Senior Data Quality & Governance Architect

Mane Consulting; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Mane Consulting invites applications for a Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead in Melbourne. The role focuses on guiding data quality initiatives, uplifting data governance, and enabling confident decision-making across a national program.

You’ll enhance data assets for analytics, automation, and AI by defining rules and ensuring secure, compliant data practices. You will lead cross-functional teams, mentor staff, and partner with data stewards, engineers, and analysts to deliver high-value

Qualifications

• Experience implementing data governance programs.
• Ability to define data quality rules and metrics.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead data quality activities, including defining and socialising data quality rules.
• Analyse data assets and translate requirements into governance solutions.
• Establish and maintain data rules, metadata, classifications and coding protocols.
• Integrate datasets from multiple operational systems using standard tools and coding languages.
• Conduct audits, detect inconsistencies and apply error-handling procedures.
• Produce high-quality data outputs, reports and artefacts.
• Build relationships with data stewards, SMEs, engineers and project teams.
• Support project planning, delivery cadence and continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor staff, fostering high-performance culture.
• Promote ethical, secure, and privacy-aligned data practices.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder engagement

Privacy & security

Excel advanced

Analytical judgement

Tools

SQL

Python

ETL

Job description

Mane Consulting invites applications for a Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead in Melbourne. The role focuses on guiding data quality initiatives, uplifting data governance, and enabling confident decision-making across a national program.

You’ll enhance data assets for analytics, automation, and AI by defining rules and ensuring secure, compliant data practices. You will lead cross-functional teams, mentor staff, and partner with data stewards, engineers, and analysts to deliver high-value