Senior Data Architect: Platform Discovery & Data Governance

Wesfarmers Industrial & Safety; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Social events

Staff milestones

Sustainability initiatives

Job summary

Cm3 is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Architect to lead data discovery, documentation and governance across the CM3 platform. You will work with product, engineering and IT to map data estates, schemas and dependencies, and to produce sustainable artefacts for platform development and resilience.

The role spans relational and non-relational databases, APIs, events, reporting and document stores within a multi-tenant SaaS environment. It is a 12-month fixed-term with potential for permanency.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience leading discovery and documentation of complex data platforms.
• Strong ability to translate data estate knowledge into artefacts like data models and dictionaries.
• Hands-on expertise with relational and non-relational databases in multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Deep knowledge of RBAC, data security and sensitive-data controls.
• Proven ability to facilitate discovery sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead data discovery, documentation and assurance across the CM3 platform.
• Create data models, dictionaries, lineage diagrams and runbooks.
• Define and maintain an evidence-backed knowledge repository.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and IT to capture dependencies and data flows.
• Deliver training and knowledge transfer to nominated team members.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Database discovery

Documentation

RBAC & security

SQL & scripting

Data modelling

Stakeholder facilitation

Data governance

Clear technical communication

Tools

MySQL 8 / AWS Aurora

MongoDB

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Kafka

Debezium

ksqlDB

S3

GraphQL

REST APIs

Node.js

Laravel

PHP

Zend

Job description

Cm3 is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Architect to lead data discovery, documentation and governance across the CM3 platform. You will work with product, engineering and IT to map data estates, schemas and dependencies, and to produce sustainable artefacts for platform development and resilience.

The role spans relational and non-relational databases, APIs, events, reporting and document stores within a multi-tenant SaaS environment. It is a 12-month fixed-term with potential for permanency.