Platform Product Owner

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced digital and technology leader to shape the future of the NHVR’s core platforms and drive meaningful outcomes for industry, customers, and stakeholders. As Platform Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in defining and delivering the strategic vision, roadmap, and governance of critical enterprise platforms, ensuring they remain aligned with organisational priorities, regulatory obligations, and evolving customer needs.

Working within the Platform and Change team and as part of the broader Data and Technology leadership group, you will lead platform strategy across the full lifecycle, from planning and investment through to continuous improvement and innovation. You will collaborate with senior leaders, architects, delivery teams, and external partners to maximise platform value, enable scalable and secure digital services, and foster a customer-centric, product-led culture that supports the NHVR’s transformation agenda and long-term strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities of this role are: (but not limited to)

• Provide advice on platform definition, governance, continuous improvement, reporting, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a platform vision and roadmap that aligns with organisational objectives, digital strategy, and architecture principles.
• Manage the platform backlog and prioritise enhancements, integration needs, and technical improvements to maximise business and operational value.
• Lead platform governance and lifecycle management, including planning, enhancement, and retirement of capabilities in line with compliance, cybersecurity, and architecture standards.
• Build strong stakeholder engagement across business, technology, and vendors to ensure platform capabilities meet current and future needs and teams stay aligned.
• Promote reuse, interoperability, and scalability to reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and lift platform maturity through continuous improvement and automation where appropriate.
• Define, monitor, and report on platform KPIs and performance measures to track benefits and support investment decisions.
• Support change planning and readiness by working with Change Managers to assess impacts, guide adoption, and maintain business continuity during transformation.

NHVR’s Data & Technology team are currently undertaking growth and considerable transformation, and this is an exciting time to join the organisation.

To learn more, the position description can be found on the NHVR Careers site - https://careers.nhvr.gov.au/jobs/search

About You

To be successful in this role you will possess 5 years of experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of a platform or digital product, including roadmap definition, backlog prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement in a complex business or government environment.

You will have strong understanding of enterprise digital ecosystems, integration principles, and platform governance, with the ability to translate business needs into scalable and secure technology solutions.

Your toolkit for success:

• Demonstrated capability to operate within a product-led environment, applying agile and iterative delivery practices to achieve measurable business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and negotiate effectively across technical, operational, and executive levels.
• Proven analytical and strategic thinking ability, with experience in identifying improvement opportunities, managing competing priorities, and delivering outcomes under tight timeframes.
• Experience working collaboratively with architecture, change, and delivery teams to ensure platform investments align with strategic priorities and are delivered effectively.
• Applying analytical and structured decision-making to prioritise and manage complex platform backlogs, balancing innovation opportunities, technical debt, and operational risk within agreed governance and funding parameters.
• Supporting and leading change adoption activities for platform capabilities, collaborating with change leads, trainers, and business representatives to embed new processes and realise expected benefits.
• Communicating complex information clearly and persuasively, fostering continuous improvement, and contributing to the uplift of organisational product and platform capability through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Knowledge of the Heavy Vehicle National Law would be highly regarded.

Why join us?

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) commenced operations in 2013 as the national entity responsible for regulating all vehicles in Australia over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass. The NHVR minimises the compliance burden on the heavy vehicle transport industry, reduces duplication and inconsistences across state and territory borders, and ultimately for the heavy vehicle business with government in Australia.

We are headquartered in Brisbane and employ more than 1000 people across the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

We offer-  

• A competitive salary package of $166,662.51 + Superannuation
• Monthly RDO and paid leave over Christmas closure.
• Hybrid working environment – up to 2 days from home.
• Up to15.25% superannuation through a co-contribution scheme
• Leave loading 17.5%
• Wellbeing programs – discounted fitness through Fitness Passport, Discount health insurance, flu vaccine, financial programs including discounted banking products, finance information sessions.
• Salary packaging options including novated lease.
• Discounted IT products including Microsoft and free family password security plan.
• Ongoing training and professional development support
• Professional membership

Application Process

Please apply with your CV and cover letter addressing the essential requirements of the role.

Applications close: 5.00pm 26th October 2026 (applications may close earlier than the listed closing date if suitable candidate/s are identified prior).

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the NHVR recruitment team on recruitment@nhvr.gov.au.

Successful applicants will be required to complete standard pre-employment checks including a national police and work rights check.

Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies at this time and kindly request no contact is made. Only direct applications will be considered.

We are committed to being an inclusive, diverse and flexible workplace where differences are valued. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experience and abilities.