Data Warehouse Architect

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia our work goes beyond a job title. We design build operate and support the systems services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40000 people our Australian team of around 2000 has partnered with government defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability trust and purpose matter.

Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose their contribution to be recognised and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:

• Flex Your Way Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year) part-time arrangements job sharing and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental physical and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits Access over 120000 on-demand courses alongside technical project management leadership and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter solve complex challenges and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future Whether youre deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership well invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

Youll join a team where people work with integrity inclusion innovation agility collaboration and practice that means sharing ownership solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

The Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies to accelerate digital modernisation and ensure secure resilient and adaptive environments that meet evolving regulatory compliance and business needs. Our approach integrates advancing data AI cloud and automation delivering agility security efficiency and innovation at scale.

The Opportunity

As a Data Warehouse Architect you will play a key role in shaping the organisations enterprise data landscape enabling trusted insights and data-driven decision-making across the business. Working with business stakeholders data professionals and technology teams you will design and govern modern data platforms that are scalable secure and aligned to strategic objectives.

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise data warehouse lakehouse and analytics architectures across cloud on-premises and SaaS environments ensuring solutions support current and future business needs.
• Define and implement data models architecture standards integration patterns and governance frameworks that improve data quality consistency accessibility and usability across the organisation.
• Provide technical leadership across ETL/ELT development data integration platform modernisation and cloud transformation initiatives guiding teams through complex architectural and delivery challenges.
• Partner with engineers analysts architects and business stakeholders to deliver high-performing secure and maintainable data solutions that support reporting analytics business intelligence and operational decision-making.

About You

You are an experienced data professional who combines strategic thinking with hands-on technical expertise. You enjoy translating business requirements into practical data solutions and are passionate about building data platforms that are reliable scalable and trusted by stakeholders across the organisation.

Essential:

• Significant experience in data warehousing data architecture database design or data engineering within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience designing conceptual logical physical and dimensional data models including star schemas fact tables and dimension tables.
• Advanced SQL capability and experience working with relational database technologies and large-scale data environments.
• Experience designing and overseeing ETL/ELT pipelines using technologies such as Azure Data Factory AWS Glue Informatica dbt SSIS or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake Databricks Microsoft Fabric Amazon Redshift Google BigQuery or Azure Synapse.
• Experience with data governance metadata management lineage security privacy and data quality frameworks.
• Ability to optimise data platform performance scalability storage and workload management while maintaining operational reliability.
• Experience working collaboratively with stakeholders across business and technology teams and providing technical leadership mentoring and architectural guidance.
• Well-developed communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.

Advantageous:

• Experience with cloud-native data architectures data lakes lakehouses and modern analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of Databricks Delta Lake Spark Kafka or other modern data processing and streaming technologies.
• Experience with dbt and contemporary data transformation practices.
• Familiarity with Data Vault Kimball data mesh or other enterprise data modelling and architecture approaches.
• Experience implementing CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code within data platforms.
• Exposure to data cataloguing governance or metadata management tools.
• Relevant qualifications or certifications in cloud architecture data engineering database technologies or enterprise architecture.

This role requires the successful applicant to be eligible to obtain and maintain a NV1 Security Clearance.

What to Expect When You Apply

Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills experience and qualifications look aligned with the role our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:

• An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
• An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
• Any role-specific assessment technical discussion or customer step required for the position

Well let you know what to expect before each stage including who youll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process please let us know.

Ready to explore whats possible

If this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow wed like to hear from you. Please apply via the Apply Now button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process please contact Ben George Talent Acquisition.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.