Asset Data Governance Lead

Orion Group; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Three days of “My Days” leave

Wellbeing allowance

Holiday house in Hanmer

Job summary

Orion Group is undergoing a data governance transformation for asset information. The Asset Data Governance Lead will define standards, ownership and quality, enabling trustworthy data across planning, design, operations and reporting.

The role requires bridging technical detail with business needs, influencing across teams, and driving practical governance embedded in everyday work. The ideal candidate champions data quality, stewardship and scalability, with curiosity for automation and AI to

Qualifications

• Experienced in enterprise data and information governance within complex environments.
• Strong across data ownership, stewardship, quality and assurance.
• Able to bridge technical detail and business needs.
• Be pragmatic; governance embedded in work, not just in documents.
• Comfortable influencing across teams without positional authority.
• Naturally curious with an improvement orientation and interest in emerging technology.
• Excited by potential of automation and AI to simplify asset information.

Responsibilities

• Define and embed asset data standards, definitions, hierarchies and quality expectations.
• Establish clear ownership, stewardship, decision rights and accountability for asset data.
• Develop data catalogues, dictionaries, classification frameworks and lineage.
• Create meaningful data quality measures and drive improvement at the root cause.
• Govern data flows, integrations and attribute mappings across key systems.
• Build assurance that supports auditability, regulatory reporting and external disclosures.
• Help ensure data foundations are ready for analytics, automation, AI and future digital capability.

Skills

Enterprise data governance

Data ownership

Data stewardship

Data quality

Data assurance

Bridge technical and business needs

Influencing across teams

Automation & AI interest

Curiosity & improvement orientation

Job description

Orion is in the middle of a significant transformation in how asset information is captured, managed and used across the business. At the heart of that transformation is data, this newly created role has the opportunity to shape the standards, ownership and quality expectations that will make that data trusted and valuable throughout its lifecycle.

As our Asset Data Governance Lead, you'll define what good looks like and help make it stick. You'll bring clarity and consistency to how asset data is understood, owned, governed and assured, creating a strong foundation that supports everything from planning and design through to operations, reporting and investment decisions.

About us

Passionate, curious, and innovative are a few words that describe our people. We are powering the future, connecting communities, and igniting innovation. Orion owns and operates the electricity distribution network that provides power to central Canterbury. As the third largest electricity distribution network in New Zealand, we cover remote rural areas, regional towns, and the city of Christchurch.

We are an essential service and take our responsibilities seriously. We are community owned and working here means a career with meaning and purpose that makes a difference in your very own neighbourhood.

The role

This is one of those opportunities that doesn't come around often. You'll have the opportunity to shape something lasting at a time when Orion is transforming its asset information landscape.

Success means clear standards and ownership, better data quality, and information the business can genuinely trust and rely on.

• Define and embed asset data standards, definitions, hierarchies and quality expectations
• Establish clear ownership, stewardship, decision rights and accountability for asset data
• Develop data catalogues, dictionaries, classification frameworks and lineage
• Create meaningful data quality measures and drive improvement at the root cause
• Govern data flows, integrations and attribute mappings across key systems
• Build assurance that supports auditability, regulatory reporting and external disclosures
• Help ensure our data foundations are ready for analytics, automation, AI and future digital capability

About you

You'll also be someone who can move comfortably between technical specialists and the wider business. There are no direct reports here, so influence matters. You'll be able to challenge thinking, create clarity where there is ambiguity and bring people together around consistent ways of working.

We're looking for someone who brings:

• Experienced in enterprise data and information governance within complex environments
• Strong across data ownership, stewardship, quality and assurance
• Able to bridge technical detail and business needs
• Be pragmatic, you want governance embedded in the work, not sitting in a document
• Comfortable influencing across teams without relying on positional authority
• Naturally curious, with an improvement orientation and interest in emerging technology
• Excited by the potential of automation and AI to simplify and improve asset information

We offer

You'll find at Orion, you can come as you are and just be you. You will be joining a workplace that values who you are, the work you do, and the way you think. Importantly, we offer:

• Flexible working arrangements, and flexible locations with our Head office in Burnside and satellite offices in Rolleston and Ferrymead
• Three days of “My Days” leave
• A broad range of workplace benefits from a wellbeing allowance to access to our holiday house in Hanmer!

You might be surprised to find out that the company that brings the power to your home is innovative, inclusive, progressive, and quite good fun.

We encourage you to be you in your application! We are truly committed to diversity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability.

Please reach out to us with any questions at **********@oriongroup.co.nz. We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interviews. To learn more about us, check out our careers site to find out more about working Orion.

You must have the right to live and work in New Zealand to apply for this job. Pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.