Solutions Architect

• Work in a high-performing team building strategic technology for a growing business
  
• Opportunity to use contemporary software development tools and techniques
  
• Contribute meaningfully to the outcome of the customer
  
• Based in Singapore, global commercial hub for Rio Tinto
  

About the role
Our new Commercial Services & Digital team will streamline and guide how we invest in and harness technology for Commercial. This team will modernise and digitise our manual processes, addressing pain points for employees and focus on initiatives for improving customer experiences. We see Commercial Services as the engine room with their focus on post deal tasks such as invoicing, trade finance, shipping and laytime. Commercial Services & Digital is a unique opportunity to bring digital closer to the business, to create more synergies between teams and bring together business improvements to achieve business excellence.

We're looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to embed within a high-performing engineering team to help build the deal capture, valuation and reporting tools powering the integrated trading business at Rio Tinto. Our Solution Architects play a critical part in the end-to-end market facing capability of the Commercial organization by connecting the dots across the trading landscape and leading the technical design decisions across the engineering team.

The team does this by using modern techniques, tooling and behaviours to deliver software as quickly as possible. You'll build on the culture, values and engineering principles that has made the team successful, reinforcing the speed and agility achieved thus far by taking a principled approach in software design. You'll be asked to learn new things quickly and accomplish a wide range of tasks, all focused on designing technology solutions covering transactional activity, market risk and credit risk analysis.

Reporting to the General Manager Commercial Services & Digital, you will be:

• Come ready to do the best work of your life and influence your team to do the same
  
• Understands business functions and transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created to meet the business outcomes and IT objectives
  
• Lead architecture design and development, testing, and deployment of scalable solutions.
  
• Create working skeleton or prototype for architectural components
  
• Work with product managers and analysts to define technical requirements and implementation strategies across Rio Tinto's trading landscape
  
• Provide technology perspective to business to achieve roadmap and prioritization by keeping abreast with industry trends. Where required, help business size the complexity of problem and help simplify and define MVP
  
• Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the development project
  
• Interface with the formal IT organization to drive collaboration where necessarily, especially in integration with enterprise systems and relevant compliance requirements
  
• Partner with the front and middle office where necessarily to describe and implement best practice in commodities trading
  
• Be a single point contact for any escalation pertaining to solution architecture and design
  

What you will need for the role
To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Around 15 years relevant experience as an architect or software engineer in a trading environment
  
• Ability to implement models in Python, R, VBA/Excel, Matlab or other technical computing language to demonstrate or articulate requirements
  
• Demonstrated ability to work both with senior business stakeholders as well as software engineers, translating requirements and fostering a culture of product delivery
  
• Demonstrated ability to piece together an application landscape across a complex business process, design technical solutions from scratch and usher through to deployment
  
• Professional experience working with risk concepts such as VaR, volatility surfaces, non-linear product valuation, potential future exposure, Monte Carlo simulation and the like
  
• Good understanding of a wide variety of linear and non-linear financial instruments and markets including futures, vanilla options, swaps, forwards, exotics and structured products
  
• Good understanding of cloud native architectures and design, specifically AWS services such as S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS (Postgres), API Gateway and Fargate
  
• Excitement about trading and financial markets and motivated to learn and explore
  

It would also be beneficial if you have:

• Advanced knowledge and coding abilities in Python and other lower level languages (e.g. C++)
  
• Experience using SQL to query and manipulate large data sets
  

Where you will be working
Rio Tinto Commercial puts the company's value over volume approach into practice, with the goal of maximizing the value of our physical flows to improve both our business and that of our customers. Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto's assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customer's needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost and capital expenditure.
About us
As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.

Aluminium for cars and smartphones. Copper for wind turbines, electric cars and the pipes that bring water to our home. Iron ore to shape our city skylines. Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life.

Our long history is filled with firsts. We've developed some of the world's largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents.


Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce
We are a diverse team of talented, enthusiastic individuals who foster a culture of inclusion. No matter how they may differ, our people share one thing in common. It's a belief that work is more rewarding when we are accepted and valued for our differences, not judged by them. We all have something to contribute, and it's this contribution that makes for a great organization and fulfilling career.

Application Deadline: 15 May 2021

Please note, in order to be considered for a role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

"Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible."