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About the Role

Hospitality and Racing is establishing a modern data function to support regulatory excellence, evidence-based decision-making and responsible innovation. This role will lead the implementation of the future-state data environment and build the necessary technical capability. It offers an opportunity to shape the data architecture, governance framework, and engineering capability for a major NSW regulator, working with leaders and specialists to create trusted, scalable, and secure data products.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement the strategic data architecture roadmap for Hospitality and Racing.
Establish governance guardrails that enable innovation while ensuring data quality, security, privacy, and compliance.
Build and lead a high-performing technical team of architects, data engineers, and specialist practitioners.
Define architecture standards, patterns, and principles that support regulatory and reform priorities, and ensure sustainable organisation growth and reduce technical debt.
Drive best practice across data management, metadata, lineage, master data, and information governance.
Partner with executives and business leaders to translate complex business problems into practical technical solutions.
Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve regulatory effectiveness by harnessing data and analytics.
Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.

Requirements

Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data architecture in a regulatory context.
Deep expertise across cloud data platforms, data engineering, data warehousing, and integration.
Demonstrated success building and developing capability in technical teams.
Strong experience establishing pragmatic governance guardrails that balance control with business enablement.
Strong understanding of data security, privacy, risk management, and regulatory environments.
The ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a way that creates confidence and understanding across both technical and non-technical audiences.

Location

Sydney, NSW

Work Type

Hybrid working arrangements may be available within business operational needs

Experience Level

Principal

Salary/Compensations

$154,231 - $178,369 per annum plus superannuation

About the Company

At the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport we bring vibrancy to NSW by growing our creative industries and workforces, driving strong visitor and night-time economies, ensuring a responsible hospitality sector, and putting arts, culture and sport at the heart of our communities.
Together we create social and economic opportunities for the state, support job creation, prioritise First Nations artists, stories and culture, ensure arts, culture and sport are at the heart of every community, drive visitation through events, campaigns and visitor experience development, activate our night-time and creative economies, and deliver a vibrant and responsible hospitality, liquor, racing and gaming environment.
We believe diversity across our department allows us to be a true reflection of NSW citizens. We are a respectful workplace committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Equal Opportunity

We are a respectful workplace committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you do require an adjustment during the recruitment process, please notify us on your application form.