Enterprise Data Architect (9-month engagement)

Join Turnitin, a leading educational technology company, as an Enterprise Data Architect for a 9-month engagement. In this role, you will shape Turnitin's enterprise data strategy by establishing the foundations for trusted, scalable, and decision-ready information. You will assess the current reporting and analytics landscape, define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data, and develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics. You will work closely with executive stakeholders across the organization and produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment.

• Assess Turnitin's current reporting and analytics landscape, identify the root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics.
• Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data, develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment, facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders.
• We're seeking a pragmatic enterprise data leader who is equally comfortable engaging with executives and technical teams
• Data quality and reporting controls
• Analytics and reporting governance
• Enterprise data architecture and governance
• Metric definition and stewardship
• Executive and Board reporting environments
• Cross-functional stakeholder management
• You'll bring experience in areas such as:
• Experience in SaaS, subscription businesses or distributed analytics environments would be highly advantageous
• Strong documentation, process design, and executive communication skills
• Experience operating across Finance, Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence functions
• Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-functional agreement on enterprise metric definitions and ownership, particularly in environments where multiple functions have independently built reporting capabilities and no shared standard exists
• Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills
• Experience defining governance frameworks, ownership models, and metric standards
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation processes, and reporting controls
• Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to the use of customer and employee data
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls
• Experience designing operating models for enterprise data functions, including roles and responsibilities, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, governance forums, and resourcing requirements to sustain an ongoing data governance capability
• Familiarity with sales, bookings, ARR, pipeline, retention, customer, usage, and financial reporting data
• Experience in SaaS, subscription, EdTech, or other data-intensive technology businesses
• Exposure to ERP, HRIS, and production data environments
• Experience working with Salesforce and related GTM data structures
• Experience supporting reporting used for Board materials, executive reviews, financial planning, or investor reporting
• Management consulting or specialist data advisory background, with experience leading multiple data governance or data strategy engagements across different client organisations
• Experience designing governance models in a distributed analytics environment where multiple functions have independently developed reporting capabilities