Product Owner & Scrum Master — Data Platform Lead, Brisbane

Task Recruitment; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Task Recruitment is seeking a professional to blend Product Owner thinking with Scrum Master expertise and Big Data experience. You will work across data platforms and analytics, coordinating across product, engineering and operations to deliver complex data-driven initiatives.

The role is on-site in Brisbane, Australia, for a 12-month contract with potential extension. You’ll collaborate with technical stakeholders, shape backlogs, and drive Agile delivery to achieve clear business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Around 5+ years' experience across Agile delivery, product ownership, software delivery, business analysis, project delivery or related technology roles.
• Strong Product Owner skills, particularly backlog management, refinement, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Strong Scrum Master skills, including facilitation, ceremonies, removing blockers and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with Big Data, data platforms, analytics or other data-intensive technology environments.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple software engineering or cross-functional technology teams.
• A good understanding of the software development lifecycle and modern software delivery.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar Agile frameworks.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira or similar delivery and backlog management tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Enough technical understanding to confidently work with engineering teams across data, platform, integration and software topics.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives and other Agile ceremonies.
• Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to translate roadmap priorities and customer needs into well-defined backlog items.
• Develop clear requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies and expected outcomes.
• Drive Agile practices and continuous improvement to improve delivery flow and predictability.
• Remove blockers and coordinate dependencies across multiple engineering and technology teams.
• Maintain visibility of commitments, progress, risks and upcoming work.
• Help teams balance new features with technical debt, defects, modernisation and operational priorities.
• Support release planning and operational readiness.
• Use delivery metrics and team feedback to continuously improve delivery outcomes.
• Keep engineering teams connected to the broader business context and customer value behind the work.

Skills

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Big Data

Data platforms

Analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

Azure DevOps

Jira

Backlog management

Facilitation

Agile frameworks

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Task Recruitment is seeking a professional to blend Product Owner thinking with Scrum Master expertise and Big Data experience. You will work across data platforms and analytics, coordinating across product, engineering and operations to deliver complex data-driven initiatives.

The role is on-site in Brisbane, Australia, for a 12-month contract with potential extension. You’ll collaborate with technical stakeholders, shape backlogs, and drive Agile delivery to achieve clear business outcomes.