Australian energy regulator to hire its first digital transformation director

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) is hoping to appoint a digital transformation director to help expand its monitoring of the gas and electricity sector by using data and growing its digital capabilities. The new digital transformation director will sit in AER’s IT and data governance branch and report to AER’s chief data strategist Hrishikesh Desai, who is responsible for implementing AER’s data strategy. According to the job posting , the successful candidate will be “responsible for the development and implementation of the AER’s digital transformation proposal and program." “The program seeks to transform AER’s ICT and data systems by investing into modern, secure and scalable digital capabilities," it states. “This will allow the AER to effectively monitor and regulate the market and perform its regulatory role effectively and efficiently.” Creating a digital transformation director is AER’s latest investment in its ICT and data strategies, which have helped enable its increased compliance actions. According to the regulator’s most recent corporate plan [pdf] , the data strategy “increases systemisation and reduces the opportunity for human error,”; one of its core aims is “improving our market surveillance capability.” “We will develop a business case (seeking funding) to improve AER’s data handling, storage […]

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