Lead Data Analyst - Data Discovery & Migrations (12m Contract)

Bluefin Resources Pty; Sydney; On-site; AUD 179,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluefin Resources is seeking a hands-on Lead Data Analyst to join a multidisciplinary ICT delivery team within a federal government agency.

You’ll lead data discovery and analysis, investigate quality issues and translate business needs into implementation-ready mappings, rules and data contracts. Your work will span the delivery lifecycle, from understanding source data through to validating migrations, reconciling loads and supporting production.

Qualifications

• Experience in data discovery, profiling and analysis within ICT or data delivery.
• Strong hands-on SQL skills and experience with analytical tools.
• Experience producing detailed data specifications for engineering teams.
• Experience across data lifecycle: ingestion, migration, validation, reconciliation and defect resolution.
• Ability to work independently and engage stakeholders across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Profile complex internal and external datasets, assessing structure, quality, relationships and fitness for purpose.
• Develop source-to-target mappings, data definitions, transformation rules and data contracts.
• Use SQL to investigate anomalies, duplicates, missing values and reconciliation issues.
• Partner with engineers, developers, architects and testers on ingestion, migration and incremental refreshes.
• Validate source and target data, reconcile record counts and key measures, and investigate load failures.
• Communicate findings, risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Data profiling

Stakeholder engagement

Data contracts

Tools

SAS Viya

Snowflake

Python

Power BI

Talend

Azure data services

Job description

Bluefin Resources is seeking a hands-on Lead Data Analyst to join a multidisciplinary ICT delivery team within a federal government agency.

You’ll lead data discovery and analysis, investigate quality issues and translate business needs into implementation-ready mappings, rules and data contracts. Your work will span the delivery lifecycle, from understanding source data through to validating migrations, reconciling loads and supporting production.