Senior Product Owner Lead — Insurance Modernisation

Advance Thinking

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Advance Thinking is seeking an experienced Product Owner Lead to join a major insurance modernisation programme with flexibility across Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne. This contract to 30 June 2027 focuses on leading end-to-end delivery and prioritising the backlog across multiple insurance product lines.

You will align business needs with technology delivery, manage stakeholders, and coordinate with analysts and offshore partners to drive value.

Qualifications

Experience delivering technology or business change across multiple teams.
Strong backlog management, prioritisation and requirements skills.
Experience with implementation partners and offshore delivery teams.
Insurance or financial services domain experience.
Guidewire experience is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Own and prioritise the backlog for shared capabilities across multiple insurance product lines.
Translate business needs into clear outcomes, requirements and delivery priorities.
Negotiate competing demands across stakeholders in finance, pricing, data and analytics, underwriting, product and distribution.
Coordinate dependencies, release opportunities and delivery constraints across teams and implementation partners.
Challenge requests to understand the underlying business need and identify effective solutions.
Work closely with Business Analysts and delivery specialists to take changes through to implementation.
Communicate priorities, decisions, risks and progress clearly to business and technology stakeholders.
Support Agile delivery and continuous improvement as the stream evolves.