Lead Data Analyst - Data Discovery

Talent Insights Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Insights Group is partnering with a large Insurance business to appoint an experienced Lead Data Analyst for a 12-24 month contract. The role focuses on leading data discovery across internal and external datasets and turning business needs into implementation-ready data specifications for engineers.

You will drive data profiling, mappings, data dictionaries, and data contracts, working with data engineers on ingestion, migration, and validation across cloud and on-premises environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive data discovery, profiling and analysis experience in ICT, digital transformation or data delivery.
• Strong hands-on SQL and contemporary analysis tools (e.g. Python, notebooks).
• Proven experience producing source-to-target mappings, data contracts and business rules.
• End-to-end data lifecycle experience: migration, initial and incremental loads, validation and reconciliation.
• Clear communicator who can work with business stakeholders, engineers, architects and testers.
• Government or regulated-sector experience highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead data discovery and profiling across datasets to understand structure, quality, lineage and fitness for purpose.
• Develop source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, data contracts, transformation rules and matching logic.
• Use SQL to investigate data quality issues and define cleansing, de-duplication and reconciliation approaches.
• Partner with data engineers on ingestion, integration and migration across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Validate loads, reconcile source and target data, and support defect and production issue resolution.
• Communicate data risks and recommendations to delivery teams and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data discovery

SQL

Python

Data profiling

Data delivery

Tools

Notebooks

Job description

Lead Data Analyst - 12-24 Month Contract

Australian citizens only.

Talent Insights is partnering with a large Insurance business to find an experienced Lead Data Analyst for complex ICT and digital delivery programs. You’ll lead data discovery across internal and external datasets and turn business needs into implementation-ready data specifications that engineers can build from.

About the role

• Lead data discovery and profiling: structure, quality, lineage, sensitivity and fitness for purpose
• Develop source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, data contracts, transformation rules and matching logic
• Use SQL to investigate data quality issues and define cleansing, de-duplication and reconciliation approaches
• Partner with data engineers on ingestion, integration and migration across cloud and on-premises environments
• Validate loads, reconcile source and target data, and support defect and production issue resolution
• Communicate data risks and recommendations to delivery teams and senior stakeholders

About you

• Extensive data discovery, profiling and analysis experience in ICT, digital transformation or data delivery
• Strong hands-on SQL and contemporary analysis tools (e.g. Python, notebooks)
• Proven experience producing source-to-target mappings, data contracts and business rules
• End-to-end data lifecycle experience: migration, initial and incremental loads, validation and reconciliation
• Clear communicator who can work with business stakeholders, engineers, architects and testers
• Government or regulated-sector experience highly regarded

Eligibility

Australian citizenship is required for this role.