Head of Data

7 months ago

Melbourne, Australia URBIS Full time

**Who we are**:
Urbis is people focussed, and we want the best for our team, our clients, and our communities. Our mission is about helping people create meaningful, sustainable cities & communities. We are a community of passionate problem solvers, sought out by clients for our fresh thinking and approach to their city-shaping projects. Here you will make a tangible difference and positive impact, while gaining incredible industry experience and broad ranging exposure to the most exciting work.
We pride ourselves in empowering our employees and supporting them to be the best they can be. You will have the benefits of salary continuance insurance, generous parental leave policy for both primary & secondary carers, work life balance, health & wellbeing programs and much more.
Urbis is an employer of choice for gender equality (EOCGE), recognised through the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
Urbis shaping Futures your way

**The Opportunity**:
Your focus will be to build the future data universe for our firm to expedite services for our clients leveraging our current technology investment and enable technology and automation opportunities for our employees whilst balancing both emerging and disruptive technology trends.

**You will**:
Team leadership & management
- Provide strong personal, people and team leadership, demonstrated by the ability to coach, develop and support the development of team members, including providing timely and constructive feedback to support high performance.
- Contribute to a team culture that fosters and supports knowledge sharing, innovation and excellence.

Stake holder partnering
- Working with internal stakeholders to identify, source and manage the extraction of data.
- Helping visualise the way data is presented both internally and externally.
- Sharing your knowledge and 'how to' processes within the team through ongoing learning and development, including the preparation of process documentation.
- Running information and knowledge sharing sessions to demonstrate the art of the possible.
- Work closely with the Spatial Team to broaden capability and development in data science.

Data Centralising
- Building partnerships with our business to identify efficiencies for both automation and data opportunities.
- Leveraging the recent Data Maturity Assessment Report and understanding findings to execute our Data Roadmap to uplift overall data maturity at Urbis and Cistri;
- Support the Implementation of a new Data Lakehouse.

Business Intelligence
- Undertake analysis across numerous data sources to identify trends, build hypotheses, extract and model the data to support the findings of the team.
- Understand and extend existing Data Warehouse for data manipulation.
- Assist in the development of predictive data models.
- Implement advanced technological solutions such as machine learning within the business.

**About You**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Mathematics, Econometrics, Statistics, Software Engineering/Computer Science or Data Science
- Proficiency with SOL and R on big data (Billions + records datasets)
- Experience with some (or all) of the following - Amazon Web Services (specifically RedShift), Geospatial datasets, Apache Sparks, GIT, Microsoft PowerBI, Agile Development Methodologies and the Data Republic Data Science Workspace
- A background of consulting and/or research with an innovative mindset
- Strong data science background including spatial and or statistical machine learning techniques.
- Understanding of data governance and taxonomy
- Experience with process improvement methodologies and data-driven decision making.

Why Urbis?
Urbis is committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive, supports flexibility, and welcomes diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
Urbis is an employer of choice for gender equality (EOCGE), recognised through the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The WGEA citation is designed to formally encourage, recognise and promote active commitment to achieving gender equality in Australian workplaces. This citation is the gold standard certification for employers who are committed to making positive, measurable improvements towards gender equality and only held by 129 organisations nationally.
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