Data Product Owner: Build Reusable Data Solutions

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi

Palmerston North

On-site

NZD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

42 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Five weeks annual leave

Income Protection and Critical Illness

Job summary

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi (NZTA) seeks a Data Product Owner to lead the data product journey, shifting from project-led delivery to a data product‑centric agency. You will identify opportunities, define ownership and roadmaps, and deliver trusted, reusable data products.

You will own the product vision and lifecycle, establish backlogs, collaborate with governance, architecture and platform teams to embed quality, privacy and stewardship, and help stakeholders adopt product‑centric ways

Responsibilities

Identify and prioritise initial data product opportunities with business groups, defining clear user needs, ownership, outcomes and roadmaps.
Establish and own product backlogs, balancing immediate project needs with reusable enterprise value and making practical trade-offs across risk, cost and dependencies.
Work with delivery teams to take data products from discovery through to release, demonstrating value and establishing repeatable delivery practices.
Partner with governance, architecture and platform teams to build quality, security, privacy and stewardship into data products from the outset.
Build understanding of data products across NZTA, helping stakeholders adopt product‑centric ways of working and discover, trust and reuse products.
Measure early value and adoption, use feedback to improve assigned products, and apply lessons to strengthen lifecycle management as the approach grows.