Project Officer (Data Readiness)

NSW Department of Customer Service; Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 117,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible work locations

Job summary

NSW Department of Customer Service, on behalf of NSW Fair Trading, is seeking a Project Officer - Data Readiness in Parramatta. This temporary full-time role supports licences data migration as part of Licence NSW transition.

You will analyse legacy data, map to the new model, and lead cleansing efforts to ensure accuracy ahead of go-live. The role focuses on data readiness, quality, and stakeholder communication in a government setting.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing, profiling or mapping data between systems.
• Methodical approach to solving problems, reconciling data and root-cause analysis.
• Project coordination: planning, tracking, risks and deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in testing or UAT, including test cases and defects.
• Understanding data quality impacts customers and frontline staff.
• Ability to guide others and learn new tools.
• Experience in data analysis, migration and quality in projects.
• Experience with data mapping, reconciliation and validation.
• Advanced Excel skills for large datasets.
• Experience with licensing, regulatory or case management systems.
• Experience in government or regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyse legacy licensing data to understand structure and quality.
• Map source data to the new platform data model and confirm transformation rules.
• Profile data quality, identify gaps, duplicates and inconsistencies and advise cleansing.
• Plan, prioritise and track data cleansing activities and guide team members.
• Support data migrations, reconcile counts between systems.
• Test and validate migrated data for completeness and accuracy; log defects.
• Test platform functions using migrated records (applications, renewals).
• Support go-live and post go-live activities during migration.
• Maintain data readiness plans, risk/issue logs, and status reports.
• Work with stakeholders to explain data decisions clearly.

Skills

Data analysis

Data migration

Data mapping

Data quality

Excel

Licensing systems

Regulatory environments

Government experience

Tools

Licensing systems

Job description

Project Officer - Data Readiness

Employment Type: Temporary full time, until 31 December 2027

Clerk Grade: 7/8

Location: Parramatta, with flexibility across NSW Fair Trading office locations. Hybrid working is available, subject to divisional and DCS flexible work policies.

Agency: NSW Fair Trading

Salary: $116,981 - $129,492 plus employer's contribution to superannuation

Help Us Move to Licence NSW at NSW Fair Trading

NSW Fair Trading is the consumer protection regulator in NSW. We ensure a fair and safe marketplace for goods, services and homes in NSW. We are moving our licensing schemes from a legacy system to a new digital licensing platform, and we are looking for an analytical, detail-focused Project Officer - Data Readiness to make sure our critical licensing data is ready for the move.

This is a hands‑on opportunity to take licensing data from analysis and mapping, through cleansing and migration, to confirming it has arrived complete and accurate. Your work will decide whether licence holders, and the staff who serve them, can rely on the new platform from the day it launches.

About the Role

You will

• Analyse data in the legacy licensing system to understand its structure, quality and business meaning.
• Map source data to the new platform's data model, and work with the technology delivery partner to confirm transformation rules.
• Profile data quality, identify gaps, duplicates and inconsistencies, and recommend how they should be cleansed.
• Plan, prioritise and track data cleansing activities, and guide and support team members who carry out cleansing work.
• Support trial and final data migrations, including reconciling record counts and key values between systems.
• Test and validate migrated data to confirm it is complete and accurate, and log, triage and follow up defects.
• Test that platform functions, such as new applications, renewals, and amendments to existing licences work correctly using the migrated records.
• Support the go‑live and post go‑live activities and issues that may arise following a complex systems migration exercise.
• Maintain data readiness plans and risk and issue logs, and prepare status reports for project governance.
• Work with business stakeholders to resolve data questions, and explain the impact of data decisions in plain English.

About You

You are an analytical and methodical professional who is comfortable working deep in the detail of data while keeping the delivery timeline in view. You can explain data problems clearly to people who don't work with data every day.

It is also important to note that this is a business‑side role, and not a technical development role.

To be successful in this role

• Experience analysing, profiling or mapping data between systems, ideally as part of a system migration or replacement.
• A methodical approach to solving problems, reconciling data and finding the root cause of issues.
• Project coordination skills, including planning work, tracking progress, managing risks and issues, and meeting deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical data matters to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience in testing or user acceptance testing, including writing test cases and managing defects.
• An understanding of how data quality affects customers and frontline staff, and a commitment to getting it right for them.
• The ability to guide and support the work of others, and a willingness to keep learning new tools and methods.
• Demonstrated experience in data analysis, data migration, data quality or a related role within a project environment.
• Experience with data mapping, reconciliation and validation.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel or similar tools for analysing large datasets.
• Experience with licensing, regulatory or case management systems.
• Experience working in government or regulatory environments.

About the Team

NSW Fair Trading is transitioning to Licence NSW, a whole‑of‑government digital licensing platform that will make it easier for people and businesses to apply for, renew and manage licences in NSW.

This team is embedded within NSW Fair Trading and works closely with Digital NSW to support the transition. The team plays a key role in ensuring the new system supports customer‑centred services, improves operational efficiency, strengthens compliance outcomes and delivers meaningful service uplift.

Salary Grade 7/8, with the base salary for this role starting at $116,981 base plus superannuation

Closing Date: Sunday 8th November 2026 (11:59pm)

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