Specialist Applications

Applications Specialist - Technical Systems

• Excellent opportunity to work with new technologies and develop your career
• Work in an environment where people are valued and respected
• Permanent position based in Perth CBD

About the role

We are looking for an Applications Specialist Technical Systems who will be the subject matter expert in Operational Technology and Applications Management.

This role is a great opportunity for a collaborative person to work in a complex applications, integration and database space with vendors to ensure support and projects are delivered.

Reporting to the Superintendent Technical Systems, and working in collaborative, challenging environment within our IS&T Technology Platforms Team, you will:

• Work with legacy and modern technology simultaneously
• Provide expertise on how enterprise systems can be integrated to meet business requirements.
• Technically own the suite of applications and platforms and will help maintain and continuously improve them.
• Maintain and improve business processes, application reference architectures, supporting frameworks and drive the use of relevant standards across the portfolio and product teams.
• Drive the end-to-end functional definition, design, configuration, and testing of solutions in line with agreed strategies and direction.
• Define, maintain, and drive the use of relevant standards.
• Provide local knowledge comprising business acumen, an understanding of application usage within the organisation, application capability, lessons learnt and future direction.

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Substantial exposure to application architecture (both legacy and modern applications and/or technology) with large scale and diverse organisations
• Ability to quickly learn the modern applications and data landscape.
• Practical experience with managing multi-vendor, support and solution delivery teams.
• Degree qualified or higher in IT or related degree
• A result driven approach with the ability to work autonomously and within the team
• Excellent collaboration, influencing and negotiation abilities with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical resources

It will also be beneficial if you have: 

• Qualifications in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Understanding in Agile Frameworks (e.g., SCRUM)
• Experience in the delivery of Applications within the mining or resource sector
• Experience in rail, ports, HME or mining supply chain

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety and mental health is always the number one priority.
• Competitive base salary plus annual incentive program.
• Comprehensive medical benefits including fully subsidised private hospital insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Attractive employee share scheme.
• Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).

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 IS&T operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

Every Voice Matters

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.

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.