Senior Data Architect: Regulatory Data & Governance

Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport in Sydney seeks a Principal Architect (Data) to lead the future-state data environment for Hospitality and Racing, including Liquor & Gaming NSW.

You will shape architecture, governance, and engineering capability, building trusted data products and guiding a high-performing team through regulatory data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data architecture in a regulatory context.
• Deep expertise across cloud data platforms, data engineering, data warehousing and integration.
• Proven success building and developing capability in technical teams.
• Experience establishing pragmatic governance guardrails balancing control with enablement.
• Strong understanding of data security, privacy, risk management and regulatory environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead transformation data projects as part of data strategy implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the strategic data architecture roadmap for Hospitality and Racing.
• Establish governance guardrails that enable innovation while ensuring data quality, security, privacy and compliance.
• Build and lead a high-performing technical team of architects, data engineers and specialist practitioners.
• Define architecture standards, patterns and principles that support regulatory and reform priorities, and ensure sustainable organisation growth and reduce technical debt.
• Drive best practice across data management, metadata, lineage, master data and information governance.
• Partner with executives and business leaders to translate complex business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve regulatory effectiveness by harnessing data and analytics.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Data engineering

Data governance

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Data warehousing

Data integration

Job description

Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport in Sydney seeks a Principal Architect (Data) to lead the future-state data environment for Hospitality and Racing, including Liquor & Gaming NSW.

You will shape architecture, governance, and engineering capability, building trusted data products and guiding a high-performing team through regulatory data initiatives.