Data Product Management Senior Manager

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Data Product Manager to lead the strategy, development and evolution of data products that enable trusted data to be discovered and used across Retail Banking Services. The role sits at the intersection of data, technology and business strategy, translating complex needs into scalable data product roadmaps and governance practices.

You will lead cross-functional teams, setting direction and ensuring data products are reusable, well-governed and aligned to

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading enterprise-level data initiatives.
• Expertise in data governance, metadata management and data strategy.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to lead people, upskill teams and foster collaboration.
• Thought leadership in Data, AI or Analytics with a drive to democratise data use.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS/Snowflake) would be valuable.
• Understanding of data quality, stewardship, governance across data-product lifecycles.
• Ability to align business, engineering, and data-management teams to deliver complex outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and roadmap for data products across Retail Banking Services.
• Translate business needs into scalable data products and governance practices.
• Ensure data products meet governance, metadata, risk and control standards.
• Drive adoption and reuse of data products across teams and use cases.
• Mentor data professionals and strengthen data-product capability across the organisation.
• Partner with domain leaders to embed enterprise data-management standards.

Skills

Data strategy

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI/Analytics

Cloud data platforms

AWS

Snowflake

Data products

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Python

Job description

• Lead the strategy and evolution of Retail data products
• Turn complex data needs into scalable, reusable solutions
• Shape how data enables better customer and business outcomes

Do Work that Matters

Data is central to how we understand our customers, make better decisions and create more personalised experiences across Retail Banking Services.

As Senior Data Product Manager, you’ll lead the strategy, development and evolution of data products that make high-quality, trusted data easier to discover, access and use across the business.

This is a senior leadership role sitting at the intersection of data, technology and business strategy. You’ll work across Retail Banking Services and the broader Data community to identify where data can create the greatest value, translate complex business needs into clear data product strategies, and bring together engineering, data management and business teams to deliver them at scale. You’ll combine strong data product thinking with enough technical depth to influence how products are designed, governed and engineered, ensuring they are reusable, well-managed and built around genuine consumer needs.

See Yourself in Our Team

Retail Advanced Analytics and Data works across Retail Banking Services to strengthen how we use Data, Advanced Analytics and AI to improve customer and business outcomes.

We bring together people with diverse experience across data, analytics and technology, combining deep technical capability with business understanding to solve complex problems and enable better data-driven decision-making.

We’re curious, collaborative and focused on turning data into practical capability that can be used and scaled across the organisation.

You will:

• Lead the vision, strategy and roadmap for data products across Retail Banking Services, aligning investment and delivery to business priorities.
• Partner with business, technology, data engineering and Data Delivery leaders to identify opportunities and translate business needs into scalable data products.
• Lead the development and evolution of high-quality, reusable and well-governed data products that can be consumed confidently across teams and use cases.
• Establish clear understanding of data-product consumers, their requirements and the business outcomes products need to enable.
• Bring strong business context into product design, helping engineering and data teams make the right decisions around data structure, quality, accessibility and reuse.
• Ensure data products meet applicable data management, metadata, risk, control and governance standards.
• Identify existing data products that require improvement and lead the work to increase their quality, usability, performance or fitness for purpose.
• Strengthen relationships between data producers and consumers, creating clearer ownership and accountability across the data-product lifecycle.
• Help standardise and scale effective data-product practices across Retail Banking Services.
• Provide senior thought leadership across Data, AI and Analytics, helping strengthen data-product capability and mentoring data professionals across the organisation.
• Partner with Domain leaders to embed enterprise data-management standards and practices.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience leading enterprise-level data initiatives, with a core background in Data Engineering, Architecture.
• Expertise in data governance, metadata management, data product focused mindset and business-aligned data strategy.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional leadership experience.
• A passion for leading people, upskilling teams and championing collaboration.
• Thought leadership in Data, AI, or Analytics with a drive to democratise data use.
• Experience in Data Cloud migration and exposure to AWS eco system would be desirable.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, data quality, stewardship and data management across the data-product lifecycle.
• Experience bringing together business, engineering, architecture and data-management teams to deliver complex outcomes across organisational boundaries.
• Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to navigate competing priorities and create alignment around a product vision.
• Experience leading, coaching or mentoring data professionals and lifting data-product capability across teams.
• A strong understanding of how AI and Advanced Analytics consume and depend upon trusted, well-designed data products.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and large-scale data modernisation or migration programmes. Exposure to AWS and Snowflake would be highly regarded.

Technical Capability

You don’t need to be the person writing production code every day, but you’ll need sufficient technical depth to challenge, influence and make informed decisions with engineering and architecture teams. We’d value experience across:

• Data engineering and architecture: modern data engineering patterns, data modelling, architecture and integration.
• Cloud data platforms: experience delivering data capabilities on cloud infrastructure, ideally including AWS and Snowflake.
• Data management: data quality, metadata, lineage, stewardship, governance and controls.
• Engineering practices: familiarity with SQL, Python, GitHub and CI/CD environments.
• Data products: experience establishing clear ownership, consumers, service expectations and lifecycle management for enterprise data products.

Working With Us

At CommBank, we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace. If you require support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.