Data Strategy Lead – Workday & Enterprise Data

Aware Super; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing reimbursement

Work from home technology stipend

Salary continuance insurance

Job summary

Aware Super is seeking an experienced Data Lead to define and deliver the end-to-end data strategy for a major Workday implementation. You will lead the technical data stream across architecture, data modelling, migration, integration and governance, ensuring data accuracy, security, scalability and alignment with the technology strategy.

You will work with business leaders, architects, technology teams and partners to design secure data flows, establish governance, and support Workday HCM,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex data architecture, migration or transformation initiatives.
• Strong data modelling, integration, ETL and data-governance capability.
• Experience leading a technical data stream within a large enterprise implementation.
• Workday implementation experience would be highly regarded.
• Exposure to Workday HCM, Payroll, Finance, Prism or related reporting environments would be advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise systems, integration patterns and technical architecture.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to translate business requirements into clear data, application and operational solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and documentation skills.
• Experience within superannuation, wealth management or financial services would be beneficial.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in software engineering, technology or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define the data architecture vision for Workday and its connections with other enterprise systems.
• Design logical and physical data models for Workday HCM, Payroll, Finance, reporting and analytics.
• Plan and execute legacy data migration, including mapping, transformation, reconciliation and validation.
• Lead ETL development to migrate data from legacy platforms into Workday.
• Establish data standards, governance frameworks, validation rules and stewardship processes.
• Partner with integration teams to design secure, efficient and reliable data flows.
• Ensure the data architecture supports Workday Prism and external BI solutions.
• Provide hands-on support with complex data mapping, quality, validation and troubleshooting.
• Maintain documentation covering data models, architectural patterns and governance standards.
• Collaborate with product owners, platform leads, architects, business stakeholders, information security teams and external implementation partners.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

ETL

Data governance

Workday

Stakeholder management

Education

Relevant tertiary qualifications in software engineering/technology or related

Tools

SQL

ETL tools

Workday integration

Job description

Aware Super is seeking an experienced Data Lead to define and deliver the end-to-end data strategy for a major Workday implementation. You will lead the technical data stream across architecture, data modelling, migration, integration and governance, ensuring data accuracy, security, scalability and alignment with the technology strategy.

You will work with business leaders, architects, technology teams and partners to design secure data flows, establish governance, and support Workday HCM,