Data Enablement Lead: Trusted Data, Governance & Insights

Optus Enterprise; New South Wales; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly credit

Product discounts

Flexible work

Office campus

Parental Leave

Counselling services

Employee networks

Onsite parking

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Data Enablement Lead to drive trusted data solutions, governance, and analytics across Billing & Credit and the wider organisation. You will lead data integration, modelling, and pipeline development to enable informed decisions and strategic outcomes.

You will champion a data-driven culture, strengthen data accessibility, and mentor analysts to deliver best-practice data solutions with strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong data engineering and analytics expertise, supported by relevant tertiary qualifications and industry certifications.
• Extensive experience delivering cloud-based data solutions, including data warehousing, ETL, big data frameworks, pipeline orchestration, SQL, and programming languages such as Python and Java.
• Proven leadership in data governance, risk management, reporting, and analytics, with the ability to drive data quality, best practices, and business outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a track record of leading teams, influencing decisions, and delivering results in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise data solutions, including data integration, data modelling, and pipeline development, ensuring accurate, trusted data supports informed business decision-making and strategic outcomes.
• Drive data governance, quality, and risk management practices by establishing robust controls, managing data access, maintaining compliance documentation, leading data quality initiatives, and partnering with stakeholders to align with broader organisational data strategies.
• Develop and enhance scalable reporting and analytics capabilities through the maintenance of single sources of truth, optimisation of reporting assets, automation of data processes, and the creation of analytical models that improve business performance and operational efficiency.
• Champion a data-driven culture across the organisation by providing technical leadership, supporting self-service analytics and data democratisation, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and coaching analysts to deliver innovative, best-practice data solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualifications

Industry certifications

Tools

Data warehousing

ETL

Big data frameworks

Pipeline orchestration

SQL

Python

Java

Job description

Optus is seeking a Data Enablement Lead to drive trusted data solutions, governance, and analytics across Billing & Credit and the wider organisation. You will lead data integration, modelling, and pipeline development to enable informed decisions and strategic outcomes.

You will champion a data-driven culture, strengthen data accessibility, and mentor analysts to deliver best-practice data solutions with strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration.