Join an award-winning ASX-listed organisation shaping the future of global transport.

Play a key role in building trusted, high-quality data across Kelsian.

Kelsian Group Limited is looking for an experienced Data Governance Specialist to help elevate the quality, security, and reliability of Kelsian's enterprise data. This is an exciting opportunity for a governance-minded data professional who enjoys building frameworks, improving data quality, influencing stakeholders, and embedding good data practices across a complex organisation.

About the Role

In this role you will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining Kelsian's data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and management policies. You will work closely with IT, business users and data stewards to uplift data capability, improve data quality, and ensure that our data is accurate, secure, compliant and trusted.

You will also contribute to the delivery of our Data Strategy, facilitate the Data Governance Council, and play a key role in supporting regulatory, privacy and cyber-security obligations across the organisation.

What You Will Be Doing

Strategy & Frameworks

• Contribute to the design and implementation of Kelsian's Group Data Governance Framework.
• Maintain a Data Governance Roadmap focused on quality, policy adoption and stewardship.
• Ensure governance aligns to regulatory, privacy, and cyber-security frameworks.

Data Governance & Systems

• Develop and embed governance policies, standards and processes.
• Build and maintain data glossaries, data lineage and catalogue assets.
• Configure and enhance governance and data quality tools.
• Ensure governance is applied across the full data lifecycle.

Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Define and monitor data quality metrics, profiling and remediation requirements.
• Drive uplift in data governance capability across the business.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of Data & Analytics team processes.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate the Data Governance Council and support data trustees, stewards and custodians.
• Translate governance requirements into clear, actionable deliverables.
• Act as a trusted advisor on governance, privacy, quality and best practice.

Risk, Compliance & Reporting

• Ensure compliance with data protection legislation and internal security policies.
• Support internal and external audits relating to governance, security and privacy.
• Report on governance KPIs, risks and audit outcomes.

About You

You will bring a combination of technical capability, governance expertise, and strong stakeholder engagement skills. You enjoy solving problems, influencing across diverse teams, and helping business units build trusted, high-quality data assets. You will also require:

• Strong knowledge of data governance methodologies (e.g., DAMA- DMBOK).
• Understanding of data privacy, classification, and security principles.
• Skills in data quality profiling, analysis and remediation.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in SQL or similar data programming languages.
• Experience with governance tools such as Collibra or Informatica (Highly valued).
• Certifications such as CDMP or DCAM (desirable).
• Familiarity with modern cloud data and analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Power BI) and integration technologies.
• Tertiary degree in information management, governance, analytics or related field.

Why Join Kelsian?

• Work for a purpose-driven, global transport leader.
• Help shape the foundations of enterprise data for an ASX-listed organisation.
• Be part of a highly engaged Data & Analytics team committed to uplift and innovation.
• Opportunities for professional growth, certification support and development.
• Access to employee benefits and programs across the Group.

If you are passionate about improving data quality, embedding governance and enabling data driven decision-making, we would love to hear from you

Apply now and help build a trusted data ecosystem at Kelsian!

How to Apply

We are requesting your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the best person for this position.

Click APPLY and fill in as much information as you can in the track record section of the application, paying close attention to each question.

Applicants must have the appropriate work visa and must not have any restrictions to their entitlement to work.

Applications close Friday 19th December 2025

Please note: We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this opportunity, as we are managing the recruitment process directly.

About Kelsian Group Limited

Kelsian Group Limited is an ASX-listed land and marine, tourism and public transport service provider with over 12,500 employees across Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As we continue our rapid growth and transformation journey, technology remains pivotal to our success. We are committed to innovation, operational excellence, and delivering safe, sustainable transport solutions to the communities we serve.