**Geoscientific systems & data Specialist** * Be part of a team driven by safety and performance. * Great opportunity to further develop your leadership skills. * Live our values: Care, Courage and Curiosity. * Role based in Medellín, Colombia. **About the role** **Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.** We are looking for a dedicated professional to support the Rio Tinto Explorations project by ensuring the generation and management of high-quality exploration data. This role will be instrumental in applying standardized workflows, systems, databases, and governance practices to maximize data quality and availability. Key responsibilities include facilitating the delivery and enhancement of geoscience data systems, providing training on technical platforms, promoting the correct use of RTX systems in exploration, supporting high-quality field data capture and communications, and supervising contractors. Your responsibilities will include: * Administration of data and systems. * Technical support for systems and data including field devices, workflows, tools. * Manages, maintains, curates data assets. * Development and delivery of end user training. * Delivery of intermediate complexity data migrations, data handovers, querying, analysis of data * Manage immediate stakeholders with leader support. * Operationalises and tracks global policies, practices, strategies and solutions small medium complexity data migrations and handovers, data querying, analysis, reporting. * Identifies and drives continuous improvement of global system, tools, data access, reporting. **What you’ll bring to be considered for this role:** The successful candidate will bring a “safety-first” mindset and foster a culture where physical and psychological safety are top priorities. You’ll be an inclusive employee, able to collaborate effectively across the organization, and bring the following skills and experience: * Relevant tertiary qualifications such as in geosciences, earth sciences and/or IS&T are desirable. * Experience in an earth sciences, mineral exploration and/or relevant business with an understanding of the dynamics of the business as well as implications for providing systems and support to remote and virtual teams. * Ability to travel periodically to remote field sites. * Extensive experience in managing relational databases including Drilling and Surface Sampling systems. Ability to script in languages such as SQL, Python, R etc. Experience with acQuire or other drilling data management solutions would be highly regarded. * Sound understanding of exploration process and end to end pipeline * Sound analytical skills to understand business requirements, identify as well as evaluate options and deliver systems, information and data solutions to address business needs. * Proficiency and experience in GIS (Geographic Information System) and spatial data management systems. * An understanding of cloud data platforms and data science concepts would be beneficial. * Desirable Technical skills include Microsoft365 applications, automation and workflow management. * The proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a range of senior leaders, professional and technical staff to achieve customer focused outcomes through the sharing of expertise, skills and technical capability. **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 situations and meet opportunities. **Every Voice Matters** At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.