Specialists

The roles we place.

Five senior roles, placed on contract into enterprise environments - typically 6-12 months inside mining, energy and infrastructure operators. Every specialist is technically assessed by a practitioner before you meet them.

Senior only

No junior analysts. No generic report developers. No non-data PM or BA roles. If the seat is not senior and not data, Black Ocean is the wrong firm - and will say so.

01
Core role

Senior Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Specialist

The Microsoft analytics estate end to end: semantic models designed for scale, DAX that survives real data volumes, workspace and capacity governance, deployment pipelines, and the medallion architecture underneath - Lakehouse, Warehouse and Dataflows Gen2 - orchestrated in Fabric.

Typical engagement
6-12 months · enterprise environment · Perth-based or hybrid
The stack
Microsoft FabricPower BIDAXSQLPython notebooks
Assessed on
Semantic model design under enterprise volume
DAX and refresh performance tuning
Capacity, workspace and deployment governance
02
Core role

Senior Analytics Engineer

The transformation layer between raw source and reported number: star schemas at the right grain, KPI logic encoded at the data layer, everything tested, documented and version-controlled with CI - dbt-style discipline whatever the platform underneath.

Typical engagement
6-12 months · enterprise environment · Perth-based or hybrid
The stack
dbtSnowflakeSQLPythonGit & CI
Assessed on
Modelling judgement - grain, schema and metric design
Testing, CI and documentation discipline
KPI definitions encoded once, at the data layer
03
Core role

Senior Data Engineer

Ingestion, pipelines and orchestration on enterprise cloud platforms: batch and streaming sources, PySpark at scale, secrets and identity handled properly, environments promoted through code. The plumbing every layer above depends on.

Typical engagement
6-12 months · enterprise environment · Perth-based or hybrid
The stack
AzureDatabricksPySparkPythonSQL ServerSnowflake
Assessed on
Pipeline architecture and orchestration design
Spark performance at production scale
Security, identity and environment management
04
Core role

Senior BI & Analytics Lead

Runs a reporting estate as a product: standards and governance, workspace and capacity management, stakeholder cadence, and the consolidation and migration programs every mature estate eventually needs.

Typical engagement
6-12 months · enterprise environment · Perth-based or hybrid
The stack
Power BIMicrosoft FabricGovernanceMigration delivery
Assessed on
Estate governance and standards in practice
Migration and consolidation delivery
Stakeholder management at executive level
05
Core role

Data & Platform Architect

End-to-end platform architecture: platform selection and integration patterns, security and governance design, operational data integration - including SAP PM - and roadmaps that hold from procurement through production.

Typical engagement
6-12 months · enterprise environment · Perth-based or hybrid
The stack
Microsoft FabricSnowflakeDatabricksAzureSAP PM data
Assessed on
Architecture trade-offs argued from delivery experience
Integration patterns for operational data
Security and governance design
Also placed

Adjacent specialisms, same bar.

SAP PM & Operational Data Specialist

Maintenance and operational data - functional locations, work orders, planner groups - made analytics-ready.

Data Governance & Data Quality Lead

Ownership, standards and quality controls that hold up in operation, not just in a framework document.

Production AI/ML Engineer

Models that ship: forecasting, anomaly detection and document intelligence running in production, not notebooks.

Which seat needs filling?

Name the role - or describe the gap and we will calibrate it with you on the first call.

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