Associate Data Architect

Lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and strategy, designing scalable cloud data platforms and modern analytics solutions.

23rd July, 2026

Company Description

Showtime Consulting is a leading provider of Shielded Cloud and Digital Solutions across Australia and New Zealand. We specialise in delivering secure, enterprise-scale technology solutions across cloud, data, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and digital transformation programs.

We partner with major organisations to build high-performing technology teams and deliver innovative cloud-native solutions that improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to join a high-performing data and analytics team.

This is a strategic and hands on role focused on defining enterprise data architecture, data strategy, governance frameworks, and modern data platform capabilities. You will play a key role in shaping the organisation's data vision, establishing architectural standards, and designing scalable data solutions that enable reporting, analytics, machine learning, and data-driven decision making.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience across data architecture, data engineering, data governance, and modern cloud data platforms, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise data transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and design enterprise data architecture, data modelling standards, governance frameworks, and data capability roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain data strategies aligned to business objectives and technology direction.
• Design and govern modern data platforms, tools, standards, and operating models.
• Define and communicate future-state strategies for business intelligence, analytics, and data capabilities.
• Produce and maintain data solution architectures and data product designs through architecture governance and approval processes.
• Ensure data solutions are reusable, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Create and evolve data technology roadmaps that support changing business requirements.
• Define and improve data architecture standards, governance processes, and integration patterns.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and technology stakeholders on data strategy and direction.
• Collaborate with project managers and delivery teams to support planning, estimation, dependency management, and solution delivery.
• Lead architecture workshops, work breakdown sessions, and solution design reviews.
• Drive alignment between data initiatives, enterprise architecture, and strategic business objectives.
• Support data product, data mesh, analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data-sharing initiatives across the organisation.

What You'll Need

• Experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, or Solution Architecture.
• Strong experience designing enterprise data platforms, architectures, and data models.
• Expertise with Redshift, Teradata, Glue, Spark, and DBT.
• Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Airflow, and Dagster.
• Knowledge of Data Mesh, Data Products, and Data Governance frameworks.
• Experience with data catalogues, metadata management, and governance tools.
• Understanding of machine learning, analytics, reporting, and data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts, including Terraform.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, consulting, and communication skills.
• Experience working within Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Telecommunications industry experience highly regarded.

Desirable Skills

• Telecommunications industry experience.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms and enterprise-scale data transformation programs.
• Exposure to AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience developing enterprise data governance and operating models.
• Knowledge of data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Experience working with architecture governance boards and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services and modern data ecosystem tooling.
• Relevant certifications in Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, AWS, or Enterprise Architecture.

Why Join Us?

• Work on large-scale enterprise data and analytics transformation initiatives.
• Define the future-state data strategy and architecture for critical business capabilities.
• Influence enterprise data governance, standards, and technology direction.
• Collaborate with senior business leaders, architects, engineers, and data specialists.
• Gain exposure to modern cloud, big data, analytics, and machine learning platforms.