Domain Architect - Data AI & IoT

Position Purpose

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Domain Architect - Data AI & IoT (Full-Time, Permanent) to join our Digital Partnerships & Data team.  

In this newly created role, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of WaterNSW's data, AI and IoT landscape. You will provide strategic and technical leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and interoperable platforms aligned to business priorities, with safety at the core. You’ll define and govern the target-state architecture across data, analytics, AI/ML, and IoT while enabling trusted, AI-ready data, supporting responsible AI adoption and integrating operational data into enterprise platforms that enables smarter decision-making.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state. This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you’ll be supported to build a rewarding career. 

Our perks and Benefits:

At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that’s why we offer a load of benefits. 

• Flexible working 
• Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise Agreement  
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Fertility leave 
• Corporate wear allowance 
• Professional development and educational assistance 
• Salary Range $156,345 - $187,631 base + super
• And so much more!

What you’ll do:

• Domain Leadership & Governance: Define and maintain the enterprise architecture for Data, AI, and IoT, ensuring alignment with business strategy. Lead the evolution of enterprise data and AI architecture maturity.  
• Enterprise Data Strategy & Architecture: Shape the organisation’s data strategy, including data governance, quality, and lifecycle management. Design scalable, cloud-native data platforms and ensure alignment with enterprise integration, analytics, and AI frameworks to enable a single, trusted data environment.
• Architecture Development, Innovation & Optimisation: Develop and maintain data, AI, and IoT frameworks. Champion innovation through AI/ML, automation, and advanced analytics while ensuring ethical, secure, and explainable AI adoption. Drive rationalisation and optimisation initiatives to deliver measurable business value.
• Program Delivery & Architectural Assurance: Provide strategic architectural leadership for data, AI, and IoT components in projects. Validate designs against enterprise standards and integration requirements. Represent the data and AI architecture domain in governance and investment forums (internal and external), ensuring traceability from business outcomes to technical delivery.
• AI Investment & Assurance: Assess new AI initiatives for technical feasibility, ethics, privacy, and governance compliance. Ensure initiatives are captured in the AI Investments Register and report assurance outcomes. Establish and maintain the enterprise AI governance framework, ensuring responsible, transparent, and compliant AI use across the organisation.

What we are looking for: 

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Extensive experience in enterprise data, AI, and IoT architecture with solid understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, model lifecycle, AI governance, risk classification, human oversight, explainability, bias, privacy and secure use of AI within enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience in rationalisation, optimisation, and integration of complex data platforms, with experience designing modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent, including ingestion, transformation, lakehouse/warehouse patterns, semantic models, reporting, advanced analytics and AI-ready data products.
• Ability to define target-state data architecture, data models, data flows, master data, metadata, lineage, data quality, ownership, stewardship and governance patterns across enterprise platforms.
• Strong background in stakeholder engagement, influencing senior leaders, and guiding delivery teams.
• Current NSW Drivers Licence.

How we will support you:

At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals. When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities.

Our commitment & culture:

No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public. WaterNSW is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Veterans, and people from all backgrounds to apply. We celebrate the unique perspectives, knowledge and lived experience you bring and are committed to ensuring an inclusive, supportive and respectful workplace for everyone.

Who is WaterNSW?

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.   We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more at waternsw.com.au.

For more information, please reach out to: Jasmine Choong on jasmine.choong@waternsw.com.au.

Please note applications for this position will close on Wednesday 24th June 2026, 11:59PM.

You must have full work rights in Australia to qualify for all positions at WaterNSW. 

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