Enterprise Information Architect - Governance & Taxonomy

Talent; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking an experienced Information Architect in Canberra to shape how information is structured, classified, governed and shared across business systems, helping establish a sustainable information environment that supports better services and business outcomes. The role focuses on enterprise information architecture, metadata, taxonomy and governance within a major change program.

It requires two onsite days per week with a contract through to 30 June 2027 and eligibility for

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise information architectures.
• Strong expertise in information modelling, metadata, taxonomy and classification.
• Experience establishing information governance standards and improving information quality.
• Ability to assess current-state environments and design practical future-state architectures.
• Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Understanding privacy, security classification, records management and regulatory obligations.
• Experience working in Agile environments and using Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the current information landscape, repositories, structures and information flows.
• Facilitating discovery workshops with business, technical and executive stakeholders.
• Developing conceptual and logical information models, taxonomies and metadata frameworks.
• Designing information classification, content and interoperability structures.
• Establishing information governance standards, recommendations and supporting documentation.
• Aligning information architecture with enterprise, business, data and solution architecture.
• Supporting implementation, stakeholder adoption and knowledge transfer activities.

Skills

Information architecture

Metadata management

Taxonomy design

Governance & compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Agile environments

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Talent is seeking an experienced Information Architect in Canberra to shape how information is structured, classified, governed and shared across business systems, helping establish a sustainable information environment that supports better services and business outcomes. The role focuses on enterprise information architecture, metadata, taxonomy and governance within a major change program.

It requires two onsite days per week with a contract through to 30 June 2027 and eligibility for