Position Profile

Data Architect

WHO IS THE CHILDREN’S CANCER INSTITUTE?

The Children’s Cancer Institute has embarked on an incredible adventure; joining with the Kids Cancer Centre to create our new
home and ways-of-working in the Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre. A journey to integrate as one team, become truly
comprehensive, and define the future of children’s cancer research, care, and education. Along the way we will deliver benefits
to our patients, their families, and our global communities, leading ultimately to a cure for children’s cancer.

OUR VISION
To save the lives of all children with cancer and improve their long-term health, through research.

WE BELIEVE THAT
• No child should die from cancer or suffer life-long side effects from their treatment.
• Medical research is fundamental to curing childhood cancer.
• It is the critical iterative relationship between translational research, research that moves laboratory findings into the clinic;
and discovery research, bench to bedside and back again, that is bringing us closer to one day curing childhood cancer.
• It’s not if. It’s when.

OUR PURPOSE
Children’s Cancer Institute exists solely to put an end to the devastating impact of childhood cancer.
Every week in Australia, three children and adolescents die of cancer. Only when that three becomes zero, and when all the
survivors can live a normal life, will our work be done.
Our purpose as the only independent medical research institute in Australia focused exclusively on childhood cancer, is to
Translate and Discover, through world class research, new treatments that will cure cancer and reduce side effects in children and
adolescents.

OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OUR STRATEGIC ENABLERS

Translate – to accelerate the integration of our translational
research into clinical care, including delivery of the flagship
Zero Childhood Cancer program.
Discover – to pursue world class discovery research, and to
feed the translational pipeline through the depth, breadth, and
impact of our science.
Empower – attracting and developing the brightest minds in a
vibrant collaborative high-performance culture that fosters
diversity, innovation and success.
Innovate – by providing our researchers and support teams
with access to advanced technologies, infrastructure and
facilities, we will create a dynamic and cutting-edge
environment for innovation.
Connect and engage – partnering and collaborating with
UNSW and Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network together with
national and international clinical and research leaders and
organisations, governments, and industry to leverage and
maximise the outputs and impact of our research.
Promote and fund – sharing our beliefs, vision, and purpose
with others to drive awareness, engagement and support for
our cause that ensures we deliver our strategic objectives in a
financially sustainable way.

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YOUR ROLE
Role: Data Architect Team: Technology Services Group
- Data & Digital Transformation

Job Family: TSG (Manager) Reports To: Data Analytics Manager

Salary Band: B5: 120-140K Manages: NA

Key Internal Business Unit Leaders, Product Managers Key External Technology Service Providers
Relationships: Relationships:

YOUR PURPOSE
The Data Architect ensures that strategic goals are optimised by evolving effective Enterprise Data Management using
enterprise data standards for data warehousing, data lake, data management and other corporate databases. The Data
Architect works across the business, and closely with other members of the Technology Services Group, building the direction
and vision for strategic data architecture that supports business outcomes.

YOUR KEY OUTCOMES

1. Connection to the Cause • Identify ways to leverage the value of technology to achieve team/unit outcomes, using
existing and new technologies.
• Support compliance with Research data and the management requirements of the
organisation

2. Systems & Processes • Take ownership of the design, management and use of ICT Infrastructure and Systems, in
consolidation with the Data Analytics Manager.
• Identify opportunities to use a broad range of communications technologies to deliver
effective messages.
• Understand, act on, and monitor compliance with information and communications
security and use policies.
• Provide guidance, advice and support across the TSG team and wider Institute on
configuration, deployment, and maintenance across the Institute digital landscape.

3. People & Teams • Participate in meetings to represent work group perspective and share information.
• Work collaboratively to achieve business outcomes for institute staff.
• Participate in discussions and decisions regarding system functionality
• Develop detailed documentation to satisfy business and operational requirements.
• Perform all aspects of planning, development, and implementation on Linux-based services
across the organisation.
• Provide in-depth technical expertise and advice as appropriate to the organisation.

4. Conduct & Safety • Role model behaviours that positively reflect the Institute’s Code of Conduct and Ethics
Policy, Research Code of Conduct and all relevant WHS policies and procedures.

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YOUR PROFILE

CAPABILITIES

• Working experience with both on-premises, public cloud and SAS hosted data management platforms and data
architecture including but not limited to cloud service providers such as Azure and AWS.
• Knowledge and understanding of both batch and fast-moving data paradigms.
• Good knowledge of one or more data warehousing applications that may include Oracle, PL/SQL, Microsoft SQL and
Azure Data Platform technologies.
• Experience with data manipulation and scripting languages such as SQL, Python and Java.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning, data mining and AI principles applied to data patterns recognition resolving data
driven problems.
• Good working experience in establishing MDM (Master Data Management) patterns across the Enterprise data estate.

QUALIFICATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS & PROFICIENCIES

• Possession of graduate or post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline OR be pursuing such qualifications OR

substantial proven experience within the desired areas.
• Skilled in the application of SQL for the design, implementation and maintenance of data engineering solutions to
acquire and prepare data.

KEY SKILL REQUIREMENTS

The Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) digital skills framework has been used to identify the skills required for this position.
SFIA has been applied in 2 ways:

• To identify the level of responsibility required to perform this Job. This is done by looking
at 5 key responsibility attributes - Autonomy, Influence, Complexity, Business Skills and
Knowledge;
• To identify the skills and levels required or desirable to perform this Job.

SFIA provides a 7-level structure for both the level of responsibility AND professional skills, with
some guiding words that act as a brief indicator, as shown in the table to the right.

The Data Architect has been assessed as requiring the following minimum generic levels of
responsibility (LoR):

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 Generic LoR Name SFIA Level Description Guiding Level
Words
Autonomy Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully responsible Ensure/ 5
for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives. Analyses, designs, Advise
plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets.
Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks
and/or responsibilities.

Influence Influences organisation, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the Ensure/ 5
contribution of own specialism. Makes decisions which impact the success of Advise
assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over
the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given
assignments. Leads on user/customer and group collaboration throughout all
stages of work. Ensures users’ needs are met consistently through each work
stage. Builds appropriate and effective business relationships across the
organisation and with customers, suppliers and partners. Creates and supports
collaborative ways of working across group/area of responsibility. Facilitates
collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives.

Complexity Implements and executes policies aligned to strategic plans. Performs an Ensure/ 5
extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work Advise
activities.
Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a
wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Engages and coordinates with
subject matter experts to resolve complex issues as they relate to
customer/organisational requirements. Understands the relationships
between own specialism and customer/ organisational requirements.
Business Skills Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex Enable 4
information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging
with colleagues, users/ customers, suppliers and partners.

Selects appropriately from, and assesses the impact of change to applicable

standards, methods, tools, applications and processes relevant to own
specialism.

Demonstrates an awareness of risk and takes an analytical approach to work.

Maximises the capabilities of applications for their role and evaluates and
supports

the use of new technologies and digital tools.

Contributes specialist expertise to requirements definition in support of

proposals.

Shares knowledge and experience in own specialism to help others.

Learning and professional development — maintains an awareness of

developing

practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own
development.

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 Takes the initiative in identifying and negotiating their own and supporting
team members’ appropriate development opportunities. Contributes to the
development of others.

Security, privacy and ethics — fully understands the importance and

application to own work and the operation of the organisation. Engages or
works with specialists as necessary.

Knowledge Is fully familiar with recognised industry bodies of knowledge both generic and Ensure/ Advise 5
specific, and knowledge of the business, suppliers, partners, competitors and
clients.
Develops a wider breadth of knowledge across the industry or business. Applies
knowledge to help to define the standards which others will apply.

DATA ARCHITECT SFIA SKILLS PROFILE

SFIA8 describes 121 professional skills, each at several of the 7-levels. The skills below have been selected as most relevant for
performance of the Data Architect. These are summarised in the table below, along with an indication of whether they are
required or merely desirable.

SKILLS SUMMARY TABLE

Category Sub Category Skill Code Level Level Level Level Level Level Level
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Strategy & Advice & Consultancy CNSL

Architecture Guidance

Strategy & Advice & Specialist Advice TECH

Architecture Guidance

Strategy & Strategy & Solution ARCH

Architecture Planning Architecture

Strategy & Strategy & Demand DEMM

Architecture Planning Management

Strategy & Security & Privacy Information SCTY

Architecture Security

Strategy & Strategy & Emerging EMRG

Architecture Planning Technology
Monitoring

Strategy & Strategy & Innovation INOV

Architecture Planning

Development & Systems Systems Design DESN

Implementation Development

Development & Data & Analytics Database Design DBDS

Implementation

Development & Data & Analytics Data Modelling & DTAN

Implementation Design

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 Development & Data & Analytics Data Visualisation VISL
Implementation

Development & Data & Analytics Data Management DATM

Implementation

Delivery & Service Capacity CPMG

Operation Management Management

REQUIRED SKILL DESIRABLE SKILL

DETAILED SFIA SKILL DESCRIPTIONS

Category and Level and Code Level Descriptions
Sub-Category

Strategy & Architecture
Advice & Guidance
Level 5 CONSULTANCY (CNSL) - Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements,
collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
CNSL
Identifies, evaluates and recommends options.
Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal
consultancy agreements. Seeks to fully address client needs and implements
solutions if required.
Enhances the capabilities and effectiveness of clients, by ensuring that proposed
solutions are fully understood and appropriately exploited.

Strategy & Architecture
Advice & Guidance
Level 5 SPECIALIST ADVICE (TECH) - Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist
area.
TECH
Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable
specialisms.
Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others. Consolidates expertise from
multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further
organisational objectives.
Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within
the organisation.

Strategy & Architecture
Strategy & Planning
Level 5 SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE (ARCH) - Leads the development of solution architectures
in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
ARCH
Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical
resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are
available, understood and employed in architecture development.
Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and
integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and
recommends actions.
Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including
security) are applied correctly.

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Category and
Sub-Category
Strategy & Architecture
Strategy & Planning
Strategy & Architecture
Security & Privacy
Strategy & Architecture
Strategy & Planning
Strategy & Architecture
Strategy & Planning
Development &
Implementation
Systems Development
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Level and Code Level Descriptions
Level 5 DEMAND MANAGEMENT (DEMM) - Implements demand management analysis and
planning activities.
DEMM
Provides advice to help stakeholders adopt and adhere to the agreed demand
management approach.
Manages the process of integrating demand management with complementary
strategic, operational and change management processes.
Maintains a register of business requests and routes requests to the right place.
Reports on the status of each request.
Reviews new business proposals and provides advice on demand issues. Works with
business representatives to agree and implement short-term and medium-term
modifications to demand.
Level 3 INFORMATION SECURITY (SCTY) - Applies and maintains specific security controls as
required by organisational policy and local risk assessments.
SCTY
Communicates security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs
basic risk assessments for small information systems.
Contributes to the identification of risks that arise from potential technical solution
architectures.
Suggests alternate solutions or countermeasures to mitigate risks. Defines secure
systems configurations in compliance with intended architectures.
Supports investigation of suspected attacks and security breaches.
Level 5 EMERGING TECHNOLOGY MONITORING (EMRG) - Monitors the external
environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
EMRG
Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with
others.
Level 5 INNOVATION (INOV) - Manages the innovation pipeline and executes innovation
processes.
INOV
Develops and adapts innovation tools, processes and infrastructures to drive the
process of innovation. Identifies resources and capabilities needed to support
innovation.
Encourages and motivates innovation communities, teams and individuals to share
creative ideas and learn from failures.
Manages and facilitates the communication and open flow of creative ideas between
interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.
Level 5 SYSTEMS DESIGN (DESN) - Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact
analysis on major design options and trade-offs.
DESN
Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements.
Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and
techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and
manages associated risks.
Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to
development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture
components.
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Category and Level and Code Level Descriptions
Sub-Category

Development & Level 5 DATABASE DESIGN (DBDS) - Provides specialist expertise in the design characteristics
Implementation of database management systems or data warehouse products/services.
Data & Analytics DBDS
Provides expert guidance in the selection, provision and use of database and data
warehouse architectures, software and facilities.
Ensures that physical database design policy supports transactional data
requirements for performance and availability.
Ensures that data warehouse design policy supports demands for business
intelligence and data analytics.

Development & Level 4 DATA MODELLING & DESIGN (DTAN) - Investigates enterprise data requirements
Implementation where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
DTAN
Data & Analytics Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and
the correct level of
detail for meeting assigned objectives.
Provides advice and guidance to others using the data structures and associated
components.

Development & Level 4 DATA VISUALISATION (VISL) - Applies a variety of visualisation techniques and
Implementation designs the content and appearance of data visuals.
VISL
Data & Analytics Operationalises and automates activities for efficient and timely production of data
visuals.
Selects appropriate visualisation approaches from a range of applicable options.
Contributes to exploration and experimentation in data visualisation.

Development & Level 4 DATA MANAGEMENT (DATM) - Devises and implements master data management
Implementation processes for specific subsets of data.
Data & Analytics DATM
Assesses the integrity of data from multiple sources.
Provides advice on the transformation of data from one format/medium to another.
Maintains and implements information handling procedures.
Enables the availability, integrity and searchability of information through the
application of formal data and metadata structures and protection measures.

Delivery & Operation
Service Management
Level 5 CAPACITY MANAGEMENT (CPMG) - Manages capacity modelling and forecasting
activities.
CPMG
Proactively reviews information in conjunction with service level agreements to
identify any capacity issues and specifies any required changes. Provides advice to
support the design of service components, including designing in flexible and scalable
capacity.
Works with business representatives to agree and implement short- and medium-
term modifications to capacity.
Drafts and maintains standards and procedures for service component capacity
management. Ensures the correct implementation of standards and procedures.

YOUR OUTPUTS/ KEY RESULT AREAS

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 1. Connection to the Cause • Defining and maintaining an enterprise data architecture including a corporate view of data
assets with high level data models, data dictionary, policies and standards.
• Strive to simplify and standardise the data architecture, removing overlaps, inconsistencies
and siloes.
• Defining and maintaining an ‘as is’ data architecture; including data models, business data
definitions and other metadata.

• Facilitating integrated and managed metadata that enables a broad range of capabilities from
business self-service to code reuse.
• Support the Data Governance Manager to ensure compliance with legislative requirements,
ensuring all components are properly integrated and implemented with accountability for
ongoing stewardship.
• Act as an advocate for the adoption and use of the enterprise data models, and act as a mentor
to others.

2. Systems & Processes • You work closely with the Data Analytics Manager to ensure all solutions are documented
and meet end-user expectations.

• You ensure all solutions meet the security requirements of the Institute and its Data
Governance policies.

• You comply with all operational policies and procedures and applicable legislation.

3. People & Teams • You assist the Data Analytics Manager in creating and updating processes, procedures, and
documentation.
• You provide general technology guidance to the wider team

• You foster a harmonious and collaborative team culture and support the REDI vision –
respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• You maintain and enhance your skills and knowledge through participation in education and
professional development.

4. Conduct & Safety • You behave in a manner that upholds and positively models the Institute’s Code of Conduct
and Ethics Policy, and the Research Code of Conduct.
• You comply with all relevant Institute WHS policies and procedures.
• You take reasonable care to maintain your own health and safety and that of others.
• You actively participate in making the Institute a safe and healthy workplace through
communication and consultation processes.

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