Head of Data
Application Deadline: 4 December 2025
Department: Technology
Location: Remote - Australia
Compensation: $190,000 - $200,000 / year
About Future Group
Future Group is not your traditional financial services company – we're a collective of super funds and services committed to changing our planet now for a better tomorrow. When you join us, you’ll become part of a team united by a clear and important mission: to lead the investment movement by advocating and campaigning for a future worth retiring into.
We are looking for someone to join our purpose-led high-growth scale-up in a Head of Data position. This is a newly created role and greenfield opportunity to build and shape the entire data function for a growing company. And the best bit, you’ll get to work with some fantastic work mates!
Future Group values diverse lived experience and identities, and we strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, those with caring responsibilities, from culturally and racially marginalised groups, with disabilities, who experience ageism, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those who face social exclusion due to their social class.
We recognise that the recruitment journey may present unique challenges for trans and gender diverse folk, and we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will happily make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate diverse needs, so if there is anything we can do to support you at any stage of your application, please let us know. For more information about DEIB at Future Group, please contact us at diversity@futuregroup.com.au.
About The Role
As our first Head of Data, you'll have significant autonomy to define strategy, choose technologies, and build a high-performing team. You'll be the go-to data expert, directly influencing business strategy and outcomes, and will play a pivotal role in scaling our data capabilities and mentoring the next generation of data professionals.
This role is ideal for a data visionary who thrives on shaping strategy and communication, whilst being hands-on and diving deep into technical execution.
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Lead and champion Future Group's data strategy, aligning it to business goals
- Identify high-impact data opportunities, shape roadmaps, and explore emerging technologies to deliver measurable business value through innovative, forward-thinking solutions.
- Establish and lead fit-for-purpose data governance, ensuring data quality, integrity, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance (e.g., APRA, AML/KYC) within a financial services context.
- Oversee metadata management and data lineage to ensure traceability, auditability, and ethical handling of data across the business.
- Lead the delivery of actionable insights through reporting, dashboarding, and advanced analytics (including machine learning) to drive strategic and operational decision-making.
- Define and track KPIs to clearly demonstrate the business value of data initiatives and foster a culture of data-informed performance.
- Act as a strategic partner to business units, translating their needs into actionable analytical solutions and embedding data into day-to-day decision-making.
- Guide the development of targeted insights, reporting, and self-service analytics to drive value across departments and foster a collaborative, data-informed culture.
- Build strong relationships across the business, translating complex data needs into clear solutions and influencing strategic decisions.
- Act as a key advocate for data, effectively communicating its value and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
- Oversee data tech stack selection and vendor management to ensure scalable, cost-effective solutions aligned with business strategy.
- Manage the team’s budget and stay across emerging technologies relevant to financial services.
- Provide strategic oversight of data architecture and infrastructure, ensuring solutions are scalable, performant, and future-ready.
- Support technical leadership by enabling the team and championing best practices across engineering and delivery.
- Build and develop a high-performing data team, with a strong focus on mentoring junior engineers and analysts.
- Foster a data-literate, insight-driven culture and shape the future growth of the data function.
- You find superannuation opaque and frustrating, if you had the chance to revolutionise the industry to be better for people, you would
- You love sharing your ideas and seeing what happens. At this scale-up, you're not just a small fish in a big pond. Your contributions have a direct influence on our impact and how we work
- You like to be kept on your toes - change is inevitable here. You like to tackle new challenges, and maybe even discover talents you never knew you had.
- You're excited to have impact from day one! This is a greenfield opportunity to build and shape the entire data function for a growing company. As the go-to data expert, you'll directly influence business strategy and outcomes.
- You thrive balancing big-picture strategy and leadership, with hands-on practical execution. You'll have significant autonomy to define strategy, choose technologies, and develop a high-performing team.
- You're motivated by collaboration, growth, and the chance to develop others. Joining a supportive and ambitious team, you'll play a pivotal role in scaling our data capabilities and mentoring the next generation of data professionals.
- Believes in Future Group’s mission and has a passion for moving Australia’s money out of fossil-fuels and into renewable energy
- Believes in using the power of money to build a sustainable and equitable world
- Has proven experience in data management leadership roles, with the ability to lead, mentor, and grow junior technical team members.
- Is a strategic thinker with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach, equally comfortable shaping big picture strategy or rolling up their sleeves in execution mode
- Communicates clearly and persuasively with both technical and non-technical audiences, and can confidently navigate senior stakeholder conversations.
- Has demonstrated experience in establishing and managing robust, fit-for-purpose data governance frameworks.
- Brings s a strong understanding of data security principles and compliance requirements relevant to financial services (e.g. ISO 27001, CPS 234, AML/KYC-related data requirements).
- Data architecture design and data modelling (relational, dimensional), and building scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
- Expert SQL and strong experience with Python (or similar scripting language) for data manipulation and automation.
- Demonstrable experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g. Databricks) and data lake concepts/technologies.
- Experience with cloud platforms (ideally AWS, Azure) and their associated data services.
- Familiarity with BI and data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI)
- Experience in the financial services industry
Why would you enjoy working at Future Group?
- A purpose-driven organisation - spend your days working on making this world a better place! The more we grow, the bigger the impact we are making on climate change and inequality
- A B Corp organisation that cares about how it behaves inside and out
- AFR’s Best Place to Work 2022 for the banking, superannuation and financial services sector
- Flexibility to fit work into your life (not your life around our work). School drop-offs/pick-ups and lunch-time gym sessions are a thing here
- The choice to work from home, from one of our co-working spaces, from anywhere within Australia or even from overseas (for a short period of time)
- The potential to own a piece of the Future Group pie with our unique Employee Share Ownership Program (with some fineprint)
- Fun company-wide events
- Progressive, people-focused policies and benefits including Menstrual and Menopausal Leave, Public holidays swaps, Cultural Leave, Mental Health Leave and Gender Affirmation Guidelines and Leave
- We offer employee network groups for people from diverse backgrounds: SuperGenders for cisgender women, trans men and women and non-binary folks; SuperGlobal for culturally diverse folks; and SuperPride for LGBTQIA+ folks. The groups are a safe, supportive space for people to share experiences and ideas
- An inclusive parental leave package, with 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents of all genders
- A laptop you can use to work remotely plus an allowance to make your working from home setup comfortable
- Other perks such as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), the ability to purchase leave, novated leasing arrangements for electric vehicles, and a few more to find out!