AddressHR Data Engineer
- Tremendous opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
- Great work life balance and attractive benefits
- Be part of a group that is safety focused and values inclusion
- 12-month fixed term or secondment position that can be based in Brisbane or Perth (Australia), Montreal (Quebec), Delhi (India), or Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
- This recruitment process will require a technical assessment or GitHub portfolio in addition to an interview
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a HR Data Engineer to join a global team of technology experts and engineers in this exciting new field where Data Science and Business Intelligence meets Human Resources and Psychology of the workplace.
This is a great opportunity for a Data Engineer with an interest in the cross section of data and people. The insights from our team have direct impact on strategic people-related decisions from recruitment processes and retention strategies to employee wellbeing and engagement.
Reporting to the Data Management Programme Lead, you will support the global business to design and continually improve services, solving business problems and providing insight to making improvements through:
- Designing, building, deploying and scaling data pipelines to serve machine learning and predictive models
- Data modelling and architecting data sets from different enterprise systems
- Engineering complex systems to manage big data compute tasks
- Challenging and collaborating to derive new and novel techniques to improve the service of data to models
- Developing platforms and processes that support the reproducibility of results
- ETL reporting from traditional and legacy systems.
- Ensuring best in class processes and techniques to develop and deploy data analytics solutions to the business
- Ensuring the quality assurance and quality control of all data analytics products released to the business
- Capturing and recording the intellectual property generated.
- Sharing what has been developed in GitHub to help foster a new generation of data driven decision makers and enable them to improve upon what has already been done
- Engaging with clients and key stakeholders to build their understanding of data analytics
- Providing training and knowledge transferring to support the deployment and continuity of the analytics products developed
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Five years’ experience with at least one relational database (SQL Server, Postgres or Oracle) – including administration, data modelling, optimizing queries, developing stored procedures for performance and operational maintenance
- Understanding of containerized technologies like Docker and deployment to the cloud – AWS or Azure experience or certification desired
- Experience with data visualizing with Power BI, Tableau or with Python libraries
- Software development experience with Python or R
- Understanding of massive parallel architectures – Spark or Hadoop
- Experience with Linux operating system and developing repeatable builds of all associated dependencies
- Data pipeline automation and ETL development with tools like Informatica, Azure Data Factory, Google Dataflow, or Pentaho
What we offer
- Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have 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 subsidized 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 goals.
- Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Flexible working arrangements.
About Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.
We have been mining for over 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.
Where you’ll 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
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.
