Position overview

• 12-Month Max-Term Contract, Full-Time opportunity
• True hybrid working - work from home and our Mitcham office
• $160,746 Total Remuneration Package inclusive of 11.5% superannuation

About us

We're on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We're one of Australia's largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria's population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you'll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The role

The Data Governance Analyst is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of data governance practices across the organisation. This role operates within the Enterprise Data and Analytics team and plays a key part in advancing data governance capabilities to support two major strategic initiatives.

The position serves as a bridge between business and IT, ensuring that data governance requirements are clearly defined and integrated into project delivery. It involves close collaboration with data specialists, security, and compliance teams to help drive organisational data governance maturity and ensure alignment with enterprise data management standards.

Your key responsibilities

• Contribute to data migration activities, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation to ensure accurate and complete data transfer.
• Collect and document business and data requirements through stakeholder engagement, including interviews, workshops, and process analysis.
• Perform comprehensive testing and validation to maintain data integrity and accuracy throughout the migration process.
• Support the Data Governance Manager with data assessments, including profiling, classification, lineage analysis, custodianship mapping, sensitivity validation, and issue management.
• Identify gaps in existing data processes and recommend training or project-based solutions to enhance data governance capabilities.
• Support the implementation and management of data governance tools and technologies, and interpret data profiling results to identify data quality issues such as missing, default, or inconsistent values.

What we're looking for

• Demonstrated Data and/or Information management experience
• Experience at developing business and IT aligned data governance processes, requirements and roadmaps
• Experience at undertaking data impact assessments and delivering on data management requirements
• Demonstrated experience working directly with business units as a Data SME, mapping processes, identifying opportunities, and helping identify and solve data issues
• Strong working knowledge of data management and governance practices
• Strong understanding of data protection regulations and compliance requirements such as NIST, PDP, Public Records Act, SOCI
• Experience with data governance tools and metadata management systems such as Alation and purview will be advantageous
• Experience with SQL and other data querying languages is highly desirable
• Demonstrated domain knowledge of corporate systems/ERP within utilities is preferred
• Relevant Certification in Data Management
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline with a commercial orientation (e.g. Accounting, Law, Business, Commerce) - Essential

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow - both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $160,746 Total Remuneration Package inclusive of 11.5% superannuation
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• $650 home office set up allowance for eligible employees
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office
• 14 weeks paid leave parental leave
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, wellbeing, mental health, menstrual or menopause
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.
Closing date: Thursday 5th June 2025
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please call 03 9872 2542 or email [email protected]. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.