Manager Data Platforms

About us

Are you looking for a career with endless opportunities? There's more to us than banking.

P&N Group is amongst the largest customer-owned banking organisations in Australia, represented by P&N Bank in Western Australia and BCU Bank in New South Wales and southeast Queensland. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of our customers and their communities.

With over $9.4 billion in assets and a head office in Perth and corporate offices in Coffs Harbour and Brisbane, we service over 200,000 customers across Australia from all walks of life supported by over 600 employees in group services, retail banking, broker, and business banking roles.

We believe our culture is a real point of difference, and our values – Focus on Members, Improve & Learn and Trust & Collaborate – are fundamental to our ways of working. We offer a collaborative and inclusive workplace where our people feel a strong sense of belonging, are recognised, invested in, cared for, and are part of something bigger.

As part of our ongoing strategic customer-centric transformation, we're focussed on making it even easier to bank with us for our customers of today and the future.

About the role;

We're looking for a Manager, Data Platforms to lead the design, delivery and ongoing optimisation of our enterprise data fabric. This role is central to ensuring the Group has robust, scalable and secure data services.

You'll own the strategy and technical direction for our data platforms, lead a team of data engineers whilst partnering with technology, security and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that power better decision making across the organisation. This is a chance to play a key leadership role in our Data & AI team, shaping the Group's data platforms and helping build a truly data-driven culture. You'll work at the intersection of technology and business, influencing strategy while leading delivery.

Working as part of an inclusive and collaborative team your key responsibilities will include:

• Build and maintain resilient data pipelines that deliver trusted, fit-for-purpose data.
• Design future-proof, scalable architectures that align with governance standards.
• Own and manage cloud data platforms, ensuring performance, security and cost efficiency.
• Champion the adoption of new technologies and practices (DevOps/MLOps, automation, optimisation).
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Data Engineers.
• Collaborate with IT, Cyber Security and business leaders to continuously improve platform capability and business outcomes.
• Manage budgets and vendor relationships to maximise value and sustainability.

What will you bring?

• Deep experience in building and maintaining enterprise data platforms, preferably cloud based.
• Strong technical knowledge across contemporary data technologies (e.g. Snowflake, AWS Redshift, PowerBI).
• Proven ability to design and deliver data strategies (warehousing, ETL, lakes, cleansing) and contribute to ML/AI initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and embedding DevOps/MLOps practices.
• Strong understanding of data security and governance.
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills, with the ability to link technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in IT, data or related disciplines.

What we can offer you

There's life at work, and life outside of work – and we understand that.

P&N Group is committed to creating a satisfying and fulfilling working environment, offering employee benefits and development opportunities that reward and help you perform to your potential and expand your experience and learning.

To help you live your best life through work, we offer an extensive range of employee benefits.

• Work for a national multi-brand, customer-focused organisation
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements
• An incentive scheme for exceptional performance
• Be supported with leadership and professional development
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for the primary care giver, and three weeks for the non-primary care giver
• Generous discounts on home loans, personal loans, insurance and other banking products and services
• Up to two weeks' additional purchased leave per year
• Two days' paid volunteer leave each year to use with a community partner of your choice
• An Employee Assistance Program

At P&N Group, we want to leverage the numerous benefits and innovative gains that a diverse workforce brings, and especially the high engagement that comes from a culture built on belonging and inclusion. We encourage people of all abilities, backgrounds, identities, ages and cultures to apply.

If you need assistance or require flexibility to be able to fully participate in the application process, please email us at

What does our recruitment process look like?

The process can include a phone screen, virtual and/or face-to-face interview, psychometric testing, reference checks and all relevant background checks.

The closing date for applications is 24th October 2025