Manager, Analytics Delivery

- Ongoing / Permanent
- Location: Parramatta with flexible working arrangements
- Salary: $154,231 – $178,369 + Super + flex leaves

Overview

NSW Department of Education, a role to educate and inspire lifelong learners across early childhood to vocational education. The Manager, Analytics Delivery will lead end‑to‑end delivery of data products, analytics solutions, and strategic initiatives that deliver measurable business value.

Responsibilities

Lead multidisciplinary teams, influence senior stakeholders, remove delivery barriers, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with organisational priorities. Combine strong project and program management capabilities with stakeholder leadership to drive the successful delivery of complex, cross‑functional data initiatives.

Candidate Profile

You are a proactive and autonomous delivery leader who thrives in complex environments. You can confidently influence without direct authority, negotiate priorities across multiple stakeholders, and translate technical delivery into meaningful business outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience

- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams spanning data engineering, analytics, visualisation, testing, architecture, and business stakeholders to drive end‑to‑end data product delivery
- Track record of leading enterprise‑wide data, analytics, business intelligence, or digital transformation projects, ensuring alignment with strategic business outcomes
- Working knowledge of Azure Data Lake platform, SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric, including data ingestion, storage, and visualisation capabilities
- Solid understanding of data governance frameworks, master data management,



and compliance requirements to ensure secure, high‑quality analytics solutions
- Experience in risk management within Agile data analytics environments, with the ability to identify and mitigate delivery impediments proactively
- Solid knowledge of dimensional modelling and solution architecture principles
- Hands‑on familiarity with release planning and management processes, collaborating closely with Release Engineers to ensure smooth deployment cycles
- Strong capability to influence and engage senior stakeholders, facilitate collaboration, and negotiate priorities across competing demands
- Comprehensive knowledge of project and program management methodologies, including PMBOK/PMP, Agile, Scrum, and hybrid approaches, to govern delivery frameworks effectively
- Experience managing project governance artefacts such as RAID registers, delivery roadmaps, benefits realisation tracking, financial management, and executive reporting
- Advanced commercial acumen managing budgets, forecasting, vendor contracts, and performance to deliver value within financial constraints
- Excellent communication skills to articulate strategic impacts, delivery risks, and business value clearly to both technical teams and executives
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Azure DevOps, Jira, and Confluence




- Demonstrated ability to foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence across teams
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people

Essential Requirements

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or equivalent industry experience
- Certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile Certified Practitioner)
- A valid working with children checks
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education

Benefits

- Flexible working arrangements
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive salary sacrificing, employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth

EEO Statement

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Closing date: Tuesday 4th August 2026 at 11:59pm.

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📌 Manager, Analytics Delivery (City of Parramatta Council)
🏢 NSW Department of Education
📍 City of Parramatta Council