Datacentre Project Manager
Job Description:
Australian Citizens With NV1 Clearance residing in Australia only respond
The Data Centricity Project Manager (DCPM) position leads the Data Centricity work
stream of the Warfighting Applications Product Line. The primary role of this position
is to direct and manage the design and implementation of the Data Centricity
Initiatives for the use and management of Data to support the warfighter.
The DCPM assists the WAPLM with overall management, coordination and reporting
of the Data Centricity team within the wider WAPL Project Team.
The successful candidate will have Industry experience, formal training or Defence
Data domain expertise to deliver the key outcomes of the role. This will include
demonstrated experience in the use of contemporary best practice with regards to
Data principles, exchange agreements, frameworks, engineering practices,
approaches, metadata, standards and technologies.
At the technical level they are expected to be able to read and understand technical
documentation describing Defence applications in order to extract pertinent
characterising information. They have the technical abilities to characterise an
applications data flow, input output and how application data is stored. Knowledge
and experience in database systems to understand the contents of internally stored
data would be advantageous.
The candidate will need to maintain awareness of different standards for Common
Data Formats in this domain, as well as known Information Exchange Requirements
between extant Command & Control (C2) applications. The candidate is expected to
develop and maintain a database of data transformation policies/rules to enable the
reliable symmetric transformation between data types.
Responsibilities include:
Leading the Data Centricity workstream including development and
implementation of plans and tools to ensure effective management of scope,
cost, procurement, schedule, risk, resources, performance monitoring,
benefits realisation, communication, information and integration/stakeholder
engagement.
Maintaining program and project planning tools including Jira, MS Project &
Project Central in order to monitor progress against WAPL Data Centricity
Objectives. This includes reporting obligations internally and externally to the
WSO for input into artefacts such as the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
Work with key stakeholders to draft the data maturity assessment framework
Risk identification, analysis, control and monitoring.
Conduct the data maturity assessment across different roles and node types
Coordinate application discovery and technical examination of C2
Applications to help creation of Data Dictionaries
Manage application discovery and technical examination of C2 Applications