Company Description
At Open Universities Australia (OUA), we believe that quality education should be accessible to everyone, regardless of where they are or their prior educational experiences. When we excel at our jobs, we change lives every day. Our values are the compass guiding our journey: we act for our customers, take care of each other, and we work to continuously improve.
Job Description
This role will play a key part in evolving OUA’s analytics capability, creating a modern, intuitive, and self-service reporting experience. You will help create a seamless, consistent, and engaging reporting experience that empowers our partners and stakeholders to access the insights they need.
The focus is on rebuilding and enhancing our analytics platform so that it delivers greater access, consistency, and self-service. By leveraging modern data models, enriched metadata, and best-practice design, you will enable a beautiful user experience where people can easily interrogate the data, explore insights, and follow their curiosity with confidence.
- Lead the rebuild of OUA’s GoodData Cloud platform, ensuring it is future-ready for AI-enabled search and reporting.
- Work closely with the Data team to enrich and expand data models, including leveraging metadata across the data landscape to enable future AI capabilities.
- Design, develop, test and deploy reporting dashboards that empower stakeholders with accurate, actionable insights.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define KPIs, validate outputs, and iterate on solutions through feedback and prototyping.
- Apply best-practice BI approaches, including automation of repeatable processes, documenting standards, and building scalable reporting frameworks.
Qualifications
A track record in BI, data engineering or development, with strong SQL skills
Proven experience implementing or rebuilding cloud-based BI platforms
Hands-on knowledge of AWS data tools (Redshift, Glue, AppFlow) and modern data stack (e.g. DBT)
Ability to design dimensional models and enrich metadata for scalable reporting and AI enablement
Strong analytical skills, able to uncover insights and present them clearly
Experience gathering requirements, translating them into solutions, and validating with stakeholders
We’re also looking for someone who is:
Curious, adaptable, and eager to explore new ideas
Self-directed, resilient, and focused on delivering quality outcomes
Collaborative, sharing knowledge and co-creating solutions
Able to connect data, technology, and business needs into cohesive solutions
What do we offer?
- Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits, including novated leasing
- Discounted gym memberships and health insurance
- Learning and training opportunities
- Subsidised study opportunities
- Paid subscription to Calm as part of our commitment to health and wellbeing
- Inclusive leave policy to swap and recognise significant events that fall outside of our public holidays
- Workation leave – work anywhere for 10 days of the year
OUA is committed to building and fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace. Our marketplace is for everyone, so is our workplace. Come and share your personal experiences, your perspectives, and your background with us as we continue to help students transform their lives.
We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to get in touch, even if you don’t meet all the requirements of the advertised position. It’s highly likely you’ll bring something to the workplace that we haven’t thought of yet, and we would love to hear from you.
