Senior Data Platform Liaison & Governance Lead

AIA Hong Kong and Macau; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Australia is seeking a Senior Technical Data Owner to coordinate between Data Office leadership and project technology teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and escalation of data-related risks.

The candidate will have strong technical fluency in data platforms, with 5+ years in Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, and Power BI, and will guide governance and onboarding across projects within the Data Office framework.

Qualifications

• Experience in a data/tech/project coordination role within an enterprise environment, with strong technical fluency in data platforms.
• Experience coordinating across project and engineering teams in a liaison, coordination, or business analysis capacity.
• Excellent organizational skills to track multiple workstreams and keep information flowing between parties.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical details between project teams and Data Office leadership.
• 5+ years of Azure Databricks experience with lakehouse, medallion architecture, and integration patterns.
• Experience with data cataloguing frameworks, lineage, and access control concepts.
• Experience with CDC tools and how analytics engineering teams deliver data products.
• Experience delivering semantic models in Power BI and associated reporting patterns.

Responsibilities

• Act as the day-to-day liaison between Data Office engineering leadership and project technical streams across the technology portfolio.
• Facilitate clear, timely communication of requirements, decisions, and constraints in both directions.
• Coordinate flow of requirements, questions, decisions, and information between projects and Data Office Leadership.
• Monitor adherence to Data Office requirements, standards, and delivery expectations, escalating gaps.
• Guide project teams on Data Office processes and governance engagement, platform access, and ways of working.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and escalate regulatory/compliance concerns through proper channels.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Power BI

Unity Catalogue

CDC tools

Data cataloguing

Stakeholder communication

Project coordination

Tools

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Power BI

Unity Catalogue

CDC tools

Job description

AIA Australia is seeking a Senior Technical Data Owner to coordinate between Data Office leadership and project technology teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and escalation of data-related risks.

The candidate will have strong technical fluency in data platforms, with 5+ years in Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, and Power BI, and will guide governance and onboarding across projects within the Data Office framework.