Delivery Lead

About Ampol    

At Ampol, we believe in the Power of Us - the extraordinary power of people to connect, act, and make a difference.  

As a leading energy company operating across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and from the United States, our work spans fuel supply, energy solutions, convenience retail, infrastructure, trading and shipping. Every role at Ampol plays a part in something bigger - powering progress for our customers, communities, and people.  

Your career here is yours to shape. We back our people with real opportunities, the tools to grow, and a culture that rewards ownership and initiative. Whether you’re deepening your expertise or taking on something new, we’ll support you to power a career that works for you.  

We’re building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued - because when people are free to be themselves, powerful things happen 

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol   

Technology, Digital and Data at Ampol are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.   

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalized customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that TDD drives meaningful impact and measurable outcomes for the Ampol Group, leaving a lasting impact on our business and our customers.  

About the role: 
 

The Delivery Lead is accountable for enabling the Data Platforms team to deliver secure, reliable and scalable data capabilities using Snowflake and Databricks. Combining end-to-end delivery leadership with a hands-on Scrum Master remit, the role creates clear plans, healthy backlogs, disciplined execution and transparent reporting while removing impediments and strengthening team ways of working. 

The role works closely with a broad range of stakeholders across Engineering, Data, and the wider business. The Delivery Lead connects platform priorities with downstream demand, balances planned change with operational work, and ensures dependencies, risks and decisions are actively managed. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews and retrospectives; coach the team, Product Owner and stakeholders in pragmatic Scrum practices, and establish clear sprint goals, working agreements and definitions of ready/done. 
• Remove impediments, protect team focus and escalate systemic blockers, use delivery data to refine/improve approach
• Translate roadmaps and stakeholder demand into delivery plans, releases, epics and stories with clear scope, acceptance criteria and estimates. Lead quarterly, release, sprint and capacity planning; track milestones and dependencies, and report delivery status to governance forums. 
• Own the delivery RAID discipline with clear ownership, due dates and escalation paths - coordinate dependencies across teams (Data, Reporting, Ops, Cyber Security etc) surface risks early, before they impact commitments. 
• Use JIRA as the authoritative source for backlog, sprint, release and status information, with well-maintained boards, workflows and dashboards; use Confluence for decisions, plans and delivery artefacts; ensure traceability between objectives, work and outcomes. 
• Build technical understanding of Snowflake, Databricks and the wider data ecosystem to challenge assumptions and inform trade-offs
• Ensure platform work accounts for scalability, reliability, data quality, cost and production readiness

Qualifications & Experience 

• Proven track record as Delivery Lead/Manager or Scrum Master running complex tech/data teams, with strong Scrum practice - facilitation, coaching, backlog management, estimation and continuous improvement. 
• Experience managing delivery plans, capacity, risk/issue/dependency tracking, releases and stakeholder expectations, plus shaping epics/features/stories with clear acceptance criteria. 
• Advanced JIRA and Confluence skills (boards, workflows, dashboards, reporting, documentation). 
• Strong communication and influencing ability across technical, operational and business teams; sound judgement and comfort with ambiguity. 
• Working knowledge of cloud data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks preferred), data warehousing/lakehouse concepts, ETL/ELT, batch/streaming pipelines, SQL and Python, enough to engage credibly with engineers and data specialists. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD, version control, testing, environment management, monitoring, access controls and data governance. 

We’ll take you further by: 

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars! 
• We are flexible.  Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value. 
• We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values. 
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions. 
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work. 
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available. 
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme 
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses 
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.   

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.