Bluefin Resources is proud to partner with a prestigious government enterprise to recruit a Data Architect for a long-term contract with a strong likelihood of extension. This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-year long-term project, responsible for overseeing the Data Strategy and Governance, This role can be based in Sydney, Canberra, or Melbourne.

Job details

Data Architects design, create, deploy and manage the way data will be structured, stored, used, integrated and managed in IT systems.

Key duties

The department enables access to quality skills, training, and employment to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces – supporting individuals, businesses and our nation to prosper.

The department is seeking an experienced Data Architect to meet emerging needs of the department and business areas.

The Data Architect is responsible for overseeing the Data Strategy, governance, and management of data resources. This includes conceptual/canonical/logical modelling, analysis of existing system integrations and data flows and data modelling to support development of new business systems. This role ensures that the overarching project data strategy and implementation are aligned with scrum team outputs and business objectives, fostering collaboration between data resources, developers and senior stakeholders.

The successful candidate will design, create, deploy and manage the way data will be structured, stored, used, integrated and managed in IT systems.

Responsibilities

As a Data Architect, you will be required to:

• Make recommendations on Data Strategy, including seeking to mature data practises and evolve the use of data.
• Provide expert input to the development of physical data models regarding to best practices, security, database performance, future proofing its design.
• Review and quality assure the data models (conceptual, logical and physical) produced by the data analysts, so they are fit for purpose to support scrum builds.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Technology Leads to the strategy and implementation of integration points (data exchanges) between systems.
• Administer metadata repositories for the development of all data models and Data Dictionaries.
• Performing additional duties or assume responsibility of functions as directed by the supervisor from time to time.
• Participating in Performance discussions as required by the supervisor.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrated experience in developing complex physical data models.
• Demonstrated experience in porting data from different data models, documenting the necessary mappings and transformations.
• Demonstrated ability to write complex SQL to support data analysis and specification of data migration requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to write technical specification documents, specifically regarding to ETL for data migrations.
• Experience developing and implementing data strategies and frameworks.
• Advanced skills in data tools including SQL, Power BI and Sparx Enterprise Architect (highly desirable).

Desirable criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in Data Science, Information Management, Computer Science or a related field.

What's Available:

This is an initial 12 month contract with a strong possibility of extension. The role offers flexible working options and is based in either the Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne offices.

You'll be working alongside a team of dedicated professionals, contributing to a meaningful and high-impact project where your expertise will make a real difference.

To apply, please submit your updated resume online. For a more in-depth discussion, feel free to reach out to Lee Bartlett at 0410 744 438.