RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.

The company’s marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global’s portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers’ management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.

About The Team

Our Technology teams work collaboratively from different locations across the world on multiple eCommerce sites, mobile applications, and automated online auctions. We encourage and celebrate technical innovation and work with some of the industry’s leading technologies and tools.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.

Job Description

Ritchie Bros. is undergoing a large system transformation to modernize our legacy applications, shift key capabilities to the cloud and evolve existing cloud applications to leverage new capabilities like AI as they become available. You will be responsible for broad Technical and Architectural leadership across the engineering teams in the RBG Business Systems domains that cover Finance, HR, Sales and Marketing. You will architect end-to-end solutions leveraging RB Global Oracle Cloud and Salesforce ecosystems, including designing data flows between legacy on-prem, and cloud applications.

You will provide Architecture and design guidance to the implementation teams to ensure software solutions align with business requirements and technology standards. You will be proactive in assessing new technologies and will be a key decision maker in recommending and selecting new products within the organization. You will work closely with our Product Management leadership to provide technical vision for your products in enterprise road-mapping and planning exercises. You will collaborate with designers, product managers, developers, and other leaders throughout the business to deliver compelling and efficient software solutions. You will bring a proactive attitude about risk, working to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues with the support of others in Product Engineering. You will also be responsible for coaching and training Senior Staff Engineers on new technologies and frameworks. You will need to be deeply familiar with Finance, HR, Sales and Marketing systems and implementation best practices to build scalable and reliable systems.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Accountable for working with and across Product Teams to develop a sustainable, performant and well-designed suite of products that meet RB Global technical standards
Conduct regular assessments of the architecture to identify areas for improvement and optimization, staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure that our systems remain cutting-edge
Develop and publish new technical standards across the organization and drive adoption of those standards. Keep documentation updated and promote the communication and sharing of knowledge to all engineering teams.
Build skillsets within the team through partnership with Engineering Enablement, External Vendors and Product & Systems teams to assure team members have the skills, tools, and domain knowledge necessary to achieve their team mission

Decision Making

Select the simplest, most efficient and cost-effective solutions, for any given business requirement
Design/Manage the overall architectural approach, both at the product and service-to-service integration levels
Take ownership for the quality of the selected products and assist with selecting the right teams to effectively implement and run the solution in a secure, sustainable way
Balance technology tradeoff decisions to ensure the benefits of solutions outweigh the costs
Prioritize/Manage implementation effort required to fulfill product feature requests in a timely manner

Problem Solving

Define/Design architecture/solutions, working with Product Managers, Business teams, external vendors and Engineering team members to create scalable/robust applications.
Analyze and assess existing applications and procedures as they pertain to application solutions. When integrating multiple applications address situations where applications have overlapping/similar functional capabilities in a way that simplifies the process for users.
Identify and assess cross-functional / interdepartmental impacts and dependencies (eg. Sales impacts on Operations and vice-versa) and design solutions that address and/or eliminate these where possible
Tackle new (never seen) technical problems, independently research and find innovative solutions. Keep abreast of new features coming from Salesforce and our other SaaS vendors and look for opportunities to leverage these to benefit RB Global business.
Constantly identify opportunities (or problems) in solution delivery process, make appropriate improvements, with a deep focus on optimizing the lean development process

Qualifications

University degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or software engineering or equivalent
Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or Principal Engineer in a similar role
Minimum of 10 years of experience implementing cloud systems in large complex organizations with at least some experience in both Salesforce and Oracle Cloud
Experience in a variety of integration technologies with a keen understanding of the tradeoffs between different products in the market ( Enterprise KAFKA experience is an asset)
At least 2 years hand-on functional expertise configuring modules in Oracle Cloud or Salesforce. Proficiency in configuring and extending cloud applications and an understanding of the tradeoffs between leveraging out-of-box capabilities and custom development
Several years’ experience with system integration technologies, data conversion/ETL, security, and Cloud Infrastructure
Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively engaging with executive-level stakeholders