Senior Data Architect — Platform Discovery & Documentation (Flexible)

Cm3; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Social events and milestones

Fundraising initiatives and community/

Sustainability initiatives

Fitness challenges

Job summary

Cm3 is seeking a hands‑on Senior Data Architect to lead data discovery, documentation and governance across a complex multi‑tenant SaaS platform. You will translate discovery into artefacts including data models, dictionaries and lineage diagrams, collaborating with Product, Engineering and IT to ensure robust data governance and operational resilience.

The role focuses on platform discovery, documentation, and knowledge capture, with potential evolution into broader data and database

Qualifications

• Senior-level data architecture experience with complex enterprise platforms.
• Proven discovery and documentation of multi‑tenant data estates.
• Expertise in MySQL 8 / AWS Aurora, metadata analysis and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead data discovery, documentation and governance across CM3 platform.
• Produce data dictionaries, lineage diagrams, runbooks and models.
• Create a sustainable knowledge base for eng, product and ops teams.
• Deliver RBAC baselines, data quality profiling and reconciliation framework.
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering and IT on outcomes.

Skills

Senior Data Architect

Database Architect

Senior DBA

Database Engineer

Data Platform Architect

Tools

MySQL 8 / AWS Aurora

Power BI

Kafka

Debezium

ksqlDB

OpenSearch

Amazon S3

Job description

Cm3 is seeking a hands‑on Senior Data Architect to lead data discovery, documentation and governance across a complex multi‑tenant SaaS platform. You will translate discovery into artefacts including data models, dictionaries and lineage diagrams, collaborating with Product, Engineering and IT to ensure robust data governance and operational resilience.

The role focuses on platform discovery, documentation, and knowledge capture, with potential evolution into broader data and database