Data Architect (12m FTC)
Lead Architecture for the Enterprise Data Program: Actively support and lead the architectural direction for the Enterprise Data Program, with a primary focus on the EGL exit from the legacy Woolworths data platform.
Architecture Oversight and Governance (Migration Focus): Oversee, approve, and co-design critical architecture artifacts required to support the migration and separation from the legacy platform. Review, assess, and govern solution designs to ensure they adhere to architecture principles and best practices throughout the entire migration lifecycle, ensuring smooth and successful transitions.
Strategic Collaboration and Alignment: Be a key contributor to the Architecture peer group, collaborating with other Data Architects and Enterprise Architects (EA) to ensure the Data Program’s architecture aligns with Endeavour Group’s strategy and roadmap.
Standards Enforcement (SI Partner Focus): Partner closely with System Integration (SI) partners, internal teams, and platform groups to establish and enforce data standards and contribute to the development of guidelines focused on applications and products within D&AI’s scope for migration. Ensure all migration initiatives align with the overarching Enterprise Architecture to maintain consistency.
Issue Resolution and Autonomy: Diagnose and resolve complex architectural challenges, addressing technical or operational issues that arise during the transition to the new architecture. Act autonomously to manage and resolve issues or deviations from established standards, ensuring alignment with project goals and architecture guidelines.
Risk and Compliance Management: Collaborate with Data Governance, Cybersecurity, Platform teams, and Risk and Portfolio Offices to implement engagement processes, track issues identified during architectural assessments, and ensure they are properly documented in project and risk registers related to the various migration artifacts.
Target-State Adoption: Support the successful adoption and industrialization of the target-state architecture by executing strategies for data systems, ensuring long-term architectural stability and alignment with enterprise goals and objectives post-separation.
Principle Adherence: Ensure strict alignment with defined architecture standards and principles, promoting consistency in solution decisions across the enterprise and ensuring seamless integration with the new target architectures.
Qualifications
Core Architectural & Program Experience
Migration and Transformation Expertise: Proven, direct experience working within complex enterprise transformation and data migration programs, specifically involving the separation or carve-out of data platforms, is essential.
Data Architecture Experience: Proven experience in a Senior Data Architect role, ideally gained within large, complex environments or involving Master Data Management (MDM) programs.
Retail/Domain Knowledge: Previous experience working within the Retail or Hospitality sector is highly regarded.
Architecture Governance: Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (e.g., TOGAF) are desirable.
Consulting & Influence: Exceptional communication skills coupled with a proven ability to negotiate, influence, and consult to provide authoritative advice to internal stakeholders and vendor partners.
Business Acumen: Strong business analysis and stakeholder engagement skills to translate separation requirements into architectural deliverables.
Data & Modeling Expertise
Architecture & Modeling Development: Expert experience in the development of architectures and data models for complex systems across conceptual, logical, and physical layers.
Data Engineering & Migration: Deep knowledge of data migration and engineering patterns required for transitioning data from on-premise source systems to modern cloud-hosted platforms.
Database Design & Optimisation: Solid, hands-on understanding of database design, including conceptualisation through to database optimisation techniques.
Specialised Experience: Experience in data/information management, advanced analytics, ML/AI platforms, and/or data services solutions.
Technology & Cloud Platforms
Cloud Focus: Direct and strong experience with multi-cloud environments, specifically GCP and Azure Cloud, is critical for this role.
Database Technologies: Excellent understanding of traditional relational database technologies (e.g., SQL Server, DB2, Teradata) and modern cloud analytics platforms (GCP BigQuery, Azure Synapse, AWS equivalent).
Delivery Methodology: Experience working in Agile and DevOps environments, with practical knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and principles.
Governance & Compliance
Governance & Privacy: Comprehensive understanding and adherence to data governance policies and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, local Australian equivalents), ensuring consistent compliance throughout the migration.
Personal / Professional
Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Very strong stakeholder communications, with the ability to "read the room" (especially in senior executive forums) and tailor the message, ensuring alignment across business, IT, and SI/Vendor partners.
Translation & Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to translate complicated technology solutions and architectural outcomes into plain business language and actionable advice, both in speaking and writing.
Collaboration & Team Ethic: Strong sense of team, actively supporting the wider Enterprise Data Program team and celebrating successes, while maintaining a professional and collaborative relationship with vendors.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome all applicants who meet the skills and experience requirements.
Additional Information
What's in it for you?
The benefits are good too!
- We offer flexible working in every sense
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.
- At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.
We are together creators
With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.
We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.
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