Senior Data Architect & Reporting Lead — Remote‑Friendly AWS

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary packages

Professional development support

Remote-friendly roles

Job summary

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd in Australia seeks a Senior Data Architect & Reporting Lead to drive the design and delivery of a modern Data & Reporting ecosystem on an AWS target architecture. You will translate strategic objectives into scalable, governed data platforms and analytics capabilities across ingestion, storage, and reporting.

You will guide governance, KPI standardisation, and enterprise analytics, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver secure, trusted analytics outcomes.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

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.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Analytics

Reporting

BI

Data transformation

AWS

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

AWS Glue Data Quality

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Athena

Amazon MWAA

Amazon SageMaker

Apache Airflow

Job description

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd in Australia seeks a Senior Data Architect & Reporting Lead to drive the design and delivery of a modern Data & Reporting ecosystem on an AWS target architecture. You will translate strategic objectives into scalable, governed data platforms and analytics capabilities across ingestion, storage, and reporting.

You will guide governance, KPI standardisation, and enterprise analytics, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver secure, trusted analytics outcomes.