Head of Data & Analytics - AI-Ready Data Platform Leader

DAI CORP; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Close to public transport

Job summary

DAI CORP in Melbourne is seeking a Head of Data & Analytics to lead data engineering, analytics and BI. You will own the enterprise data strategy, architecture, and roadmap across Fabric, Azure and AWS, delivering trusted data products and scalable analytics.

You will mentor distributed teams, establish governance, DataOps, and drive AI/ML readiness while enabling informed decision-making across the business.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience across data engineering, analytics and BI.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data platforms and enterprise architecture.
• Experience delivering trusted data products, semantic models and analytics.
• Strong understanding of governance, quality, lineage and ownership.
• Experience improving DataOps and platform governance.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Commercial judgement across platforms, vendors and cloud consumption.
• Confidence engaging executive, operational and technical stakeholders.
• A record of developing leaders and enterprise data culture.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Power BI and Microsoft Purview would be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering, analytics and business intelligence.
• Own data and analytics strategy, architecture and roadmap.
• Set direction across Microsoft Fabric, Azure and AWS.
• Establish trusted data products, semantic models and governed measures.
• Strengthen governance, quality, lineage, cataloguing and ownership.
• Embed DataOps, version control, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Improve pipeline and reporting reliability, availability and performance.
• Govern access, privacy and security by design.
• Apply FinOps discipline to data workloads.
• Translate operational and commercial questions into actionable insight.
• Build capability, succession and data culture.
• Support trusted and scalable AI and machine-learning solutions.

Skills

Data leadership

BI & analytics

Cloud platforms

Governance

DataOps

Stakeholder engagement

AI/ML awareness

Enterprise data architecture

Team leadership

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

AWS

Power BI

Microsoft Purview

Job description

DAI CORP in Melbourne is seeking a Head of Data & Analytics to lead data engineering, analytics and BI. You will own the enterprise data strategy, architecture, and roadmap across Fabric, Azure and AWS, delivering trusted data products and scalable analytics.

You will mentor distributed teams, establish governance, DataOps, and drive AI/ML readiness while enabling informed decision-making across the business.