Senior Data Architect & Reporting Lead

Showtime Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting in Sydney seeks a senior data architect & reporting lead to guide the design and delivery of a modern data and reporting ecosystem.

You will define the target-state architecture, governance model, and an implementation roadmap aligned to AWS, translating strategic objectives into a scalable data platform through close collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise data transformation programs from assessment to target-state design.
• Hands-on experience designing AWS-based data and analytics platforms.
• Strong communication and leadership to engage senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, and reporting frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data and reporting architecture across a large-scale transformation program.
• Define a target-state data and reporting ecosystem aligned to AWS cloud principles.
• Design lakehouse and analytics architectures using AWS-native services.
• Create architecture models across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, reporting, and consumption layers.
• Develop reporting frameworks including KPI definitions, semantic layers, dashboard standards, and report certification processes.
• Define governance models covering ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, privacy, and retention.
• Assess current-state platforms and data flows to identify rationalisation opportunities.
• Drive reporting consolidation, dashboard standardisation, and self-service analytics capability.
• Support implementation planning, roadmap creation, and sequencing.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

AWS cloud

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Strategic planning

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Redshift

AWS Glue

AWS Athena

Apache Airflow

SageMaker

Job description

Company Description

Showtime Consulting is a leading provider of Shielded Cloud and Digital Solutions across Australia and New Zealand. We specialise in delivering secure, enterprise-scale technology solutions across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, software engineering, data, and digital transformation programs.

We partner with government and enterprise organisations to build high-performing technology teams that deliver secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions within complex and highly regulated environments.

The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect & Reporting Lead to drive the design and delivery preparation of a modern Data & Reporting ecosystem.

This role will define the future-state architecture, reporting framework, governance model, and implementation roadmap aligned to an AWS target-state architecture. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives, reporting needs, compliance requirements, and current-state challenges into a scalable, governed, and delivery-ready data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data and reporting architecture across a large-scale transformation program.
• Define a target-state Data & Reporting ecosystem aligned to AWS cloud architecture principles.
• Design scalable lakehouse and analytics architectures using AWS-native services.
• Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, reporting, and consumption layers.
• Develop reporting frameworks including KPI definitions, semantic layers, dashboard standards, and report certification processes.
• Define data governance models covering ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, classification, privacy, and retention.
• Assess current-state platforms, reporting processes, and data flows to identify rationalisation opportunities.
• Drive reporting consolidation, dashboard standardisation, and self-service analytics capability.
• Support implementation planning, roadmap creation, and delivery sequencing.
• Provide architectural leadership across data, analytics, governance, and reporting initiatives.
• Engage senior business and technology stakeholders to align data capabilities with business outcomes.
• Produce architecture artefacts, standards, governance models, and implementation recommendations.

What You'll Need

• Experience across data architecture, data engineering, analytics, reporting, BI, or data transformation roles.
• Proven experience leading enterprise data transformation programs from assessment through target-state design and roadmap development.
• Hands-on experience designing AWS-based data and analytics platforms.
• Strong experience with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Glue Data Quality, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon MWAA (Apache Airflow), and Amazon SageMaker.
• Experience designing lakehouse and modern data platform architectures.
• Strong understanding of data warehouse, ETL/ELT, batch processing, and near real-time data processing patterns.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg or similar modern data lake technologies is highly regarded.
• Strong knowledge of conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, and semantic data modelling.
• Experience designing governed reporting ecosystems and enterprise analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of KPI standardisation, executive reporting, and dashboard governance.
• Experience rationalising fragmented reporting environments and enabling trusted enterprise reporting is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of metadata management, data catalogues, lineage, business glossaries, and report traceability.
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks covering quality, stewardship, privacy, and compliance.
• Knowledge of security, encryption, role-based access control, data masking, and regulatory compliance controls.
• Experience supporting financial reconciliation, auditability, compliance reporting, risk monitoring, or operational controls is advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to translate business objectives into architectural outcomes.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and presentation skills.

Why Join Us?

• Lead a major enterprise data and reporting transformation initiative.
• Shape the future-state architecture for data, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
• Work with modern AWS data platform technologies and lakehouse architectures.
• Drive reporting governance, KPI standardisation, and trusted analytics outcomes.
• Collaborate with senior business, technology, and executive stakeholders.
• Join a consulting culture focused on technical excellence, innovation, and delivery success.