Senior Data Product Owner

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SENIOR DATA PRODUCT OWNER - DATA AND ANALYTICS - SYDNEY
At Allianz, we're proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.

Let's care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

About The Role

• Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more key data products, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise data strategy.
• Partner with business and technical teams to understand needs and ensure alignment.
• Develop and maintain the data product roadmap and prioritise the backlog based on value and feasibility.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of data product across data product lifecycle, make sure data products are fit-for-purpose, governed data products that are reusable, discoverable, and trusted
• Lead a cross functional team using agile methodologies, ensuring transparency and timely delivery.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and architects to design, build, and deliver fit-for-purpose, governed data products that are reusable, discoverable, and trusted.
• Champion data quality, metadata, lineage, and interoperability, ensuring each product meets agreed standards and compliance requirements.
• Partner with business domain stakeholders, analytics team, AI and Data Science team to drive adoption and measurable value from data products.
• Coach and mentor other product owners and team members to strengthen product thinking and delivery discipline within the Data Product Team.

About You

• 10+ years' experience in data and analytics, including at least 5 years in data product ownership or product management.
• Proven track record in defining and delivering data products, such as Customer 360, within complex, enterprise-scale environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills across business and technical teams.
• Solid understanding of data architecture and engineering concepts, including Data Mesh/Data Fabric, Medallion Data Architecture, Spark ETL, streaming/near real-time ingestion, and API-based data consumption.
• Strong knowledge of modern data platforms and tools, including Databricks, Azure, Power BI, SQL, and Python.
• Good understanding of AI, Generative AI, agentic systems, MLOps to support the data needs for AI application development
• Extensive experience in Agile delivery, leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, impactful data solutions.
• Collaborative, outcome-oriented mindset with a passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Insurance domain experience is highly desirable.
• A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Benefits And Perks

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day
• Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible and remote work options and workplace adjustments, with support for your work/life balance.
• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer
• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

About Allianz Group
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Adjustments and support
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Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.