Data Architect (Governance)
Summary
An information/data architect role in Canberra supporting a Change Program: designing, structuring and governing enterprise information assets, including information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks and governance documentation, while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders in an Agile environment using Azure DevOps. Baseline security clearance is mandatory.
Salary: $140 – $165 per hour
About the role
An Information Architect is required to support the Change Program. They will be responsible for designing, structuring, and governing business information assets to align with business needs and strategic objectives. It ensures information assets are consistently structured, classified, governed, and integrated across business systems and services.
Key responsibilities
Design, document, and govern information architectures that support business capabilities, service delivery, and enterprise information management objectives
Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand information requirements
Develop information models and structures
Define metadata and taxonomy frameworks
Support information governance initiatives
Ensure information assets are aligned with enterprise and data architecture strategies
Contribute to Agile delivery practices and maintain work items in Azure DevOps
Support governance activities
Provide knowledge transfer to build internal capability
Attend quarterly PI Planning in person
About you
Proven experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise information architectures, information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks, and content structures
Demonstrated experience developing information management standards, governance frameworks, classification schemes, and practices that improve information quality, accessibility, compliance, and usability
Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, architects, and governance forums
Experience designing logical and conceptual information models, information classifications, metadata standards, taxonomies, and structures that support discoverability, reuse, and interoperability
Experience ensuring information architecture aligns with enterprise, data, solution, and business architecture practices while supporting integration across systems and services
Strong ability to produce high-quality information architecture artefacts, governance documentation, briefing papers, standards, roadmaps, and executive presentations
Understanding of information management obligations relating to privacy, records management, security classifications, information governance, and regulatory compliance
Experience working in Agile delivery environments, using tools such as Azure DevOps, and ensuring alignment with enterprise governance, architecture standards, and organisational policies
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, build trust, contribute positively to team culture, support others, and create alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
Must hold Baseline security clearance