Data Modeller - EQLDJP00001644

Data Modeller | 12-Month Contract | Brisbane
Duration: 12-month initial contract with possible extensions
Location: Brisbane
Work Arrangements: Hybrid, with 2–3 days working from home

Company Overview
BLACKROC is partnering with a leading organisation in the energy and utilities sector to recruit a Data Modeller.

Role Purpose
Join an established enterprise data team running a modern Databricks Lakehouse that's growing rapidly. You'll turn business needs into trusted, reusable logical datasets that power reporting and analytics across multiple business domains. This is a contemporary, hands-on modelling role. You'll be embedded in agile delivery teams, working side by side with stakeholders and data engineers to go quickly from business concept to implementation-ready design.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders, analysts, data owners and architects to understand business processes, reporting needs and analytical use cases.
• Design and maintain logical data models and business-oriented datasets within the Lakehouse.
• Apply the Enterprise Data Model to drive consistent definitions and reuse across domains.
• Analyse source systems and existing data assets to uncover relationships, structures and business meaning.
• Facilitate workshops to agree business concepts, entities, attributes and measures.
• Identify authoritative data sources and establish agreed business definitions.
• Validate and refine dataset designs iteratively with stakeholders, alongside engineers who build the prototypes.
• Maintain data dictionaries, business glossaries and metadata.
• Ensure designs align with governance, security and information architecture standards.
• Partner with Data Engineers to implement agreed designs, and contribute actively to agile delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in data modelling, data warehousing, analytics engineering or a related role.
• Proven experience designing logical data models and analytical datasets from business requirements.
• Strong grasp of dimensional and analytical modelling, and of modern Lakehouse architecture.
• Experience analysing complex source systems and documenting definitions, relationships and mappings.
• Confident workshop facilitation with both business and technical audiences, including building consensus on competing definitions.
• Experience with data dictionaries, business glossaries or metadata assets.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality, reference data and authoritative sources.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, and comfort in agile teams.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Data modelling experience on Databricks or a comparable cloud analytics platform.
• Electricity, energy or utilities sector experience.
• Experience with Enterprise Data Models, Information Models or domain-based modelling.
• Experience designing datasets for self-service and data product use cases.

Please click the 'Apply' button to submit your resume. For more information please contact Usama at [email protected] or on [0414 330 211](tel:0414 330 211).

At BLACKROC Recruitment, we are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including those with lived experiences. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to reach out to the above-mentioned BLACKROC Consultant.