Specialist Applications

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

Specialist - Business Applications

  • Great opportunity to join a global organisation and be part of its Information Technology transformation
  • Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
  • This new role will expose you to exciting technology and challenge the way you work
  • Permanent position based in Brisbane

About the role


We are looking for a
Specialist - Business Applications to engage with the business to understand business requirements and translate these into functional requirements for delivery.

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
Superintendent - Business Applications, and working in challenging and exciting environment within our global
Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) Operations Team, you will:

  • Facilitate business requirement workshops to gather and document business requirements, objectives to business problems and then work with technical teams to define solution design by evaluating options to deliver business objectives.
  • Maintain a high level of engagement with multiple customers, IS&T teams to ensure that project and Support and initiatives are tracked and managed to completion.
  • Performs a quality assurance role for information management deployments; enhancements.
  • Provide business advice in relation to change requests, improvements, customisations and maintaining system integrity.
  • Provide project assurance through quality review of technical and selected project management deliverables including system architecture documentation, data migration strategies, system administration and operating guidelines.
  • Transition Business Applications from project to production through collaborative engagement of external and internal service providers. This involves negotiating and optimising support models and maintenance agreements, vendor management and providing guidance with the Service Transition to Support process and deliverables.
  • Identify new business problems and work with relevant IS&T teams to find and implement solutions.

What you'll bring

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Demonstrated ability to overcome competing priorities and time management challenges
  • Good negotiation and influencing skills, and confidence to operate at all levels of the business.
  • Ability to operate across culture and extract value from virtual teams dispersed globally including outsourced teams
  • Customer focus and strong understanding of business context
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to work in a highly outsourced environment, with multiple stakeholders, in multiple regions with varying timezones

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 familyfriendly 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

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.


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

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