Product Owner - Data Platforms (Azure, Snowflake & Databricks)
Summary
Owns and leads the end-to-end delivery of Westpac’s Azure-based data platform, modernizing data capabilities with Python pipelines, Snowflake, Databricks, and Synapse while ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
As Product Owner – Enterprise Data Platforms, you will own and drive the roadmap, priorities and ongoing evolution of our enterprise data platform capabilities across Microsoft Azure, Snowflake and Databricks.
This is a highly technical Product Owner role, where you’ll combine strong product and delivery ownership with deep data platform knowledge. You’ll work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams to translate business and technology requirements into platform capabilities, technical roadmaps and prioritised delivery outcomes.
You’ll lead priorities across cloud-native data engineering, ETL/ELT frameworks, data products, platform reliability, governance, security and large-scale data migrations. You’ll also coordinate engineering capacity, manage delivery risks and dependencies, oversee vendors and platform costs, and lead Proof of Concepts to evaluate new capabilities and provide recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Critically, you’ll need the technical depth to confidently shape and challenge solutions across Azure, Snowflake and Databricks, while ensuring the platforms remain scalable, secure, reliable and aligned to enterprise standards.
What do I need?Deep technical knowledge across Azure, Snowflake AND Databricks is essential. Candidates must have demonstrated experience across all three platforms.
- Extensive experience owning, delivering or evolving enterprise Azure data platforms.
- Strong hands-on and/or architectural experience with Snowflake.
- Strong hands-on and/or architectural experience with Databricks.
- Strong Azure capability across technologies such as ADLS, Synapse, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Azure Machine Learning, Purview, networking/Private Link Services, Application Gateway and SQL engines.
- Strong understanding of Python-based data engineering, ETL/ELT frameworks, data ingestion, transformation and pipeline automation.
- Experience shaping and managing technical product/platform roadmaps, priorities and capability delivery.
- Proven experience with complex data migrations and legacy-to-cloud modernisation, including Hadoop environments.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise databases including Teradata, Oracle and SQL Server.
- Experience across data governance, security, lineage, quality and compliance.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, DataOps, automation, reliability and platform cost management.
- Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into clear platform capabilities and delivery priorities.
- Experience managing engineering capacity, vendors, budgets, delivery risks and dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate technical recommendations to senior audiences.
- Agile delivery experience, including 3+ years of program management experience.
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
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