Lead Data Scientist

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As part of our digital transformation business, you’ll help clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good. 
And we’ll help you stimulate new thinking, accelerate your career and connect you to projects that really matter. 
Join our team of over 600 data scientists, design thinkers, immersive digital consultants, project managers and innovators, all working to create positive change for generations to come.
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This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people-focused guidance, supporting a small team of specialists to deliver high-quality outcomes across complex projects.

Who are we looking for?

We’re seeking a Data, AI & Location Intelligence Lead to lead our GHD Digital team in Perth, helping shape the strategic direction of data, AI, analytics, GIS and location intelligence capability across GHD’s project landscape.

This is a strategic and hands-on opportunity to lead a specialist team, partner as a trusted technical voice across project teams, and contribute credibly to client conversations that bring more advanced analytics, GIS and big data work into GHD. 

You’ll join the team at a pivotal point of growth as data, location intelligence, analytics and digital advisory capabilities become more closely connected across APAC, creating new opportunities for cross-collaboration and capability uplift.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, this role offers variety and impact, and will see you involved in:

• Lead and coach a small specialist team across data, AI, location intelligence, GIS and geospatial disciplines to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes

• Balance hands-on technical delivery with leadership accountability, including prioritisation, delegation, quality review and stakeholder engagement

• Mentor and grow the team's capability across geospatial and Microsoft Azure data and AI tooling, fostering a collaborative, accountable team environment that supports continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and strong delivery standards

• Contribute to the design and delivery of complex data, AI/ML, analytics and location intelligence initiatives using platforms such as Esri, Azure, Fabric, AI Foundry, and Power BI, drawing on broader GHD expertise where deeper specialisation is needed

• Promote responsible AI, data governance and secure solution patterns to support safe, scalable and efficient project execution

• Partner with internal project teams across environment, natural resources, infrastructure and digital advisory contexts to translate complex technical challenges into practical, scalable solutions

• Partner with GHD's domain experts, project teams and pursuit leads to bring data, AI and location intelligence into client conversations, helping weave spatial science, advanced analytics and big data capability into the work we're winning

  
  

What you will bring to the team:

• Experience leading or coordinating a small technical team, squad or project-based group, including mentoring others across AI/ML, analytics, data and geospatial disciplines

• Ability to support specialists with prioritisation, problem-solving and quality assurance

• Collaborative leadership style that builds trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Practitioner-level capability across both geospatial platforms (Esri) and the Microsoft data and AI stack (Azure, Power BI, Fabric, AI Foundry), with the ability to see where the two combine to create client value
• Strong capability in application analysis, design, development and deployment using SQL or Spark SQL, Python or PySpark, GIS tools and data visualisation techniques

• Confidence and credibility in client-facing technical conversations, with the ability to translate technical capability into client value without owning the commercial relationship

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams, including priorities, schedules, risks, issues, reporting and proposal contributions
• Exposure to consulting, environment, natural resources, infrastructure or engineering project environments, with the ability to work effectively through internal partnerships and cross-functional teams
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of experience in Computer Science, GIS, Data Science, AI, Engineering or a related discipline
• Relevant industry certifications or credentials (e.g. Microsoft Azure, GISP, or equivalent).

You’ll be at your best when translating complex technical challenges into practical solutions, while helping a small team of specialists stay aligned, supported and focused on meaningful outcomes across data, AI, location intelligence and GIS, and bringing your technical credibility into client conversations that open new opportunities for GHD.

Interested? Apply now.
Contact: Kate Chamberlain

GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities. 

GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where our people can thrive. This supports the diverse needs of our workforce while balancing the benefits of remote working with the value of face-to-face collaboration in the office. 

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage. 

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