Wollongong City Council

Information Architect

At Wollongong City Council we have a steadfast commitment to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong. We are in an exciting period of transformation and focused on delivering exceptional services, infrastructure and facilities for our community.

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About the Role

Become a part of our team at Wollongong City Council as an Information Architect, where you will lead the information management strategy by defining and implementing transformative data initiatives through collaborative forums, standards, and best practices.

In this role, you will establish the data model and align it with the enterprise architectural plan. This alignment will ensure that the organisation's current and future information assets are documented, understood, and utilised to inform decisions and actions related to system design, authoritative data sets, and information security.

Leverage your knowledge of the business impact when information assets are lost, compromised, or mismanaged and work closely with senior leaders to identify and collaborate on opportunities for shared information governance initiatives.

This is a Permanent Full-Time position, salary from $110,392.99 up to $131,988.87 per annum plus superannuation (Salary package will be assessed based on skills, experience and qualifications).

What You will be doing:

As an Information Architect, you will be responsible for developing and implementing data architecture requirements for data consolidation, data warehouses, data integration, and data migration projects. You will lead and advocate for data governance in alignment with Information Management Frameworks. Additionally, you will provide expert data architecture advice and solutions to achieve business outcomes within a complex organisational environment. This role will also see you:

• Design and oversee the architecture for data consolidation, ensuring seamless integration and migration of data across various platforms
• Champion data governance practices, ensuring compliance with established Information Management Frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data architecture solutions that support strategic business objectives
• Analyse and optimise existing data structures to enhance data quality, accessibility, and security
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve data architecture and governance processes

About you:

You have a deep passion for emerging technologies, architectures, and techniques, coupled with the ability to assess and analyse complex data challenges in an innovative environment. Your proven leadership and interpersonal skills enable you to understand and influence stakeholders' information management requirements effectively. Additionally, your advanced problem-solving and analytical abilities will empower you to develop strategies that enhance information management practices across the organisation.

Along with your relevant degree qualifications, you bring demonstrated experience in a combination of information architecture and information governance.

Benefits of working at Council:

• We provide flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and flex- you just need to ask!
• We are value-led, support and encourage personal and professional growth, recognise and reward performance and embrace change.
• We provide generous leave provisions including 5 weeks annual leave per year of service
• Long Service Leave after 5 years
• We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all, (everyone, every day and everywhere) and make available wellbeing programs to support mental, physical and social wellbeing of our staff to be at their best.
• Access to Fitness Passport

Interested?

For more information, click on Apply to be redirected to Wollongong City Council's E-recruitment site.

Contact Matt Goganovski, Information Manager, on (02) 42277725 for questions related to the job

For assistance in submitting your application, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team on (02) 4227 7065.

Applications close 11:59pm Monday 7 April 2025.

We encourage applications from everyone regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability or gender identity. People with disability are encouraged to reach out so they can be supported in recruitment processes, to enable them to demonstrate their skills and capabilities to meet the requirements of the job.

Wollongong Council adheres to the principles of a child safe organisation and is committed to the care and protection of all children and young people in the community.

Applicants are required to undergo a rigorous employment screening process which will include Reference, Identity and Medical History Checks, and may also include a Criminal History and Working with Children Check. Employment is subject to clearance of all these checks.