4 Lead Architect jobs in Australia

As a Data Tech Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our data strategy and infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership position where you'll guide the design, development, and optimization of data solutions that power business insights and innovation.
You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to architect scalable data pipelines, ensure high-quality data flows, and support analytics initiatives across the organization. Your expertise will help us unlock the full potential of our data assets, enabling smarter decision-making and driving operational efficiency.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, Agile environment, enjoys solving complex data challenges, and is passionate about mentoring others while staying deeply involved in technical execution.
**As a Data Tech Lead, you will:**
+ Lead initiatives in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, and Data Migration.
+ Design and implement robust ELT/ETL processes, ensuring efficient data extraction, transformation, and pipeline development.
+ Apply your expertise in data modeling, data analysis, and data profiling to support business intelligence and decision-making.
+ Develop scalable and maintainable data pipelines using tools like SSIS and SQL Server.
+ Collaborate within an Agile environment, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement.
+ Utilize SQL for data manipulation and querying, and manage code using GitHub or similar source control tools.
**What We're Looking For:**
+ Proven experience in data engineering and data architecture.
+ Strong proficiency in SQL, SSIS, and data modeling concepts.
+ Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools and data pipeline development.
+ Familiarity with Agile methodologies and collaborative team environments.
+ Experience with source code control tools like GitHub.
**Benefits**
Joining Cognizant will give you the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry, while having your finger on the pulse of emerging industry trends and working on the cutting edge of technology in your field of expertise. We recognize that our people perform at their best when they feel valued as significant contributors and that is why at Cognizant, taking care of our employees is a priority:
+ You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here
+ You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training
+ We'll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future.
Please reach out to our friendly and welcoming team today to apply and register your interest for this full-time hybrid Data Tech Lead position.
At Cognizant, we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life because we're dedicated to making a lasting impact. Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at or @cognizant.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Lead Business Architect - Pega Consulting ANZ
Job Category: Professional Services
Location: Australia - Sydney
**Meet Our Team:**
Are you ready to be part of a dynamic consulting team that's transforming how the world's leading organizations operate? At Pega, we're seeking passionate Business Architect consultants who can bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions using our cutting-edge enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation platform.
Our team lives and breathes the Pega delivery vision: quickly building high-quality, outcome-driven applications that evolve with the changing needs of business. As a key member of the Pega Consulting team, you'll work with passionate and driven project teams, delivering innovative solutions that create real business impact.
**Picture Yourself at Pega:**
As a Lead Business Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in structuring the business processes and information architecture for major organizations. In this role, you'll help drive organizations forward from their current state to their desired future state, collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure that solutions align perfectly with business requirements.
You'll accomplish your goals by working with dynamic project teams to align strategic objectives with business and IT initiatives. Your expertise in consulting, communication, and business process design will be instrumental as you engage with executive stakeholders and technical teams to deliver transformative solutions.
**What You'll Do at Pega:**
- Partner with both clients, Pega partners and technical teams to develop high-quality deliverables across all project phases, from discovery and requirements definition through to user acceptance testing
- Leverage your industry experience to consult and influence client direction toward best practices, Public Sector, State or Federal Government experience is useful.
- Lead discovery workshops and requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders
- Demonstrate your commitment to customer success by ensuring delivered solutions perform to business requirements and exceed expectations
- Support Account Executives and Project Delivery Leads in pursuing new opportunities
- Teach and drive the use of Pega's methodology among clients, partners, and teammates
- Get Hands-on Pega tools such as Blueprint and App studio run live in client workshops
- Demonstrate deep understanding of our strategic applications supporting each market and how to leverage them to drive early value.
**Who You Are:**
An intelligent, motivated, collaborative professional with exceptional communication skills and proven experience working with diverse teams of business users and IT professionals. You have a strong consulting background and experience implementing business process changes in customer organizations.
**What You've Accomplished:**
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in analysis, requirements gathering, design, and development of enterprise application systems
- Experience working in consulting roles with a track record of successful client engagements (essential)
- Strong experience in journey mapping, data modelling and building future state workflows aligning to the business needs.
- **Signifcant experience with Pe** **ga (essential)** as well asCRM, BPM platforms (for example Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow or similar)
- Excellent time management and organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Creative and strategic thinking with a focus on achieving outcomes
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders
- Willingness to travel when needed (critical project phases only, typically 1-2 weeks at a time if interstate)
**Pega Offers You:**
Gartner and Forrester analyst-acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
- Continuous learning and development opportunities
- An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
- Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company, Full Health, life insurances
- Opportunity to work with leading organizations on transformative projects
**Location:** This role can be based in either Sydney, Melbourne, or Canberra,
**Travel:** Approximately 25% travel required, primarily for critical project phases
Pegasystems is the leader in cloud software for customer engagement and operational excellence. Our adaptive, cloud-architected software - built on the unified Pega Platform - empowers people to rapidly deploy and easily change applications to meet strategic business needs.
Pega's low-code application development platform allows enterprises to quickly build and evolve apps to meet their customer and employee needs and drive digital transformation on a global scale. For more than 40 years, Pega has enabled higher customer satisfaction, lower costs, and increased customer lifetime value.
Role Opened 19/6/25 role closing 18/8/25
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Job ID: 21908
**AI in Action -** Pega embraces the power of artificial intelligence. We encourage all employees to actively engage with AI technologies and continually explore ways to responsibly integrate AI into our products and processes.
**Culture -** At Pegasystems, we foster an environment where people feel valued and empowered to contribute their best. With global clients across industries and regions, we know our success depends on the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents of our people. Ours is a workplace where everyone can grow, collaborate, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and focus on the core competencies and mindset needed to thrive in a role.
As an Equal Opportunity employer, Pegasystems will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran or disability status, or any other category protected by law.
**Export Compliance -** For positions requiring access to technical data subject to export control regulations such as this, Pegasystems may need to obtain export license approval from the U.S. Government and EU Authorities for certain individuals.
**Accommodations -** If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (US only) or comparable regional regulations in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process,or contact (US only) 1-888-PEGA-NOW and/or 225 Wyman Street Waltham, MA 02451 ATTN: Benefits.
It is Pega's policy to engage, recruit, hire, promote, train, discipline, and compensate in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

**Position Summary:**
We are seeking a highly skilled Test Architect with Data Analyst skills who has expertise in Databricks, PySpark, MongoDB, and Azure Cloud to lead quality assurance team and data analytics initiatives across our enterprise data platforms. This role involves designing and implementing automated testing frameworks to validate data pipelines, transformations, and storage systems, ensuring high data quality and integrity. In addition to QA leadership, the role requires working with various data analytics tools and techniques to generate impactful insights that support strategic business decisions.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data warehouse technologies, cloud-based architecture and data modelling, with a solid understanding of business intelligence principles and cloud computing platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. Familiarity with data architecture, data warehouse models, Kimball methodology, dimensional modelling, and the Data Vault approach is essential. The successful candidate will be ISTQB certified and have insurance domain and cloud certifications, bringing valuable domain knowledge in the insurance industry while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define testing standards, reduce quality costs, and ensure data integrity at scale.
**Mandatory Skills:**
+ Proven expertise in Data Warehouse Quality Assurance using cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Databricks, PySpark.
+ Strong data analysis capabilities, with the ability to interpret and validate complex datasets using a variety of data analysis tools to interpret and report on data
+ Experience in defining and implementing testing standards, methodologies, and best practices across cross-functional teams.
+ Hands-on proficiency in both structured and unstructured databases Spark-SQL, MongoDB, Unix, Oracle, Redshift, and PySpark.
+ Solid understanding of data modeling, SQL querying and data pipeline design.
+ Ability to comprehend and translate complex business requirements into effective testing strategies.
+ Practical experience working within an Agile development environment.
+ Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset, including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Git.
+ In-depth insurance domain knowledge, with a focus on data-centric applications.
+ Strong understanding of data modeling techniques, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models
+ Experience in cloud data migration projects involving insurance COTS products such as Guidewire and Evolve
+ Experience in validating ML models, automating testing pipelines, and ensuring model robustness and fairness. Skilled in Python, PyTest, MLflow, and CI/CD tools using Jenkins and Docker.
+ Certified in ISTQB, Azure Cloud, and insurance domains
**Duties and Responsibilities:**
+ Prepare and own the end-to-end test strategy for Data Warehouse programs
+ Liaison with BSA to understand the requirements
+ Create / update the Requirements traceability matrix with test scenarios.
+ Create/Modify the SQL test scripts as per the ETL mapping documents and technical specifications & Requirements.
+ Run the jobs and perform smoke testing
+ Record and maintain testing evidence and track execution status of assigned test cases.
+ Analyze test results and defect data to identify trends and root causes.
+ Use data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Python libraries) to present testing metrics and KPIs.
+ Develop predictive models to forecast defect density, test coverage gaps, and release readiness.
+ Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on production and test data to uncover quality issues
+ Identify defects and log failures.
+ Track defects (defect log as generated from the QC tool/JIRA Tool) to closure.
+ Participate in the defect triages to gather evidence for defect identification on periodic basis for defect prioritization and fix.
+ Internal review and share for stakeholder review and feedback. Collaborate closely with BA & development team
+ Ensure all test data aligns with privacy and compliance requirements across test environments
+ Lead the development of automated test suites for functional, performance, and security testing.
+ Design and implement automated testing pipelines for ML models using PyTest and MLflow.
+ Integrate test automation with CI/CD pipelines.
+ Monitor and maintain test environments and data integrity.
**Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):**
+ Bachelor of Engineering
+ Azure DP-900 certification (or any equivalent)
+ ISTQB certification
+ Insurance domain certification-LOMA 280 & 290 certified for insurance domain (or any equivalent).
+ Understanding of mining tools to automate turning unstructured text into structured data
**Salary Range:** >$100,000
**Date of Posting: 31/July/2025**
**Next Steps:** If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
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