About Us
Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.
We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.
Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.
About the Job
This role is accountable for the overall Investments data product vision and roadmap ensuring this not only delivers business needs, supports the execution of the Investments strategy, and ensures the platform is scalable and resilient.
Accountable for defining and developing the product roadmap to deliver on Investments team user needs for data, analytics and reporting. Will define the vision and lead the experience for their product; driving to lead the market and ensuring a process of ongoing iterative improvement in line with the wider Investments strategy.
The role is embedded, and will work day-to-day, within the cross-functional Investments Services and Transformation enablement function.
Vision, roadmap, and priorities is set by a product owner in consultation with the Investments Business and head of Investment Services and Transformation and the Investments Data Governance & BAU lead.
The team will contain the skills required to deliver working solutions to end-users (including, but not limited to, analysts, quality assurance, scrum master, etc).
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
- Accountable to create and maintain the Investment data strategy, leading a team of BA’s, analysts, and BI specialists.
- Drive the product roadmap of the investments data ecosystem to deliver data driven analysis, reporting, and insights
- Accountable as the Data Product Owner for Investment Transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment of program deliverables to broader data roadmap and capability uplift targets.
- Acts as a conduit between Investment Change Portfolio Delivery & wider Investment Team.
- Manage and develop the product roadmap for relevant products to deliver on business and user needs including working closely with the project team members to align with both the organizational vision and strategy as well as the enterprise data & analytics strategy.
- Extensive product research to evaluate competitor activity, strategies, and emerging market trends locally and globally.
- Ensure that product roadmap decisions are based on a ‘test and learn’ approach where feedback from stakeholders is incorporated into future product development cycles.
- Ensure product vision is clear, documented, and communicated including collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and responsible for driving buy-in with senior executive team for product roadmap / vision.
- In collaboration with business analyst, define, identify, and document detailed business requirements and functional content features needed to meet requirements.
- Collaborate closely with development team(s) to ensure that solutions delivered are resilient, scalable, and performant. Ensure that data technical debt is managed effectively and that all aspects of the product development process are running smoothly.
- Provide thought leadership on the implementation of Data solutions to ensure the right balance between speed-to-value and sustainable, scalable solutions.
- Work closely with the stable team to ensure they understand the “what” and the “why” in backlog and story prioritization. Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
- Own and direct the design of the Investment data architecture, collaborating with the architecture team to continuously plan the ongoing target state and scope of the Investment Reporting and Analytics platform.
- Active participation in Product Community of practice to support incremental maturity of organization's product team capability.
- Lead business engagement, driving change and aligning Data with enterprise needs through a strong ability to build, establish, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Manage demand and engagement processes, data sourcing and continuous product delivery.
