Solution Architect - Data

This position is for a Solution Architect - Data responsible for establishing enterprise data architecture, standards, and models. Key duties include defining the data architecture roadmap, promoting data modeling standards, and providing architectural oversight for data platforms and integration solutions. A postgraduate degree in IT or equivalent experience, with expertise in integration solutions, leadership, and strategic thinking, is required.

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, standards, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture principles, and data governance frameworks.
• Establish and promote data architecture principles, standards, patterns, and best practices to enable consistent, trusted, and reusable data capabilities across the organization.
• Lead the development and governance of enterprise data modelling frameworks and standards across conceptual, logical, and physical layers, while providing leadership and mentoring to data modellers to ensure consistent adoption and organisational capability growth.
• Provide solution design leadership and architectural oversight for data platforms, and integration solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into effective data solutions and provide architectural guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Drive data platform capability uplift, shaping the technology roadmap, evaluating emerging technologies, managing architectural risk and technical debt, and ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.
• Everyone here has a role to play.
• As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world.
• By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.
• Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:
• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave/paid primary care leave
• 17% superannuation contributions
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight
• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
• On campus childcare options
• Affordable parking (from just $6.15 a day)

• You will be an experienced IT professional with a strong background in solution architecture and enterprise integration.
• With a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership capability, you can deliver robust, scalable solutions that meet business needs while engaging effectively with stakeholders.
• Your collaborative approach and ability to stay across emerging technologies will ensure continued innovation and best practice.