Are you an experienced Data Engineering and Business Intelligence professional who can turn complex data landscapes into trusted, governed reporting solutions? As our Senior Business Intelligence and Data Governance Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Liebherr-Australia’s BI capability, strengthening Power BI reporting practices, uplifting data quality, and preparing the organisation for its next stage of enterprise data governance and modern analytics.
This role is suited to someone who can move beyond dashboard delivery and help establish the foundations for a scalable, governed BI and data platform over the next two years. You will mentor junior analysts and developers, partner with business leaders, define standards and reusable patterns, and contribute to future roadmap decisions involving Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, or other enterprise data platforms. If you enjoy building capability, improving trust in data, and creating sustainable reporting practices, this is an opportunity to make a long-term impact.
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Lead the evolution of Business Intelligence across the organisation, creating a two-year roadmap that improves reporting maturity, data quality, governance, and self-service analytics.
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Design and champion BI standards, semantic model patterns, KPI definitions, workspace practices, access controls, lifecycle management, and report certification processes.
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Partner with business stakeholders to understand priorities, translate requirements into trusted data products, and ensure analytics solutions support operational and strategic decision-making.
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Provide hands-on leadership across Power BI solutions, including data modelling, DAX, report design, performance optimisation, deployment pipelines, security, and adoption of reusable enterprise datasets.
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Work with IT, applications, and data teams to improve data engineering practices, including SQL, data integration, ELT/ETL patterns, data warehousing, master data, and data quality controls.
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Contribute to future-state platform planning and proof-of-concept activities across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent cloud data platforms, ensuring choices align with business needs and governance principles.
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Establish practical data governance foundations covering ownership, stewardship, lineage, documentation, metadata, naming conventions, sensitivity, compliance, and issue resolution processes.
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Mentor junior BI team members through coaching, code and model reviews, solution design guidance, knowledge sharing, and the creation of repeatable delivery practices.
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Over 10+ years’ experience in Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Reporting, or Data Platform roles, ideally in a complex enterprise environment.
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Advanced Power BI capability, including data modelling, DAX, Power Query, semantic models, report performance, deployment, security, governance, and user adoption.
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Strong SQL, data modelling, dimensional modelling, data warehousing, ELT/ETL, integration, and data quality experience, with the ability to bridge business and technical discussions.
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Practical understanding of enterprise data governance, including data ownership, stewardship, lineage, metadata, master data, access management, privacy, and compliance considerations.
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Exposure to modern cloud analytics platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Services, Databricks, Snowflake, Lakehouse, Medallion Architecture, OneLake, or equivalent technologies highly regarded.
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Demonstrated ability to create standards, frameworks, documentation, reusable assets, and delivery practices that improve consistency and reduce reliance on individual report builders.
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Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and guide teams through change.
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Experience mentoring analysts, BI developers, or data practitioners, with a collaborative leadership style that builds confidence and capability in junior team members.
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Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business Intelligence, or related discipline. Certifications in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, data governance, or data management are highly regarded.
At Liebherr, we value your well-being. We offer a culture of recognition and reward, celebrating your contributions and ensuring you feel valued.
You'll have access to generous benefits like retail and medical insurance discounts, bonus leave days, parental leave, and comprehensive training programs, fostering your personal and professional growth.
Diversity and inclusion sit at the heart of the Liebherr Group's Core Values.
We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the communities in which we live, work and operate. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, teamwork and diversity of thought in the workplace
We are dedicated to seeing our employees work together in an environment that fosters the true meaning of collaboration; a culture that creates the highest quality, cutting-edge products, long-lasting relationships, and improved organisational and individual capabilities. We aim to give our employees an opportunity to grow and develop their careers.
PLEASE NOTE: Applicants successful in progressing past interview stage will be required to undergo a pre-employment process including National Police Clearance and Medical Screening process which includes drug and alcohol testing.
Liebherr Australia would like to thank you for submitting your application.
Please apply via the link.
Applicants Please Note: Liebherr has not engaged any recruitment agency or other third party for the recruitment of this role.
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Have we awoken your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your online application. If you have any questions, please contact Craig Salmon.
One Passion. Many Opportunities.
Liebherr-Australia Pty Ltd is part of the Liebherr Group, which employs nearly 50,000 people, in more than 140 companies and 50 countries on every continent. Liebherr's decades of experience, knowledge, and dedication to the highest quality and most reliable technologies makes Liebherr a respected leader and a trustworthy partner to industry. Liebherr-Australia is responsible for selling and servicing earthmoving machines, mining machines, mobile cranes, tower cranes, maritime cranes as well as deep foundation machines throughout Australia and New Zealand. Though the company's 20 hectare Head Office Complex is based in Adelaide, Australia, the commitment to, and support of, New Zealand customers is unwavering.
Liebherr-Australia Pty. Ltd.
1 Dr Willi Liebherr Drive
5096 Adelaide
Australia (AU)
