Senior Data Architect - Cloud Data Lake & Governance

BLACKROC Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BLACKROC Recruitment is seeking an experienced Data Architect for a 12-month contract with extensions, Hybrid work, and Australian Citizenship essential. The role focuses on Data Architecture, Modelling, Integration and Delivery across a large-scale federal data environment.

You will lead design reviews, define data standards, mentor teams and drive delivery improvements with a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer and documentation. Experience in Agile settings is valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing enterprise data environments.
• Strong capability in data modelling and governance.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and analytics tooling.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, workshops and guidance on implementation best practice.
• Review and refine data delivery frameworks, integrating new data sources and improving performance.
• Define peer review, data modelling and release standards.
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentoring across data modelling, development and release processes.
• Lead the technical implementation of new data from analysis through to delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery principles, coding standards and documentation.
• Prioritise work items and support delivery planning.
• Analyse and size user requirements.
• Provide guidance on conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Review data models and designs and provide technical guidance to engineers and modellers.
• Maintain technical and system documentation.
• Work closely with data consumers, database developers, testers and IT support teams.
• Support development of consumable reporting and analytics to address business risks and trends.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Modelling

Data Integration

Data Delivery

AWS Cloud

Cloud Data Lake

Data Warehouse

ETL

Data Governance

DevOps

Version Control

Erwin

SQL

Python

R

Metadata Modeling

Agile

Education

n/a

Tools

Erwin

Job description

BLACKROC Recruitment is seeking an experienced Data Architect for a 12-month contract with extensions, Hybrid work, and Australian Citizenship essential. The role focuses on Data Architecture, Modelling, Integration and Delivery across a large-scale federal data environment.

You will lead design reviews, define data standards, mentor teams and drive delivery improvements with a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer and documentation. Experience in Agile settings is valued.