Lead Data Analyst

Shape Economic Group’s data infrastructure and practice to support data-driven decision-making
- Champion best practice, innovation and good governance across Economic Group
- Sydney-based with flexible working arrangements

About the team

Join the Economic Analytical & Technical Services team within the Economic Analysis Department, which provides the trusted data infrastructure, tools, and practices that power research, forecasting, and policy advice across the Economic Group.

About the role

As the Lead Data Analyst, you will lead the development of core parts of EA’s data and code ecosystem - aligning infrastructure investments with strategic priorities, ensuring shared code assets are robust and discoverable, and embedding best practices that scale across teams. You’ll also represent EA in Bank-wide forums on infrastructure and technology, influencing decisions that shape the future of data-driven policy.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of EA’s core forecasting infrastructure, in line with group strategic priority.
- Maintain and enhance EA’s critical code assets, particularly group-owned R packages, and partner with other sections to prioritise and uplift specific infrastructure, ensuring alignment to EA’s strategic direction and risk appetite.
- Collaborate with EC’s Data Infrastructure Working Group (DIWG) to promote best practices in data and code management, ensuring documentation is maintained, and version control is implemented.
- Lead initiatives that foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement in technical practices across the department.

Your background
- Advanced experience in data infrastructure and analytics enablement.
- Expert in R and SQL with experience in R package development, testing, and documentation. Familiarity with reproducible research tools like Shiny and RMarkdown is desirable.
- Experience in Git-based workflows, branching strategies and release management.
- Advanced experience with database and business intelligence concepts.
- Understanding of economic and statistical concepts, and how infrastructure and tooling support forecasting, analysis, and publication workflows.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with a proven ability of influencing across technical and non-technical audiences.

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Application Close:
October 02, 2025

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