Lead Data Analyst: Discovery, Quality & Dashboards

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd; Hobart; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd in Hobart, Australia, is seeking an EL1 Data Analyst to provide specialist data analysis, discovery and delivery support for complex ICT programs and digital services. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to translate business needs into data requirements, mappings and analytical outputs across the data lifecycle.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, architects and developers to implement ingestion, transformation and validation, producing dashboards

Responsibilities

• Lead data discovery and profiling across complex internal and external datasets to understand their structure, content, quality, lineage, relationships, constraints, sensitivity and fitness for purpose.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to identify required data, clarify its business meaning, define the intended use and translate business outcomes into detailed data requirements and agreed data contracts.
• Develop and maintain source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, field definitions, data contracts, transformation rules, join logic, filtering rules, matching logic and other implementation-ready data specifications.
• Analyse data using SQL and relevant analytics tools to identify duplicates, outliers, nulls, invalid values, inconsistent formats, referential issues and other data quality concerns.
• Define practical options for cleansing, standardising, transforming, matching, de-duplicating and reconciling data, including exception handling, rejected records, historical data, initial loads, incremental loads and refresh processes.
• Collaborate with data engineers and developers to translate approved mappings, data contracts and business rules into implementable ingestion, integration, migration and transformation logic, while maintaining clear end-to-end traceability.
• Support the design and delivery of data pipelines, bulk ingestion processes, system integrations, migrations and data refreshes across cloud and on-premises environments by clarifying requirements, resolving data questions and reviewing technical outcomes.
• Develop or prepare reusable datasets, SQL queries, analytical code, scripts, notebooks and supporting artefacts that enable profiling, transformation, reconciliation, testing and controlled implementation.
• Validate source and target data against approved mappings and data contracts, reconcile counts and key measures, investigate failed or incomplete loads, and support resolution of defects, exceptions and production data issues.
• Work with testers and business representatives to develop test scenarios, expected results and traceability from approved data requirements and mapping rules.
• Produce clear analysis, dashboards, reports, visualisations and written advice for both technical and non-technical audiences where required by the program or project.
• Identify and communicate data risks, assumptions, dependencies, limitations and gaps early, and provide evidence-based options and recommendations to delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
• Apply relevant data governance, privacy, security, records management and information handling requirements throughout analytical and delivery activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of data standards, documentation, reusable methods, quality controls and ways of working across data and digital delivery teams.

Job description

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd in Hobart, Australia, is seeking an EL1 Data Analyst to provide specialist data analysis, discovery and delivery support for complex ICT programs and digital services. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to translate business needs into data requirements, mappings and analytical outputs across the data lifecycle.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, architects and developers to implement ingestion, transformation and validation, producing dashboards