Principal Advisor Platform Technical Lead

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• This role will expose you to exciting technology and allow you to partner with multiple teams and organisations
• Permanent position based in Brisbane or Perth

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor Platform Technical Lead, to ensure that all technical delivery complies with the appropriate Rio Tinto standards and design principles as well as the Operational Data Platform (ODP) blueprint itself. This role is responsible for the development and management of the ODP architecture through engagement with external partners to keep abreast of emerging, value contributing technology as well as the business to maintain alignment to business need. The role also performs quality assurance activities as part of delivery

This role is a great opportunity for a person with deep domain expertise to be part of Rio Tinto's data transformation and support the organisation on the journey.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager Data Platforms and working in collaborative and exciting environment within our global IS&T Operations team, you will:

• Be the single accountable "owner" of the Operational Data Platform (ODP) technical architecture in order to drive alignment and standardisation of platform deployments across Rio Tinto;
• Be accountable for the overall quality assurance of the ODP blueprint and deployments, including the successful completion of QA checkpoints;
• Ensure the overall platform blueprint and architecture is continually evolved and improved balancing business requirements, standardisation, industry leading technology/practices;
• Embed Agile methodology (and Azure DevOps) into the way we work to ensure delivery/support teams deliver outcomes efficiently to the customer and to ensure repeatability exists within deployments to drive standardization;
• Review and rate external services contracts, emerging technology, identify issues and assess solution options against data platforms architecture to ensure maximum return on investment for Rio Tinto;
• Support business units by investigating operations-related problems/inquiries, coordinate solutions and building business cases;
• Drive quality outcomes for the business by ensuring an adequate test strategy is in place and is being executed;
• Ensure development/support teams are adequately versed with the platform architecture, standards, "how to's", learnings through the provision of reference materials, training material, coaching forums so as to minimise divergence/bespoke development and manage escalations
• Manage vendors and partners deliverables and expectations to ensure the best interest of Rio Tinto are always met;
• Develop roadmaps with IST BP's and other key stakeholders to ensure the ODP platform remains alignment to business objectives and is delivering on business priorities;
• Challenge the current thinking and work with the required SME's both internal and external to assess design alternatives and provide recommendations to Strategy & Architecture team;
• Provides the necessary technical leadership to design teams to develop solutions for highly complex areas with requirements spanning multiple Product Groups and stakeholders

What you'll bring

• Experience with Agile Delivery Methodology
• Work with geographically dispersed teams;
• Previous solution architecture roles across operational & business systems/projects
• Proven experience using the Microsoft Azure solution stack
• Strong experience in engaging IT disciplines to ensure business alignment of solutions
• Strong written and verbal communications skills including ability to interact well to GM level
• Ability to build consensus and capture & develop expertise in business processes
• Demonstrated understanding of full solution delivery lifecycle, esp. analysis, PM and RTP methods
• Ability to share new findings and best practices
• Self-motivated, excellent team player
• Current or completion of study of relevant degree (desirable)
• Working in IT a global / multi-national, diversified corporation
• Working with multiple stakeholders, in multiple regions with varying time-zones
• Working in an outsourced environment

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 Information Systems and Technology (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.