Responsible for delivering standard reports on periodic basis as required by the business for operations, regulatory, statutory purpose
The Opportunity:
The Senior Technical Data Owner is a permanent role within AIA Australia's Data Products & AI pillar, serving as the primary coordination point between Data Office Senior Management and project technology teams.
The role ensures effective communication, alignment, and information flow across stakeholders, helping to identify and elevate risks, issues, decisions, and requirements to the appropriate accountable owners.
While requiring strong technical knowledge of AIA's data platform, the position does not hold design authority, approval responsibilities, or accountability for project delivery outcomes.
Key objectives include:
Act as the day-to-day liaison between Data Office engineering leadership and project technical streams across AIA's technology project portfolio.
Facilitate clear, timely communication of requirements, decisions, and constraints in both directions.
Track and coordinate technical dependencies, risks, and issues relating to data, escalating to the appropriate Senior Manager or Head for resolution.
Support technical streams in understanding Data Office standards, processes, and delivery.
Maintain visibility and reporting on data-related project activity for Data Office leadership team.
The successful candidate would be responsible for:
Act as the primary liaison between project technical teams and the Data Office, ensuring effective communication and alignment with Senior Managers and delivery teams.
Participate in project forums, working groups, and technical discussions to maintain visibility of progress, decisions, dependencies, and emerging data-related issues.
Coordinate the flow of requirements, questions, decisions, and information between projects and Data Office Leadership team , ensuring actions are tracked and followed through.
Monitor adherence to Data Office requirements, standards, and delivery expectations, escalating gaps, risks, blockers, or misalignments to the appropriate accountable leaders.
Support issue resolution by connecting the right stakeholders, facilitating discussions, and ensuring timely escalation without holding design or sign-off authority.




Guide project teams on Data Office processes, governance engagement, platform access, and ways of working, supporting effective onboarding and collaboration.
Build strong stakeholder relationships while promoting awareness of regulatory, privacy, and data governance obligations, escalating compliance concerns through established channels.
To be successful in this position, you will:
Demonstrate experience in a data, technology, or project coordination role within an enterprise workplace, with strong technical fluency in data platforms.
Have experience working across project and engineering teams in a liaison, coordination, or business analysis capacity.
Possess strong organisational skills, with the ability to track multiple concurrent workstreams and keep information flowing accurately between parties.
Have excellent communication skills, be able to translate technical details between project teams and Data Office engineering leadership.
Strong technical skills with 5+ years of experience in Azure Databricks: working knowledge of the platform, lake house, medallion architecture, and common project integration patterns — sufficient to follow and translate technical conversations.
Have experience in: Unity Catalogue: experience with data cataloguing framework, lineage, and access control concepts.
Click: experience with CDC tools and how Analytics Engineering teams deliver data products.
Power BI: experience delivering semantic models and reporting patterns, sufficient to relay reporting-related requirements accurately.
Delta Lake: Strong experience with Delta Lake, including solution design, implementation, and the ability to provide expert guidance on Delta Lake concepts and best practices throughout project delivery.
Why choose AIA:
At AIA, we've made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives.
And it starts with our own people




AIA Australia is part of the larger regional Asia AIA Group, which is the largest public listed life insurance company in the Asia-Pacific region
Access our training and development to build on your current skills
Career development through internal mobility opportunities
Work for a business helping millions of Australians and make a difference to someone's life everyday
Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself
Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you
Work with supportive and inclusive working environment
Flexible working arrangement
At AIA Australia, we're proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians.
Through life and health insurance, financial wellbeing and our total wellbeing ecosystem that includes AIA Vitality – the world's leading science-backed wellbeing program – we've started a movement to make Australia the healthiest, best protected nation in the world.
As part of the AIA Group - the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group with a presence in 18 markets in Asia-Pacific – it is our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by ****.
Lots of companies like to say they're different.
What makes us truly different at AIA, is the difference we make in people's lives.
AIA is different.
At AIA we've started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.
It's about finding new ways to not only better people's lives, but to better the communities and environments we live in.
As the largest listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, we've been proudly making a difference for people and communities across Asia for over a century.
And we build on this every day with our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by ****.
If you work at AIA, you play an important part in this movement.
Which is why we give you every opportunity to learn, grow and shape your career - your way.
Inspiring and supporting you to thrive - not just at work, but in life.
Believe in better with AIA.
View our AIA LinkedIn page Bring your difference to AIA
#J-*****-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Technical Data Owner (New South Wales)
🏢 Aia Hong Kong And Macau
📍 New South Wales