Duration: Initial 6-month contracts with potential extensions of up to 12 months

Location: Sydney, hybrid working

Start: ASAP

Positions: Two separate contract appointments

About the program

Hope IT Consulting is recruiting two senior data professionals for an enterprise data-governance and cloud data-platform uplift at a leading Sydney university:

1. Senior Data Modeller

2. Data Architect

These are two separate positions. Applications will be assessed against the position most closely aligned with each candidate’s experience. Position 1 — Senior Data Modeller

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Modeller with strong enterprise data-governance experience.

Key responsibilities

- Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical enterprise data models using ERWIN
- Create dimensional models, including star schemas, and enterprise 3NF models
- Define and document Critical Data Elements, business definitions, relationships and data classifications
- Work with data architects, engineers, governance teams and business stakeholders to develop consistent enterprise data models
- Support metadata management, data cataloguing, lineage and governance activities
- Review existing models and recommend improvements to quality, consistency and reusability
- Prepare modelling standards, documentation and artefacts for governance review

Essential experience

- At least five years of relevant data-modelling experience
- Strong hands-on ERWIN experience
- Demonstrated conceptual, logical and physical data modelling




- Strong dimensional and 3NF modelling experience
- Experience with Critical Data Elements, metadata, lineage and enterprise data governance.

Position 2 — Data Architect

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to establish and govern enterprise conceptual data architecture.

Key responsibilities

- Author and govern enterprise Conceptual Data Objects, including business definitions, relationships, classifications and worked examples
- Develop conceptual data architecture aligned with business capabilities and processes
- Define non-functional data requirements, including availability, lifecycle, retention, sensitivity, security and ownership
- Map enterprise data objects to business processes, systems, data owners and stewards
- Establish data-architecture principles, standards and reusable patterns
- Prepare and present submissions to architecture and data-governance forums
- Work closely with business SMEs, data stewards, governance teams, architects and engineering teams
- Support enterprise data-platform and governance uplift activities

Essential experience

- At least five years of relevant data-architecture experience
- Demonstrated enterprise conceptual data-architecture experience
- Strong experience defining enterprise data objects, business definitions and relationships
- Solid enterprise data-governance background
- Experience working with architecture review and data-governance forums
- Understanding of metadata, lineage, ownership, data quality, retention and information sensitivity

📌 Senior Data Modeller & Data Architect – 2 Contracts (Sydney)
🏢 Hope IT Consulting
📍 Sydney