Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead

Mane Consulting; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 110 000 - 165 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder engagement

Privacy & security

Excel advanced

Analytical judgement

Outils

SQL

Python

ETL

Description du poste

Get recognition and reward working in this data management Lead role where you’ll thrive on improving data quality, strengthening governance, and enabling confident, evidence‑based decision‑making. Join a major national program focused on uplifting data foundations, enhancing visibility of high‑value datasets, and ensuring Australia’s most important data assets are fit‑for‑purpose for analytics, automation and AI.

As a Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead you will guide data quality initiatives, influence strategic data uplift, and work with diverse stakeholders across complex operational environments. Help define data rules, improve data integrity, integrate datasets, and champion best practice data management, all while supporting a modern data platform rollout.

What you’ll do

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

What you bring

• Deep knowledge of data access protocols, data governance principles, privacy, ethics and security.
• Strong capability in data quality assurance, integrity assessment and fitness‑for‑purpose evaluation.
• Experience with data collection methodologies, editing techniques, administrative data sources and metadata.
• Ability to integrate datasets, amend existing code, and apply quality controls.
• Strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and clear communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical judgement.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, lead teams and deliver high‑value project outcomes.
• Curiosity, adaptability and a commitment to continuous improvement.