Data Architect - Data and Integration

Fusion5; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training certifications

Career development

Diversity and inclusion

Community and recognition

Job summary

Fusion5 is seeking a talented Data Architect to join our team. You'll work with customers to understand their business processes, data challenges, and future needs, translating these into practical, scalable, and well-governed data architectures.

This role goes beyond high-level architecture diagrams. You'll lead data modelling and architecture design for both operational and analytical use cases, ensuring secure, traceable, and maintainable solutions across cloud ecosystems in Melbourne, Sydney

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data architecture, senior data engineering, or technical consulting delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience in logical and physical data modelling and relational design.
• Experience designing data solutions with lifecycle, history, and governance in mind.
• Knowledge of API-driven and batch ingestion patterns and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of scalable, secure, and well-governed data architectures tailored to customer needs.
• Design logical and physical data models for enterprise and operational systems, supporting integration and reporting.
• Define data structures for API-driven ingestion, lifecycle management, auditability, and regulatory traceability.
• Apply strong relational database design and normalization practices, including history-aware modelling.

Skills

Data modelling

Data architecture

Governance

Stakeholder comms

Problem solving

Delivery focus

Tools

Azure

Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

Python

Spark

Job description

• Go beyond architecture diagrams to own the data layer, end to end
• Design data foundations built for AI on Azure, Fabric and Databricks
• Grow your career in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane

Fusion5 is seeking a talented Data Architect to join our team. You'll work with customers to understand their business processes, data challenges, and future needs, translating these into practical, scalable, and well-governed data architectures.

This role goes beyond high-level architecture diagrams. You'll help define how data should be structured, stored, and managed across operational and analytical use cases. You'll lead logical and physical data design, shape data models that support integration and reporting, and help ensure solutions are secure, traceable, and practical to deliver.

While this is first and foremost a data architecture role, we're also looking for someone with strong adjacent capability across modern data engineering and platform delivery to work in either Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane locations.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design of scalable, secure, and well-governed data architectures tailored to customer needs.
• Design logical and physical data models for enterprise and operational systems, supporting integration, operational processing, reporting, and future analytics.
• Define data structures for API-driven ingestion, lifecycle management, auditability, regulatory traceability, and long-term maintainability.
• Apply strong relational database design and normalisation practices, including reference data and history-aware modelling where required.
• Translate business challenges into practical data architecture designs and supporting documentation.
• Work closely with solution architects, integration teams, analysts, engineers, and reporting teams to align the data layer with the wider solution.
• Contribute to modern data platform delivery across cloud ecosystems, helping shape ingestion, transformation, modelling, and governance approaches.
• Ensure solutions are cost-effective, maintainable, secure, and high-performing.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support solution shaping and provide architecture input during customer discussions where needed.
• Ensure solutions meet compliance, security, and governance requirements.

What We're Looking For

You're someone who builds trust, takes time to understand a customer's business and data landscape, and enjoys turning ambiguity into structure. You think strategically, but you're pragmatic designing data architectures that are scalable, governed, and achievable within real-world delivery constraints.

• 5+ years' experience in data architecture, senior data engineering, or technical consulting within data and analytics delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience in logical and physical data modelling, relational database design, and structuring data for operational and analytical use cases.
• Experience designing data solutions that consider lifecycle, history, traceability, reference data, and governance requirements.
• Strong understanding of integration and ingestion patterns, including API-driven and batch-based data flows.
• Hands-on experience across modern cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and/or Snowflake.
• Practical knowledge of data engineering and platform delivery, including SQL, Python, Spark/PySpark, Azure Data Factory, dbt, or similar tooling.
• Experience working with technical and business stakeholders to translate requirements into workable solution designs.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Industry certifications in relevant data technologies are advantageous.
• Ongoing professional development in modern data architecture and engineering practices.

What you bring

You bring strong experience in data architecture and modern data delivery, and you understand how to take a solution from concept through to implementation. You've worked across data modelling, cloud data platforms, governance, integration, and engineering delivery, and you know how to balance sound architecture with practical project execution.

• Data modelling and architecture design
• Modern data engineering and platform capability
• Governance, quality, and traceability mindset
• Communication, influence, and stakeholder engagement
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Pragmatism, delivery focus, and sound judgement

Why Fusion5?

Investment in people is a priority at Fusion5. We offer training certifications, career development paths, and a wide range of opportunities to grow and develop professionally.

• Individual Performance and Development Plans
• Professional self-care
• Diversity and inclusion
• Social connection and recognition
• Environment and community

Ready to go beyond?

Ready to help customers build strong, scalable, and future-ready data foundations?