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Help us deliver like never before  

We’re looking for a Data Steward Lead to join our diverse, talented and innovative digital technology team who together are helping our customers and communities build a better future. Together, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences that Australian's love and trust, while delivering a sustainable future for Australia Post, and you could be part of that.  
 

We're empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and leverages modern work practices and technologies. It's an unexpectedly dynamic and collaborative culture that feels more like a start-up than a 213-year old icon.  

What you’ll deliver with us 

The Data Steward Lead is responsible for enabling and empowering the federated data steward community to efficiently meet their responsibilities for data governance and data quality uplift, helping unlock business value from trusted data across the organisation. This role is instrumental in establishing and operating a strong, connected Data Stewardship Community of Practice, nurturing a culture of governance and accountability across the enterprise. It provides leadership, standardised practices, enabling technology, and targeted support that simplifies stewardship responsibilities and accelerates the adoption of enterprise data governance.

Acting as both a strategic advisor and service designer, the Data Steward Lead ensures that stewards across domains are equipped, confident, and capable of driving data quality and governance practices that deliver value to business teams quickly and sustainably. Process design and continuous improvement is a key aspect to this role as you will lead the development of repeatable, scalable stewardship workflows and quality management processes. This includes monitoring performance and feedback to continuously refine support offerings and steward experience.

You’ll also   

• Establish, lead, and grow an enterprise-wide Data Stewardship Community of Practice.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and peer-learning opportunities for Stewards to uplift capability and confidence.
• Design and evolve support models, toolsets, and advisory services that empower Stewards to efficiently perform their roles.
• Drive the adoption and effective use of enabling technologies (e.g. Collibra) and scalable standards.
• Operationalise self-service approaches that reduce overhead and increase steward autonomy.
• Align stewardship priorities with enterprise data strategy, business goals, and regulatory expectations.
• Define scalable service delivery and engagement models that accelerate time-to-value from trusted data.

About you  
We are seeking someone with strong communication skills who can with Data Stewards, Data Owners, IT, business units, data teams and enabling functions (e.g. Risk, Legal). Extneraly you will be working with vendors and consultants to evolve support strategies. This role requires someone to have the ability to influence business and technical stakeholders at all levels. Of course, understanding of data governance platforms, frameworks, regulatory drivers, stewardship practices, tools, and frameworks are all useful too!

You’ll also need   

We’re delivering together 

At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees. 

We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees. 

We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on inclusivecareers@auspost.com.au.