Data Engineer (Foundry Platform)

About the role

Rio Tinto is looking for a Data Engineer to design, build, implement and maintain pipelines, models and applications that solve business problems and increase value. The role reports to the Delivery or Technical Lead and is based in the Perth offices (Central Park and the Operations Centre near Perth Airport) with flexible hybrid working.

Key responsibilities

• Champion the Foundry platform and tools, and map business data into the Foundry Ontology
• Identify relevant datasets by engaging with user workflows and liaise with IT to maintain new datasets and pipelines
• Ingest data from various sources onto Foundry, write transformations and derive new datasets
• Transform structured data from many sources into productionised workflows
• Develop applications using Foundry's Workshop, TypeScript Functions and Actions
• Perform timeseries and ad-hoc data analysis, and build bespoke applications for user groups
• Work iteratively with end users to implement solutions and reduce technical debt
• Support Foundry applications on a rotational basis and communicate blockers to leads

Required profile

• SQL and Python proficiency
• Experience with piping and data engineering is a must
• Experience with large columnar datasets (PySpark proficiency is a plus)
• UX/UI design and modelling experience are a plus

Required skills

• SQL and Python
• Piping and data engineering
• JavaScript/TypeScript is not required but viewed favourably

What we offer

• Competitive base salary with annual incentive bonus
• Full relocation to Western Australia and comprehensive medical benefits
• Share ownership plan, salary sacrifice and packaging options
• Career development, education assistance and family-friendly leave