Survey Systems and Integrations Manager

• Full time, continuing position
• Key role in managing the University’s student survey platform and maintaining teaching evaluation data
• Offering a competitive remuneration package including 17% superannuation
   

About the opportunity

Thes University’s Advanced Analytics, Planning and Enterprise Data (AAPE) team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced systems and survey professional to manage the operational delivery and ongoing administration of the University’s student survey platform. This platform supports one of the institution’s most significant datasets, the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Working within a high-impact education and insights function, this role will ensure the stability, governance and performance of the platform during a major institutional transition across 2026–2027.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to directly contribute to academic assurance, learning quality improvement and institutional reporting.
 

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• work closely with senior academic leaders, education stakeholders, system vendors and internal technical teams
• serve as the primary owner of all AAPE student survey platforms (Explorance Blue, Qualtrics), ensuring stability and alignment with institutional teaching and learning priorities oversee platform configuration, lifecycle management and system integrations
• Design, configure, and maintain the integrations between the survey platform (e.g., Blue Explorance, Qualtrics,) and upstream/downstream systems such as data warehouses
• Understand automated data pipelines for survey deployment, response collection, and result delivery using REST APIs, webhooks, and ELT/ETL processes to work in line with Data Engineering team.
• Translate business requirements from academic and administrative stakeholders into functional integration specifications, configuring data field mappings, transformation rules, and synchronisation schedules within the survey environment
• manage survey programming, data validation and reporting workflows for surveys and related programs
• ensure governance controls, risk mitigation and AI analytics quality assurance processes are maintained
• support structured change management and continuous improvement initiatives during the platform transition and beyond.  
   

About you

• extensive experience in managing large data sources and complex data across a large and diverse organisations (higher-education sector and management of student data is advantageous)
• proven experience managing enterprise survey platforms, system integrations and data workflows
• demonstrated expertise in survey design, administration and utilising analytics platforms to develop actionable recommendations
• highly proficient in the use of SQL and related languages for extracting data from relational and non-relational environments
• Experience using, Explorance Blue, Qualtrics, or similar enterprise platforms is highly advantageous
• elevated communication and influencing skills to operate with tact and professionalism across a diverse range of internal and external audiences
• experience applying governance, risk and data quality controls across reporting and evaluation systems
• demonstrated ability to translate survey data into actionable insights and institutional reporting outcomes.

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to be eligible to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.

Pre-employment checks and declarations 

Your employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks required for the role in terms satisfactory to the University.  Also, to meet the University’s obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence you will be asked to declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

EEO statement 

At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. 

We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer. Find out more about our work on diversity and inclusion. 

How to apply

Applications (including a cover letter, CV, and any additional supporting documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.  

For employees of the University or contingent workers, please login into your Workday account and navigate to the Career icon on your Dashboard.  Click on USYD Find Jobs and apply.

For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require reasonable adjustment or any documents in alternate formats, please contact Laura Pierce, Recruitment Operations by email to laura.pierce@sydney.edu.au.

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Applications Close

Sunday 21 June 2026 11:59 PM