Data Engineer | Exploration Technologies

DATA ENGINEER | EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Be part of an exciting new global programme
• Engineer and support complex systems to manage huge datasets
• Turning business objectives into technical solutions
• Based in Perth or Brisbane

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Exploration team in a global transformational programme, DataXplorer. This programme of work will deliver an evolving ecosystem where trusted data is transformed, integrated, and made accessible via a suite of agile tools and workflows. This programme spans exploration, data and information management and analytics, driving greater value from data, delivering insights to geoscientists and making better decisions faster. Data discovery for discover from data.

Our exploration technical knowledge team within the Rio Tinto Exploration business, is responsible for transforming the way we find, evaluate and mine resources by developing and implementing ground-breaking technologies as part of our rapidly changing, data rich world.

You will play a key role in enabling data integration, removing silos, connecting workflows and general data wrangling of complex technical datasets. As part of the programme, you will enable our global operations through creating scalable, extendable, repeatable and sustainable outputs.

This is a great opportunity for a data engineer to work at the forefront of technology in a diverse and rapidly evolving field. We have a rich and rapidly growing repository of data to help map, prioritize and test the best minerals targets around the globe - from surface geochemistry, airborne geophysics, satellite remote sensing and drillhole spectral scanning data, to social and environmental data. This role is key to the future of our business.

Reporting to the Programme Lead and working in a newly created global team, you will be:

• Designing, building and maintaining data architecture solutions that enable us to deliver workflows and insights
• Connecting data and workflows to help remove silos, improve efficiencies and deliver new insights
• Improving decision-making through collecting, aggregating, and analysing data from multiple diverse sources
• Utilising the latest available technologies to flexibly manage and scale data pipelines and analytics models
• Building & maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions
• Fostering an innovative and “disruptive” technology culture to identify and drive value-creating opportunities
• Inspiring, coaching and mentoring the Rio Tinto Exploration community

What you will bring

• Passionate about data, and insights to be gained. Excited to make change

• Qualification in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• Proficiency in exploring and manipulating large datasets through applications or programming interfaces
• Demonstrated experience preparing data for Data Science using highly technical data sets (structured and unstructured)
• Cloud based solution design using containerisation and serverless architectures in AWS and/or Azure (Cloud Formation/ARM)
• Ability to write and optimise data queries and create efficient data extract/transform/ load (ETL) programs and tasks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and logically resolve technical problems
• Proficiency in SQL, Python/ R, Linux (Bash), Scala and Go (desirable)
• Software engineering experience desirable
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

Every Voice Matters

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.