Manager - Energy Assets Data & AI

agl; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AGL Energy seeks a senior Data & AI leader within Energy Assets to shape governance, centralise a federated data model, and align data practices with enterprise platforms. You’ll guide data generation, tagging, storage and consumption, ensuring consistent naming conventions and secure data fabric.

You will collaborate with data professionals and stakeholders to drive lifecycle management, data quality, and policy compliance across operations and assets.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data governance and data management in operations.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive change.
• Desirable leadership experience in an asset or energy environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, acquisition, storage, organisation, destruction and archiving of all generation asset data.
• Govern Energy Assets data strategy and maintain alignment with IT data standards.
• Execute data integration and migration projects across enterprise platforms.
• Develop data processes and guidelines for governance and usage.
• Build networks to drive data management improvements across the organisation.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and internal policies for data management.
• Collaborate with data & AI professionals and IT to enable strategic data outcomes.
• Coach data managers and producers to raise Data & AI capability.
• Improve data quality, consistency across domains, and scalable processes.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

Tertiary qualifications in engineering, data & AI management, data science or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

Join the change. Electrify your future!

We’ve been proudly Aussie since 1837, always finding new ways to innovate in energy and essential services. Now, we’re moving towards a sustainable future through electrification and investing in renewable energy-and we’d like you to join us. Whether you’re on-site, in the office, or somewhere in between, you’ll find opportunities to grow your career here. You’ll work with a team that’s passionate about powering Australian lives, in a culture that values inclusivity, respect, and learning. Help us create a cleaner energy future, and we’ll back you every step of the way as you build your career.

Join the change. Electrify your future.

About the role

The Energy Assets Data & AI team are responsible for the strategic leadership and oversight of Energy Asset’s operational data, information management, AI and data governance. The role shapes and contributes to Energy Asset’s technology vision, digital strategy, and information governance framework to enable a centralised federated data model. The team are responsible for ensuring that internal and external data brought into AGL conforms to a standard naming convention and is integrated into an ‘data-fabric’ for secure and federated use. The team is responsible for providing guidance to assets operations on industry practice for data generation, tagging, storage and consumption as well as responsible for its integration with AGL’s enterprise data platforms, storage and cloud functions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the planning, acquisition, storing, organising, destroying and archiving of all generation asset data, as it aligns and integrates with all of Energy Asset’s and AGL enterprise data.
• Delivery and governance of the Energy Assets data & AI strategy and the maintenance of asset data in alignment with AGL IT data and governance standards, including: implementing of strategies for data storage, archival, destruction and retrieval; execute data integration and migration projects; create and document data processes and data-related guidelines.
• Establish broad networks to drive informed, comprehensive and effective organisational/domain improvements in data management and support data across the data lifecycle.
• Influence, shape and comply with regulations, policies and guidelines that are integral to good data management practices.
• Collaborate with other data & AI professionals, AGL Enterprise Data & AI Governance leaders, other business stakeholders, and IT specialists to drive system and process changes that enable the organisation to realise strategic goals or deliver significant operational outcomes.
• Lead enterprise wide analysis and review of technology, systems and processes to achieve strategic priorities in data management.
• Coach and train other data managers, data producers and consumers, and contribute at whole of business level to developing Data & AI Management capability.
• Optimise processes, facilitate consistency across business areas, champion data quality and resolve complex data issues.
• Ensure reliable data is accessible and aligns with established guidelines and can be used in scalable and repeatable processes.
• Increase the visibility and interrogability of an Energy Asset’s operational data assets, optimise the use of data & AI within the bounds of AGL’s enterprise data policy and standard.
• Coordinate with all site and Asset Services Master Data stewards to ensure total data management is aligned with local sub-system data management such as SAP, etc.
• Effective delivery and communication for all change notifications, upgrades and fault rectification within Integrated Energy Operations’ data ecosystem.

What You’ll Bring

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, data & AI management, data science or equivalent.
• 10 years’ experience in an operations environment (eg power generation, oil and gas, mining) preferred, with a demonstrated ability in data management, governance and leadership desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to influence key stakeholders,