Data Governance Specialist: Databricks & Data Quality

ALDI Stores; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 118,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Hybrid work options

Parental leave including superannution

Free physiotherapy access

Employer of Choice recognition 2018-

Wellbeing program discounts

Job summary

ALDI Stores is seeking a Data Governance Specialist within the National Data Analytics (NDA) team based in Minchinbury. This full-time role focuses on establishing data controls, standards and processes to drive trusted data across the business.

You will work with data owners, quality metrics and metadata management to embed governance into data products, enabling informed decision-making and compliant data handling.

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK disciplines, particularly Data Governance, Data Quality and Metadata Management.
• Demonstrated experience applying data governance, data quality and data management practices to business or technology problems.
• Strong SQL and analytical capability with experience investigating data on Databricks or comparable modern data platforms.
• Understanding of data ingestion, transformations, lineage, metadata and Unity Catalog or comparable catalog capabilities.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills with the ability to independently convert ambiguous data issues into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assess business initiatives and data products to identify data ownership, quality, metadata, lineage, privacy and other governance requirements.
• Investigate material data quality issues using Databricks and SQL, determine root causes and work with accountable teams to establish remediation.
• Define data quality rules, thresholds and monitoring requirements and determine where appropriate controls should operate across the data lifecycle.
• Assess new data acquisition and ingestion into Databricks for fitness for purpose and establish required governance, metadata and data quality requirements.
• Improve the usability and control of data through business definitions, metadata, lineage, ownership and Unity Catalog capabilities.
• Translate DAMA-DMBOK principles and NDO standards into practical requirements for Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Product Owners and business teams.
• Provide data governance input to DPIAs, business projects, international data management initiatives and emerging AI use cases.

Skills

DAMA-DMBOK

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata Management

SQL

Databricks

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

ALDI Stores is seeking a Data Governance Specialist within the National Data Analytics (NDA) team based in Minchinbury. This full-time role focuses on establishing data controls, standards and processes to drive trusted data across the business.

You will work with data owners, quality metrics and metadata management to embed governance into data products, enabling informed decision-making and compliant data handling.