Technical Product Owner - Digital and Data Products

Qantas Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Qantas Group is seeking a Technical Product Owner for Digital and Data Products based at our Mascot head office. You will lead a portfolio including workforce mobility, maintenance optimisation, and data platforms to deliver secure, scalable solutions for Engineering.

You will partner with Engineering leaders, technology specialists and external partners to realise measurable operational value, ensuring data foundations support analytics, optimisation and future AI use cases.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technology products from discovery to production services.
• Strong vendor management experience with partners and enterprise vendors.
• Experience developing data platforms supporting analytics and insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead emerging products from discovery through to secure, scalable production services.
• Collaborate with Engineering, data and frontline teams to deliver measurable value.
• Embed safety, cyber security, privacy and regulatory governance throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Product ownership

Vendor management

Data platforms

AI/ML readiness

Security & compliance

Stakeholder leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

IT/Engineering/Data degree or equivalent

Tools

Industrial data platforms

IT governance tools

Job description

Technical Product Owner - Digital and Data Products

• Full-time
• Business Function: Information Technology
• Parent Business Function: Digital, IT & Analytics
• Time Type: Full time
• Worker Sub-Type: Permanent

• Join our Group Technology team and transform how Qantas Engineering works through technology and data
• Lead emerging products from discovery and proof of value through to secure, scalable production services
• Permanent opportunity based at our Head Office in Mascot

At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our strength comes from our people, their different experiences and perspectives, and a shared commitment to safety, performance and delivering for our customers.

Technology plays a critical role in helping us operate safely, efficiently and reliably. As the Technical Product Owner, Engineering Digital and Data Products, you will lead a portfolio of existing, emerging and data-driven products supporting Qantas Engineering. This includes workforce mobility, maintenance optimisation, the Engineering data platform and related digital solutions.

Working closely with Engineering leaders, frontline teams, technology specialists and external partners, you will identify where technology can improve aircraft availability, maintenance productivity, safety and cost. You will help take opportunities from discovery and proof of value through to scaled, supportable production services.

This is an opportunity to deliver practical innovation with measurable operational impact. You will build the trusted data foundations needed for analytics, optimisation and future AI and machine-learning use cases, while ensuring products are secure, resilient and integrated effectively with the wider maintenance technology landscape.

What you’ll bring to the role

You are an experienced technology product leader who can turn emerging ideas into secure, scalable products that deliver measurable operational value. You will bring:

• Extensive experience in technology product ownership or product management including manufacturer supplied and in house developed products
• Demonstrated success taking products from discovery and proof of concept through to supported production services, with evidence of measurable business or operational outcomes.
• Proven vendor-management experience across specialist partners, aircraft manufacturers or enterprise vendors.
• Experience developing data platforms or data products that support reporting, analytics, optimisation and future AI or machine-learning use cases.
• Exposure to operational technologies such as mobile devices, IoT, RFID, predictive maintenance or optimisation, ideally within aviation, rail, defence, manufacturing or utilities.
• Strong capability in business-case development, benefits realisation, budget management and total-cost-of-ownership governance.
• The ability to embed safety, cyber security, privacy, regulatory compliance, data governance and operational resilience throughout the product lifecycle.
• Strong stakeholder, change and people leadership skills, with the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and drive frontline adoption.
• A degree in information technology, engineering, data or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in aviation maintenance or maintenance, repair and overhaul environments will be highly regarded. Familiarity with aircraft health-monitoring data, maintenance and engineering systems and optimisation would also be advantageous.

Why Qantas?

If you’re successful in your application, you’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.

We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.

We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.

We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Applications close by 28th October