Senior Consultant - Data Strategy & Governance

What you’ll be doing

We are looking for an experienced Sr Consultant who can specialise in business and technology transformation, technology strategy and data governance. You will be flexible and willing to use a broad set of consulting capabilities with a key focus in helping clients unlock the value of their data through your knowledge of data management, governance, and data quality best practices. This role will focus on driving meaningful business engagement and strategic alignment across senior leadership. As a bridge between business and technical teams, you will play a critical role in shaping our client’s data governance vision, influencing data strategy, and embedding governance principles into business processes across their organisation. With a willingness to stretch into various client engagements across business and technology transformation.

•    Lead Strategy Engagements: Collaborate with client stakeholders to define data-driven business strategies, articulate data management or technology roadmaps, conduct data maturity assessments and align technology and data capabilities with business objectives.
•    Develop and Implement Data Governance Frameworks: Design and deliver governance structures, policies, and procedures that promote data quality, compliance, and accountability.
•    Define and Embed Data Roles: Lead the establishment and operationalisation of data roles including data stewardship, ownership, and custodianship.
•    Architect Enterprise Data Solutions: Guide the design of scalable, resilient, and future-ready data architecture that supports integration, analytics, and governance requirements.
•    Ensure Compliance: Assist clients in understanding their data and privacy compliance obligations. Helping them to establish appropriate governance, controls and monitoring.
•    Data Modelling Expertise: Develop and review high-quality conceptual and logical data models to support business process design and technology enablement. An assist in the development of data glossaries, metadata catalogues and data lineage.
•    Define KPIs, dashboards:  Work with clients to establish and define KPIs through all levels of their organisation, and wireframe dashboards that ensure visibility and accountability.
•    Client Engagement and Thought Leadership: Facilitate workshops, author deliverables, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders. Contribute to practice development through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
•    Project Oversight: Manage and deliver client projects on time and within scope, ensuring high standards of delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
•    Partner with senior stakeholders: Work with a diverse set of stakeholders including data owners, and executives to define and enforce data standards, data ownership, and stewardship responsibilities.

Working Conditions:
•    [Employment Type] – Permanent Full Time / Contractual
•    [Work Arrangement] – Onsite
•    [Office Location] – Preferably Brisbane but open to Sydney
•    [Travel Opportunities] – Occasional Interstate business travel

What will make you successful in this role? 
•    Proven experience in data governance, data management, or enterprise data strategy roles.
•    Demonstrated success in driving strategic data governance initiatives across complex organisations.
•    Strong business acumen and the ability to perform strategic analysis aligned with corporate objectives.
•    Excellent stakeholder management and experience working with senior executives and cross-functional teams, with the ability to influence and advise senior executives.
•    Experience with modern data platforms and technologies (e.g. cloud data ecosystems, data catalogues, MDM, lineage tools).
•    Strong understanding of metadata management, data stewardship, data quality principles, and data lifecycle management.
•    Experience with regulatory compliance and enterprise risk and data frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, APP, Privacy Act).

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
•    Tertiary qualifications in Information Management, Business or a related field.
•    Certifications in data management or architecture (e.g., DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, CDMP, TOGAF, AWS/Azure Data Certifications).
•    Experience across diverse industry sectors such as government, finance, health, or utilities.
•    Experience with data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation) is highly desirable.
•    Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks relevant to data (e.g., APRA CPS 234, GDPR).
•    Familiarity with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure) but not essential

Why is this an exciting opportunity?

Atturra is one of the fastest growing ASX-listed advisory and IT solutions companies in Australia, giving you a strong foundation to fulfil your career ambitions. 

We currently have 1100+ professionals working across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong who are using innovation to lead the way. 

The Advisory & Consulting arm of Atturra prides itself on delivering unique, impactful, and lasting client-centric solutions across Government, Defence, National Security, Emergency Management, and the Resource sectors. We achieve this through a tailored approach that addresses the core of each challenge, providing practical advice that drives positive outcomes and enduring results.

This is your chance to make an impact. Come and join our talented and creative team of change makers to redefine the future through technology. 

What our people say: 
“We are working towards a very bright future.”
“It's a company with vision and a promising future.”

Why you’ll love working here 

Culture of possibility 
At Atturra we embrace innovation within our teams, fostering an environment of possibility and growth. We believe in creating a supportive and welcoming culture, where everyone is encouraged to achieve success through collaboration, continuous learning, and smart work practices. 

A strong set of company values 
Our culture is reflected by our employees who demonstrate camaraderie, innovation, dedication, respect and excellence in everything they do. These traits have become integral to the way we do business and are the values we strive for. 

Valuable employee benefits 
•    Employee benefits, recognition, and wellbeing platform
•    Career growth via succession planning, internal promotions, and mentorship opportunities
•    Ongoing investment in professional development through industry and technology certifications, and study assistance
•    Mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program
•    Support for family and caring responsibilities, including paid parental leave
•    Employee referral program, with monetary incentives offered  

Commitment to supporting Australia’s veterans  
Atturra is proud to be recognised as a Veteran Friendly Employer by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veteran Employment Commitment (VEC) and is committed to supporting Australia’s veteran community. We aim to enhance the employment experience for veterans by improving recruitment, support, retention, and leadership opportunities to ensure they have a meaningful and impactful career with us. 

What our people say: 
“Atturra has a great working environment and management are very supportive of their staff. We celebrate success and have fun while working hard.”

How to apply 

Careers | Atturra
https://atturra.com/au-en/careers

Recruitment Agencies/Headhunters:
We got this covered. Our Talent Acquisition team is working on our hiring demands and will reach out should we need extra support. Atturra only accepts referrals from agencies on our official supplier list via Agency Portal. Agencies are required to go through our procurement process, have an approved fee agreement, and be invited to participate in hiring for a job opening by the Atturra Talent Acquisition team. Any profiles or referrals submitted outside of this process will be deemed invalid. We request that you do not contact Atturra employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team for any hiring-related queries. To become an official supplier, send an expression of interest via talentacquisition@atturra.com.  

Atturra is committed to addressing the digital skills gap and advocating for diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of Veteran or service status, gender, LGBTQI+ identity, ethnicity, religion, physical ability, or age.

This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, key accountabilities, and skills of persons so classified.  Management reserves the right to add or change the job and relevant percentage of accountabilities as required, in its sole discretion.