APS6, Product Owner

Location:
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney
Employment status:
Non-ongoing, Ongoing
Hours:
Full-time
APS classification:
APS Level 6
Applications close:
AEST

About the Role

The Personal Properties Securities (PPS) team sits within the Regulatory Service division responsible for end-to-end service delivery across personal insolvency and personal property securities services. The PPS team oversees the operation of the Personal Properties Securities Register (PPSR), ensuring it remains reliable and accessible for registering and searching security interests in personal property. The team regulates user behavior to ensure the system is being used effectively for its intended purpose and in compliance with the Personal Properties Securities Act (PPSA).

Working within the PPS team, as Product Owner, you will serve as the voice of the client, ensuring the PPSR Application team delivers value and that the backlog is aligned with AFSA’s strategic objectives as well as client and stakeholders needs. You will drive effective use of the PPSR through delivery of system enhancements while supporting vulnerable clients and preventing misuse. Reporting to the Assistant Director Product Management, you are responsible for supporting the development of road map objectives for the PPSR Application, prioritising the PPSR product backlog and sprint planning, test and release management in an agile product development environment.

Whilst managing a small multidisciplinary team, you will establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across different business areas to drive successful, client-centric solutions and proactively deliver continuous improvement to the PPSR.

Key accountabilities

  • Works closely with the Product Manager, internal and external stakeholders to gather inputs for the product features in the Product Backlog.
  • Responsible for creating and managing the Product Backlog, prioritising items within the Product Backlog to best achieve stakeholder and business requirements.
  • Bring insights from user research and other relevant data and reporting into the prioritization and sprint planning process.
  • Defines the Acceptance Criteria for each of the Product Backlog items. Ensures the Acceptance Criteria are met by executing Acceptance Testing.
  • Works closely collaborating with the Development Team and Scrum Master in sprint planning as well as monitoring the sprint progress.
  • Act as an escalation point for the development team for queries about product back log tasks during the sprint.
  • Communicate to internal and external stakeholders on the progress of the sprint and new features developed and deployed.
  • Identify and mitigate delivery, implementation risks as well as strategies to manage planned and unplanned system outages.
  • Proactively update documentation when required for features and processes.
  • Respond in a positive and flexible manner to change and uncertainty and encourage cooperation in coping with change.

Qualifications and experience

The following will be highly regarded:

  • Experience and/or qualifications related to technology, enterprise application development and Agile (Scaled Agile Framework, Product Owner certification such as PPSO or CSPO.
  • Understanding of personal property securities concepts, or ability to quickly acquire DTA principles.

All duties will be performed in accordance with:  

  • the APS Values, Code of Conduct and Employment Principles 
  • WHS obligations, taking responsibility for own health and safety and that of others 
  • AFSA’s risk management framework and relevant legislation, including guiding others to identify and mitigate foreseeable risks.

Why AFSA?

You will enjoy excellent conditions including:

  • Generous superannuation (15.4%)
  • A modern work environment
  • Access to Employee Assistance Provider
  • Flexibility to balance work and personal life (including working from home arrangements and flexible start and finish times where applicable).

We are a workplace committed to providing an environment that values diversity and supports staff to reach their full potential. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability. At AFSA we encourage every employee balance their family commitments and personal interests with flexible working options.

Eligibility

Please note that this opportunity is open only to Australian Citizens. The successful applicant must have or be willing to undergo a security clearance to the level of Baseline as a condition of employment. To satisfy character requirements all AFSA employees must undergo a police records check.

Where a person has received a redundancy benefit from APS agency employment and their corresponding redundancy benefit period has not expired, they may be ineligible for employment. We encourage applications from peoples from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability.

RecruitAbility applies to this vacancy. Under the RecruitAbility scheme you will be invited to participate in further assessment activity for the vacancy if you choose to apply under the scheme; declare you have a disability; and meet the minimum requirements for the job.

For more information visit: https://www.apsc.gov.au/recruitability.

How to apply

Applications close Friday 17th October 2025 at 11:59 PM AEDT.

To apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button. You’ll be relocated to our application portal which also provides step-by-step instructions to guide you through the application process.

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