Data Operating Model Architect
About Us
Terra Firma is a highly respected Australian business and technology consulting firm with a 25+ year history of successfully delivering client outcomes. We offer leading business and technology consulting services covering the entire lifecycle of a program. With an average tenure of 8 years across the business, it’s safe to say that our people love what they do and are here for the long haul, whether they are at the beginning of their career journey or a seasoned professional. Our people are masters of their craft but what sets us apart is our support and willingness to help each other to deliver high quality outcomes for our clients.
We offer you exposure to a diverse array of clients across various industries including all levels of Government, Banking and Financial services, Not for Profit, Telco’s, Technology and Utilities. If you have the right skills, take your pick! Not only are you able to work across various industries, but you will also learn and upskill from working on new projects and with new technologies.
The staff are the lifeblood of Terra Firma.
The diverse backgrounds and varying walks of life enable our company culture to grow stronger, and this is what makes it such a great place to work.
Terra Firma is committed to ensuring all applicants are considered for positions in the organisation regardless of ethnicity, gender or physical disability.
If you share our values and culture, you will find a home at Terra Firma.
The opportunity
We are working with a leading Telecommunications company, assisting them with the development of a new Data team to assist in the implementation of an AI and Data Academy and creation of a data as an asset culture and we are looking for a Senior Data Operating Model Architecture Manager to join our team.
Reporting to the GM Data, Corporate & Infrastructure Architecture, you will be responsible for the design and development of a robust, efficient, Data Operating Model architecture. The primary focus will be to simplify and optimise data usage across the organisation, collaborating with stakeholders across the business including the Chief Data Office, Networks, and IT, to ensure alignment.
You will be responsible for monitoring compliance with the targeted data operating model architecture, overseeing and ensuring proper guardrails around ingestion, processing, and consumption, including ensuring strict requirements of metadata collection, lineage tracing, and DataOps pipeline test gates.
Specific responsibilities will include:
• Defining the Target Data Operating Model (People, Process and technology features and requirements) Architecture, ensuring it aligns with the business objectives
• Defining and maintaining the data operating model roadmap
• Put together IT capex, opex and requirements for data architecture-related investments
• Data Operating Model Architecture Governance
• Leading a team providing leadership and guidance, ensuring Data Operating Model and Data Architecture best practises are followed.
This is a new role in a large and complex organisation, starting early in the New Year, so to qualify you will be an experienced Enterprise Data Architect and Manager and be able to demonstrate:
• Experience developing and implementing a Data Operating Model Architecture
• Experience defining enterprise data architecture and building data platforms, templatised cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and implementing data pipelines
• Ability to work across a large and complex organisation, working and influencing a variety of senior stakeholders and an ability to translate technical concepts into business terms
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks within data platforms and tooling
• Knowledge of CloudFormation or Terraform would be highly regarded.
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Note, applications will be reviewed upon our return in the week of 8th January
