Senior Technical Data Owner

AIA Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangement

Health and wellbeing programs

Job summary

AIA Australia is seeking a Senior Technical Data Owner to coordinate between Data Office leadership and project technology teams. You will ensure clear information flow, maintain alignment on data standards, and escalate risks and issues to senior stakeholders.

In this role, you will partner with Data Office and engineering streams, track dependencies, and guide teams on data governance, platform access, and delivery practices while avoiding direct design authority.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating data projects across large enterprises.
• Solid understanding of data platforms and governance.
• Excellent communication with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the day-to-day liaison between Data Office leadership and project technical streams.
• Coordinate the flow of requirements, questions, and information between projects and Data Office Leadership.
• Track and escalate data-related risks, issues, and decisions to senior management.
• Guide project teams on Data Office processes, governance, platform access, and ways of working.
• Maintain visibility of data-related project activity for Data Office leadership.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Communication skills

Tools

Unity Catalogue

Click

Power BI

Delta Lake

Job description

Responsible for delivering standard reports on periodic basis as required by the business for operations, regulatory, statutory purpose.

The Opportunity

The Senior Technical Data Owner is a permanent role within AIA Australia's Data Products & AI pillar, serving as the primary coordination point between Data Office Senior Management and project technology teams. The role ensures effective communication, alignment, and information flow across stakeholders, helping to identify and upscale risks, issues, decisions, and requirements to the appropriate accountable owners. While requiring strong technical knowledge of AIA's data platform, the position does not hold design authority, approval responsibilities, or accountability for project delivery outcomes.

Key objectives include

• Act as the day-to-day liaison between Data Office engineering leadership and project technical streams across AIA’s technology project portfolio.
• Facilitate clear, timely communication of requirements, decisions, and constraints in both directions.
• Track and coordinate technical dependencies, risks, and issues relating to data, escalating to the appropriate Senior Manager or Head for resolution.
• Support technical streams in understanding Data Office standards, processes, and delivery.
• Maintain visibility and reporting on data-related project activity for Data Office leadership team

The successful candidate would be responsible for

• Act as the primary liaison between project technical teams and the Data Office, ensuring effective communication and alignment with Senior Managers and delivery teams.
• Participate in project forums, working groups, and technical discussions to maintain visibility of progress, decisions, dependencies, and emerging data-related issues.
• Coordinate the flow of requirements, questions, decisions, and information between projects and Data Office Leadership team, ensuring actions are tracked and followed through.
• Monitor adherence to Data Office requirements, standards, and delivery expectations, escalating gaps, risks, blockers, or misalignments to the appropriate accountable leaders.
• Support issue resolution by connecting the right stakeholders, facilitating discussions, and ensuring timely escalation without holding design or sign-off authority.
• Guide project teams on Data Office processes, governance engagement, platform access, and ways of working, supporting effective onboarding and collaboration.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships while promoting awareness of regulatory, privacy, and data governance obligations, escalating compliance concerns through established channels.

To be successful in this position, you will

• Demonstrate experience in a data, technology, or project coordination role within an enterprise environment, with strong technical fluency in data platforms.
• Have experience working across project and engineering teams in a liaison, coordination, or business analysis capacity.
• Possess strong organisational skills, with the ability to track multiple concurrent workstreams and keep information flowing accurately between parties.
• Have excellent communication skills, be able to translate technical details between project teams and Data Office engineering leadership.
• Strong technical skills with 5+ years of experience in Azure Databricks: working knowledge of the platform, lake house, medallion architecture, and common project integration patterns — sufficient to follow and translate technical conversations.
• Have experience in:
  • Unity Catalogue: experience with data cataloguing framework, lineage, and access control concepts.
  • Click: experience with CDC tools and how Analytics Engineering teams deliver data products.
  • Power BI: experience delivering semantic models and reporting patterns, sufficient to relay reporting-related requirements accurately.
  • Delta Lake: Strong experience with Delta Lake, including solution design, implementation, and the ability to provide expert guidance on Delta Lake concepts and best practices throughout project delivery.

Why choose AIA

• At AIA, we've made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people
• AIA Australia is part of the larger regional Asia AIA Group, which is the largest public listed life insurance company in the Asia-Pacific region
• Access our training and development to build on your current skills
• Career development through internal mobility opportunities
• Work for a business helping millions of Australians and make a difference to someone’s life everyday
• Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself
• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you
• Work with supportive and inclusive working environment
• Flexible working arrangement

At AIA Australia, we're proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians. Through life and health insurance, financial wellbeing and our total wellbeing ecosystem that includes AIA Vitality - the world's leading science-backed wellbeing program - we've started a movement to make Australia the healthiest, best protected nation in the world.

As part of the AIA Group - the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group with a presence in 18 markets in Asia-Pacific - it is our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030. Lots of companies like to say they're different. What makes us truly different at AIA, is the difference we make in people's lives.