Data Engineer

Data Engineer

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Full-time schedule for a two-year fixed-term position
• Located at the Rio Tinto office in Vancouver, BC with hybrid work flexibility.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Americas Exploration Data Science team for a full-time, two-year position based in Vancouver, BC.

This role is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented and analytical individual to collaborate with the Exploration Technical Knowledge group to leverage advanced analytics and geodata science, enhancing our mineral exploration strategies across the Americas.

Data is one of our most important assets. From mine to market, behind each of our operations and projects are technological innovations and data science that are driving new industry standards in mining and metals. With a clear focus on values, performance and strong leadership, you get to grow with an organisation that values your work and rewards you accordingly.

Reporting to the Data Science Manager and working a desirable Monday to Friday schedule, you will be:

• Promote Rio Tinto’s Health, Safety, and Environmental standards, fostering a culture of care, courage, and curiosity.
• Implementing and maintaining ETL/ELT processes using Python, with a working knowledge of R and Spark/PySpark.
• Developing and managing AWS cloud environments, focusing on services like Sagemaker, Lambda, ECS, ECR, S3, and Athena/Glue.
• Utilizing Azure cloud services including Azure ML Studio, Functions, ADLS, and Synapse for data processing and storage.
• Applying Python programming for data engineering tasks, utilizing libraries such as Numpy, Pandas, and boto3, along with geospatial libraries like geopandas, gdal, xarray.
• Managing containerization and orchestration tools, specifically Docker and ECS.
• Overseeing code versioning using GitHub, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Integrating machine learning concepts and MLOps standards/frameworks into exploration workflows.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, with at least six years of experience in data engineering.
• Proficient in Python, with experience in Jupyter notebooks, notebook-orchestration and geospatial data manipulation.
• Expertise in AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including data services and CLI tools.
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT processes, and experience with Spark/PySpark is an asset.
• Knowledge of containerization with Docker and version control systems (GitHub, Azure DevOps).
• Understanding of machine learning and MLOps principles.
• Distributed Computing leveraging AWS Batch, AWS Parallel Cluster and Dask.

What we offer

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

The base salary range for this role is $111,200 – $166,800 CAD in addition to allowances, bonus, equity, health or retirement benefits, and any other discretionary benefits offered at Rio Tinto. Our base salary ranges are based on role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by the skills, experience, and impact you bring to the role. Our talent acquisition partners can share more during the hiring process.

At Rio Tinto, we offer a competitive reward package that reflects the value that each person brings to our business. As part of our pay philosophy, we believe equity represents fairness, and is rooted in our values and aligns with what we stand for.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & 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
• Domestic relocation program

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 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’s Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

The Rio Tinto Exploration office is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where you will enjoy a vibrant coastal city known for its stunning natural beauty, diverse culture, and thriving urban lifestyle.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.

Applications close on Friday the 22ndof March 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)