Data Architect - Utilities

Talent; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a major technology program within the utilities sector. You’ll shape target-state data architecture and provide expertise across data modelling, governance, integration and migration within a complex enterprise environment.

You’ll collaborate with business, architecture, technical and vendor teams to assess models, define data domains and establish governance, master data and migration architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Data Architect in large enterprise transformations.
• Strong data modelling capabilities.
• Experience in master data, metadata, lineage, data quality and governance.
• Proven data migration and integration architecture experience.
• Ability to translate business processes into data requirements and architecture.
• Experience across complex enterprise technology environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing data models, flows, mappings and data quality.
• Define business data domains and conceptual/logical models.
• Establish data ownership, mastership, lineage and governance requirements.
• Define target and interim data architecture.
• Develop canonical definitions and mastership arrangements.
• Define data migration architecture across extraction, cleansing, transformation and reconciliation.
• Align APIs, event payloads, reporting and downstream data requirements.
• Work across business, architecture, technical and vendor teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data governance

Data migration

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Redshift

Databricks

Salesforce

Itron

Oracle Fusion

webMethods

Job description

Our client is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a major technology program within the utilities sector. You’ll shape target-state data architecture and provide expertise across data modelling, governance, integration and migration within a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing data models, flows, mappings and data quality
• Define business data domains, key objects and conceptual/logical models
• Establish data ownership, mastership, lineage and governance requirements
• Define target and interim data architecture
• Develop canonical definitions and target mastership arrangements
• Define data migration architecture across extraction, cleansing, transformation and reconciliation
• Align APIs, event payloads, reporting and downstream data requirements
• Work across business, architecture, technical and vendor teams

Key Requirements

• Strong experience as a Data Architect within large enterprise transformation programs
• Strong conceptual and logical data modelling capability
• Experience across master data, metadata, lineage, data quality and governance
• Strong data migration and integration architecture experience
• Ability to translate business processes into data requirements and architecture
• Experience working across complex enterprise technology environments
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills

Highly Regarded

• Utilities, energy or regulated industry experience
• Australian energy market and metering data knowledge
• SAP IS-U or similar enterprise platform experience
• Exposure to AWS, Redshift, Databricks, Salesforce, Itron, Oracle Fusion or webMethods
• Experience supporting complex phased migrations