Senior Data Architect: Platform Discovery & Documentation

Cm3; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Sustainability initiatives

Job summary

Cm3 is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Architect to lead a structured data discovery, documentation and assurance programme across our customer platform. You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and IT to capture data estate details, data flows and governance, delivering artefacts like data models, dictionaries and lineage diagrams.

The role focuses on multi-tenant SaaS environments, including relational and non-relational databases, APIs and event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level experience as a Data Architect or similar role.
• Proven ability to lead data discovery and documentation for complex enterprise platforms.
• Hands-on expertise with MySQL 8/AWS Aurora and metadata analysis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a verified inventory of data estate, interfaces and dependencies.
• Produce version-controlled schema catalogs and data models.
• Map end-to-end data lineage across products and platforms.
• Create data dictionaries, lineage diagrams and runbooks.
• Develop a restartable extraction process and data quality profiling.
• Document RBAC baseline and access controls across systems.
• Capture knowledge into a reusable, indexed repository.
• Transfer knowledge to team members for ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Data architecture

Database discovery

Data modelling

SQL scripting

RBAC and security

Data governance

Multi-tenant SaaS

Power BI data feeds

Event-driven architectures

Tools

MySQL 8/AWS Aurora

MongoDB

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Kafka

Debezium

ksqlDB

Amazon S3

SQL profiling tooling

Job description

Cm3 is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Architect to lead a structured data discovery, documentation and assurance programme across our customer platform. You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and IT to capture data estate details, data flows and governance, delivering artefacts like data models, dictionaries and lineage diagrams.

The role focuses on multi-tenant SaaS environments, including relational and non-relational databases, APIs and event-driven architectures.