Senior Advisor – Architecture

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Based in Salt Lake City

Were Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs now and in the future. Our values care courage and curiosity guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Advisor Architecture (Enterprise Architect) to provide architectural leadership across Coppers digital portfolio and operating model.

This role ensures that new and existing digital solutions are secure integrated supportable and aligned with Rio Tinto enterprise standards while enabling measurable operational outcomes This is a great opportunity for a curious customerfocused enterprise architect to shape target-state architecture and guide investment decisions for complex OT/IT/data initiatives while bridging the gap between Operations Maintenance Technical Services HSEC and technology delivery teams. You work closely with product teams to guide design decisions and balance speed value risk and total cost of ownership to avoid longterm fragmentation and technical debt.

Key accountabilities

• Define and maintain Copperlevel architecture standards across applications data integration and platforms aligned with Rio Tinto enterprise standards.
• Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise guardrails (cyber/security patterns integration standards data governance supportability) and Copper strategy.
• Guide teams toward reuse simplification and consistent design patterns to accelerate delivery and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Identify opportunities to modernize rationalize or retire systems based on lifecycle risk and business value.
• Embed security data governance and lifecycle thinking into solution designs so solutions are audit-ready and fit for operational use (uptime shutdown windows and site constraints).
• Support buildvsbuyvsreuse decisions with clear architectural guidance and transparent trade-offs (value risk complexity time-to-deliver).
• Validate targetstate architectures during transition activities and contribute to portfolio roadmaps (keep / invest / migrate / retire).
• Ensure integration by design across operational and enterprise systems (e.g. ERP historian/SCADA IoT/telemetry planning and maintenance systems) promoting resilient patterns and clear ownership boundaries.
• Produce and maintain practical architecture artefacts (e.g. reference architectures solution blueprints integration patterns capability-to-application views) to enable consistent decision-making across products and sites.

About you

To be considered for this opportunity candidates must be able to demonstrate:

• Strong commitment to the safety of yourself and your colleagues
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field with 510 years experience in a comparable senior role.

• Experience in solution or enterprise architecture within complex environments including awareness of data governance principles within largescale enterprise organizations

• Demonstrated track record designing systems across OT IT and data platforms in asset-intensive or operational environments.
• Ability to challenge design choices and simplify technical solutions.
• Experience partnering with mining operational stakeholders and designing for site realities (e.g. uptime requirements shutdown windows constrained connectivity and change adoption).

• Experience working with modern data platforms such as cloud lakehouse/analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks or equivalent) and understanding how they integrate with operational systems.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders including Operations Maintenance Technical Services HSEC Cyber and enterprise platform teams.

Preferred skills

• Modern data and analytics architectures (e.g. lakehouse streaming).
• Integration patterns including APIs and eventdriven designs.
• Cloud and hybrid platform experience.
• Experience integrating operational systems (e.g. historian/PI SCADA) with enterprise and cloud platforms using secure resilient patterns.
• Exposure to analytics machine learning or decisionsupport products (as part of a broader digital/OT-IT portfolio).

What we offer

• Be recognized for your contributions innovative thinking and dedication and leave each day knowing youve helped the world progress.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical prescription drug dental vision life insurance coverage and various voluntary benefits
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off) paid holidays and paid bereavement leave
• A generous parental leave policy which ensures youre able to spend quality time with your new family
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Personify Health with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through lifes challenges

Where youll be working

Youll join the Copper Product Group within Copper Technical & HSEC working at the center of how technology data and engineering shape the future of Rio Tintos copper business. Youll sit in Innovation & Technology Systems (I&TS) a growing team that brings together R&D digital strategy and datadriven delivery. The team works across worldclass operations at Kennecott and Oyu Tolgoi and major growth projects including Winu and Resolution.

I&TS builds and scales digital products data platforms advanced analytics simulation and decisionsupport tools that directly influence how copper is explored designed operated and expanded. Youll work closely with asset teams and local technology groups taking ideas from concept through to live operations while helping shape how Copper owns and evolves its digital capability.

This is handson applied technology work close to the assets close to the decisions and focused on real impact at scale.

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 cant do it on our own so were focused on creating partnerships to solve problems create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color sex age religion national origin disability or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

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