditure.
- Ensure compliance with budget and expenditure protocols and procedures.
- Create purchase requisitions and review invoices against scope of work.
Leadership and Team
- Living the Covalent values of Care, Purpose, Collaboration and Accountability
- Ensure personnel within your direct report are appropriately supervised, informed, instructed and trained.
- Manage and support the development of the team in leading effective practices and driving improvement and innovation.
- Development of data capability/transformation within the business through training, coaching and career development.
Health, Safety, Environment and Community
- Active participation in the establishment of a health and safety culture
- Comply with all health and safety, environmental and regulatory policies relating to the project and ensure a safe working environment.
- Ensure all health, safety and environmental incidents are reported
Role Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, or related experience
- Exposure to the Oil and Gas, Mining and Infrastructure industries preferred.
- Good understanding of Data Warehousing/ETL concepts.
- Experience with data integration and ingestion
- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps/GIT
- Extensive Experience with Azure Data Factory, T-SQL and Python
- Experience with owning and managing a data platform with data and reporting services.
- Demonstrated experience in an ITSM role, with a customer service focus.
- ITIL v4 Certification (desirable)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (desirable)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (desirable)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (desirable)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer - Associate (desirable)
A competitive remuneration package commensurate with the role, candidate experience, skills and qualifications will be offered.
Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Candidates from all backgrounds and ages are encouraged to apply, including First Nations People, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities and those with neurodiverse, intersectional, or multiple diverse characteristics.
Covalent Lithium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, with a focus on our employees. We recognise skills, expertise, commitment and living our values of Purpose, Care, Accountability and Collaboration. Our goal is to attract, develop, motivate, reward, and retain the best people in the industry.
