Data Governance Architect: Purview & Snowflake Expert

Essential Energy; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 133,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Fair Trading is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to extend and operationalise the Data Governance Framework, driving adoption of Purview, Varonis and Snowflake while bridging business and technology teams.

The role focuses on translating business problems into data outcomes, improving data ownership, quality and trusted reporting to enable better decisions across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in data governance and/or data engineering advisory.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview.
• Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• Ability to discuss data problems with business users without heavy tech framing.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into measurable data outcomes.
• Knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, quality, metadata, lineage and glossaries.

Responsibilities

• Extend governance tools (Purview, Varonis, Snowflake) and promote adoption.
• Evolve governance framework documentation.
• Engage stakeholders to identify data issues and business impact.
• Translate business problems into data-driven outcomes and actions.
• Discuss governance concepts in business language to enable better decisions.

Skills

Data governance consulting

Microsoft Purview

Stakeholder engagement

Business-technology translation

Problem-to-outcome mapping

Data ownership & stewardship

Data quality & metadata

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Varonis

Snowflake

Job description

NSW Fair Trading is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to extend and operationalise the Data Governance Framework, driving adoption of Purview, Varonis and Snowflake while bridging business and technology teams.

The role focuses on translating business problems into data outcomes, improving data ownership, quality and trusted reporting to enable better decisions across the organisation.