Head of Data

6 days ago

Sydney, Australia Avant Full time

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our members, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
**About the role**:
The Head of Data will be responsible for overall ownership of data strategy, the enterprise data platform, data policies, procedures and standards.
You will have responsibility for enabling the data strategy and working with the governance function around technology and information management capabilities to ensure Avant has high data quality, secure protection and effective stewardship of data. In addition, you will guarantee that information management processes and workflows are fit-for-purpose for Group Solutions, and when necessary, for other Avant business units.
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Lead and operate the Data Strategy function to achieve high quality outcomes.
- Develop the Avant Group Solutions data strategy by providing critical inputs for enterprise and information management.
- Work with Data Governance Manager to oversee the management of the data governance lifecycle including; maintaining high data quality and defining data policies and procedures.
- Oversee the management of data stewardship by collaborating with relevant business units and Group Solutions functions.
- Provide insights for setting and managing privacy standards thereby protecting privacy across Avant.
- Lead the build, management, and protection of the enterprise data platform as well as related enterprise data.
- Enhance, build or transform data capabilities to support Avant’s operating model and data usage objectives and democratise data across Avant, ensuring correct access of data for the business.
- Work across teams to support the data platform and business data owners.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Tertiary qualification in information science, business, engineering, information technology, computer or actuarial science (or a related discipline).
- Knowledge of the insurance or financial Services sector.
- Demonstrated experience in building and leading data teams.
- Demonstrated experience in developing data strategy, data management, governance and with data platforms.
- Comprehensive understanding of regulatory trends and requirements.
- Strong understanding of methods, processes and procedures relating to data management, platforms and governance

At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
For more information, please contact Sue Allen, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on 0429 404 856.

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