Senior Data Modeller & Data Architect – 2 Contracts

Duration: Initial 6-month contracts with potential extensions of up to 12 months

Location: Sydney, hybrid working

Start: ASAP

Positions: Two separate contract appointments

About the program

Hope IT Consulting is recruiting two senior data professionals for an enterprise data-governance and cloud data-platform uplift at a leading Sydney university:

1. Senior Data Modeller

2. Data Architect

These are two separate positions. Applications will be assessed against the position most closely aligned with each candidate’s experience.

Position 1 — Senior Data Modeller

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Modeller with strong enterprise data-governance experience.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical enterprise data models using ERWIN

• Create dimensional models, including star schemas, and enterprise 3NF models

• Define and document Critical Data Elements, business definitions, relationships and data classifications

• Work with data architects, engineers, governance teams and business stakeholders to develop consistent enterprise data models

• Support metadata management, data cataloguing, lineage and governance activities

• Review existing models and recommend improvements to quality, consistency and reusability

• Prepare modelling standards, documentation and artefacts for governance review

Essential experience

• At least five years of relevant data-modelling experience

• Strong hands-on ERWIN experience

• Demonstrated conceptual, logical and physical data modelling

• Strong dimensional and 3NF modelling experience

• Experience with Critical Data Elements, metadata, lineage and enterprise data governance.

Position 2 — Data Architect

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to establish and govern enterprise conceptual data architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Author and govern enterprise Conceptual Data Objects, including business definitions, relationships, classifications and worked examples

• Develop conceptual data architecture aligned with business capabilities and processes

• Define non-functional data requirements, including availability, lifecycle, retention, sensitivity, security and ownership

• Map enterprise data objects to business processes, systems, data owners and stewards

• Establish data-architecture principles, standards and reusable patterns

• Prepare and present submissions to architecture and data-governance forums

• Work closely with business SMEs, data stewards, governance teams, architects and engineering teams

• Support enterprise data-platform and governance uplift activities

Essential experience

• At least five years of relevant data-architecture experience

• Demonstrated enterprise conceptual data-architecture experience

• Strong experience defining enterprise data objects, business definitions and relationships

• Strong enterprise data-governance background

• Experience working with architecture review and data-governance forums

• Understanding of metadata, lineage, ownership, data quality, retention and information sensitivity