12-month contract + extensions | Hybrid | Australian Citizenship essential

We’re looking for an experienced Data Architect to provide technical leadership across a large-scale federal government data environment.

This is a senior role focused on Data Architecture, Data Modelling, Data Integration and Data Delivery , working closely with development teams, data consumers and other technical stakeholders to design and govern effective data solutions.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Providing technical leadership through design reviews, technical workshops and guidance on implementation best practice
- Reviewing and refining data delivery frameworks, including integration of recent data sources and performance improvements
- Defining peer review, data modelling and release standards
- Providing knowledge transfer and mentoring across data modelling, development and release processes
- Leading the technical implementation of new data from analysis through to delivery
- Driving continuous improvement across delivery principles, coding standards and documentation
- Prioritising work items and supporting delivery planning
- Analysing and sizing user requirements
- Providing guidance on Conceptual, Logical and Physical data models




- Reviewing data models and designs and providing technical guidance to engineers and modellers
- Maintaining technical and system documentation
- Working closely with data consumers, database developers, testers and IT support teams
- Supporting the development of consumable reporting and analytics to address business risks and emerging trends

You’ll need strong experience across enterprise data environments, with demonstrated capability in:

- Data Architecture , including enterprise-scale conformed data models and analytical data design
- AWS cloud data environments , including S3 and contemporary cloud data warehouse technologies
- Technical leadership across Cloud Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms
- ETL and data governance design and implementation
- Data modelling, including peer review and providing guidance to technical teams
- DevOps processes
- Version control and appropriate branching/release practices
- Data modelling tools such as Erwin
- Strong SQL skills, with experience in contemporary analytics languages such as Python or R highly regarded
- Reverse engineering end-user SQL and interpreting existing data models and specifications
- Metadata or model-driven frameworks

Experience working in an Agile environment is also highly regarded.

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