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We have laid solid data platform foundations, and the next phase is maturing our data, analytics, and AI capability so the business can confidently use, trust, and build on it.\nOur Azure and Databricks environment is already established, so this role is about making it better rather than starting again. You will take ownership of our target data architecture as we bring architecture ownership in-house. You will assess what we have today, decide what needs to evolve, simplify where complexity has crept in, and build a clear roadmap to the target state.\nAs our design authority for data, you’ll set the standards our engineers, analysts and delivery partners work to, and make and document key design decisions. You’ll make sure the platform can scale while remaining secure, resilient, cost-effective, and fit for a highly regulated environment.\nImportantly, this is not architecture at a distance. You will work closely with data engineering, analytics, governance, cyber security, and business teams, ensuring the technology ultimately delivers what matters: trusted data, actionable insights, and better business decision-making.\nYou like a challenge, and you are energised by a platform with real potential and work still to do. You bring the confidence to challenge and the openness to listen, and you know that strong relationships with engineers are what turn good architecture into positive change. You will join a small, diverse team that is keen to learn, open to new ways of working and motivated to drive positive change for our members.\nKey responsibilities:\nOwn and evolve our data architecture\nOwn the target data architecture and roadmap for our data platform, primarily Azure and Databricks.\nAssess the current environment and technical debt and establish a pragmatic transition roadmap towards the target state.\nAct as the design authority for data, setting standards and making key architectural decisions.\nEnsure the architecture balances scalability, performance, resilience, security, and cost.\nSimplify the data and analytics technology landscape over time, in line with the target state.\nShape our data models and integration approach\nDefine modelling standards across the medallion architecture, including reusable, trusted data assets, and semantic layers.\nOwn conceptual and logical models across key domains, including member, product, claims, and finance.\nDefine ingestion, transformation and integration patterns across the platform and downstream systems.\nChampion strong modelling, schema design, and engineering practices that keep the environment maintainable and portable.\nBring architecture ownership in-house\nProvide independent architectural assurance over solutions delivered by delivery partners.\nReview and challenge designs, frameworks, and technical debt, holding all solutions to our standards.\nLead the transition of architecture ownership and knowledge in-house, keeping our platform open and portable.\nBuild capability across the team by coaching engineers and analysts on data architecture and modelling practices.\nBuild governance and security in by design\nEmbed data classification, access, privacy, retention, and security requirements into architectural decisions.\nDesign for lineage, data quality and access controls that support APRA (including CPS 230 and CPS 234) and Privacy Act obligations.\nHelp establish an architecture that supports the responsible use of AI on trusted and governed data.\nInfluence across the organisation\nRepresent data architecture at the Architecture Review Board and provide data architecture input to major programmes.\nExplain complex architectural choices and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\nWork closely with business leaders, delivery teams, risk partners, and technology teams to ensure architectural decisions reflect real business priorities.\nSkills and experience required:\n10+ years’ experience across data and technology, including at least five years operating as a Data Architect or Solution Architect.\nStrong hands-on experience with Databricks, or deep experience with a comparable modern data platform such as Snowflake or BigQuery, combined with the ability to quickly apply that expertise to the Databricks environment.\nStrong cloud and data architecture expertise, ideally within Azure.\nExperience taking ownership of an established data platform and driving its ongoing maturity, optimisation, and simplification.\nStrong data modelling capability, including conceptual and logical modelling, dimensional or Data Vault approaches, semantic layers, and advanced SQL.\nExperience working alongside consultancies or systems integrators, with the confidence to review, challenge and change their technical designs\nStrong stakeholder skills and the ability to hold an architectural position while remaining collaborative and pragmatic.\nExperience working across multidisciplinary data, analytics, engineering, and governance teams.\nStrong focus on using data architecture to enable better analytics, insight, and business decision-making.\nTertiary qualification in computer science, information technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nExperience within financial services, insurance, or health, particularly an APRA-regulated environment, would be highly regarded\nExperience with Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, data products/data mesh, Terraform, CI/CD for data platforms or Databricks Asset Bundles would also be advantageous.\nAbout Avant\nAvant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation and is proudly member-owned. We support doctors throughout their careers, particularly when they face some of the most challenging moments in professional life. 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