They are building an enablement-led Data, Insights & AI function that will provide trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability and self-service enablement across the business.
This role will own the engineering platform that underpins every downstream analytics, reporting and AI capability.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll remain close to the platform, designing pipelines, reviewing code, improving reliability and solving production issues while setting the standards, operating rhythm and engineering discipline that allow a small but growing team to scale safely.

Required Skills:

• Significant hands-on experience operating production data platforms, ideally including Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, or equivalent cloud-native data platforms such as Azure Synapse, Snowflake or AWS data services
• Strong experience across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, deployment and operational support of enterprise data platforms
• Proven experience designing and scaling medallion-style data architectures across bronze, silver and gold layers, or equivalent layered data modelling patterns
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Comfortable working with CI/CD, GitHub or Azure DevOps, version control and modern engineering workflows
• Experience setting engineering standards across ingestion, transformation, testing, observability, deployment and code review
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, including SLAs, incident response, runbooks, monitoring and post-incident improvement
• Experience leading small but growing technical teams with a coaching-led, hands-on leadership style
• Ability to review technical designs, challenge trade-offs and act as the technical authority for the data platform
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Commercial awareness around platform cost, cloud usage, workload right-sizing and cost transparency

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience working in financial services or another regulated environment
• Exposure to FinOps practices for cloud data platforms, particularly Azure or Databricks
• Familiarity with AI/ML production platform patterns such as MLflow, model registry or feature stores
• Experience with data product thinking, data contracts and certified datasets
• Experience working closely with analytics, governance, architecture, information security and risk teams
• Databricks, Azure, data engineering or cloud certifications

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a critical data platform where your technical leadership will have genuine visibility and impact.

You’ll suit this role if you are a builder at heart: someone who enjoys hands-on platform craft, develops engineers through the way work is done, and knows how to create standards that are practical, adopted and useful.

For a confidential chat, apply with an updated CV to JP Browne.

We are seeking experienced Project Controls Specialists/ Infrastructure Planner to support the development of a new integrated planning capability within a major national infrastructure environment.

This is a high-impact role working across maintenance, capital works, and network operations, helping create a single coordinated view of outages, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery risks across a complex infrastructure portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate outages and network work across multiple programmes
• Identify and manage dependencies, constraints, sequencing conflicts, and risks
• Optimise scheduling, access windows, and delivery timing across teams
• Support integrated planning across maintenance, capital works, and customer connections
• Facilitate planning and governance discussions with stakeholders
• Provide insights, reporting, and recommendations to improve delivery decisions
• Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes and data quality

About You

We are looking for experienced planners who have operated in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, ideally across:

• Infrastructure, utilities, transport, energy, rail, telecoms, or similar sectors
• PMO, project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles
• Environments requiring coordination across multiple delivery teams and programmes
• Experience with Primavera P6 is an advantage

You will bring:

• Strong planning, sequencing, and outage coordination capability
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to operate across governance and delivery environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confidence influencing without direct authority

Note:Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Senior Solution Architect

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to play a key role in a large, complex transformation programme. This position will lead strategic architecture activities within a major discovery and planning work stream focused on modernising critical enterprise platforms and enabling long-term business transformation.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future-state architecture of a large-scale organisation undertaking a multi-year modernisation journey. Working alongside senior business and technology leaders, you will provide strategic architectural direction, define transition states, establish governance frameworks, and ensure alignment between business objectives and technology delivery.

About the role:

You will be joining a well-established transformation programme that is focused on replacing legacy core systems with modern, cloud-based platforms. The focus now is centred on strategic architecture, planning, governance, and guiding the organisation through future-state transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic architecture activities across major transformation initiatives

• Define target-state and transition-state architectures that support long-term business objectives

• Develop architecture road-maps and strategic plans to guide programme delivery

• Establish and maintain architectural governance and decision-making frameworks

• Provide architectural leadership across complex, evolving environments

• Partner with senior stakeholders across business and technology teams

• Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, risk, performance, and operational requirements

• Drive alignment between enterprise strategy, architecture, and programme delivery

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes

• Previous experience working within Financial Services, Banking, or Insurance environments.

• Strong background in architecture strategy, road-map development, and governance

• Experience defining future-state and transition-state architectures

• Ability to operate effectively in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

• Strong understanding of integration architecture, data architecture, and cloud platforms

• Experience incorporating security, compliance, and operational considerations into architectural decisions

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills

Highly Desirable

• Experience working on core banking, core ledger, or large-scale platform modernisation programmes

• Experience within enterprise-level transformation initiatives involving legacy system replacement

• Exposure to modern cloud-based architecture environments

This role would suit an architect who enjoys working at a strategic level, influencing enterprise direction, and helping organisations navigate complex transformation journeys while balancing business outcomes, technology objectives, and delivery realities.

If this sounds like you Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion to learn more about the opportunity: email Amber at amber.shaw@talentinternational.com

We are partnering with a highly respected global technology services organisation to secure several Azure Cloud Operations Engineers for a large-scale enterprise cloud environment based in Auckland.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing cloud platform team supporting complex Azure environments, cloud transformation initiatives, and ongoing migration activities within a large enterprise setting.

We’re looking for engineers who enjoy getting hands-on, solving problems, automating repetitive tasks, and supporting production cloud platforms. This is not an architecture-only role, we’re seeking practical engineers who can quickly become productive and contribute from day one.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting and maintaining enterprise Azure environments
• Assisting with cloud migration and modernisation initiatives
• Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions
• Troubleshooting production issues and supporting operational activities
• Contributing to platform reliability, performance and security
• Working closely with internal engineering teams and stakeholders
• Supporting automation, continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives
• Participating in an on-call support roster

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on Azure infrastructure experience across:
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Compute
  • Storage
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Azure DevOps experience including CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Experience supporting production cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capability
• Experience working within enterprise-scale environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Highly Desirable

• Azure migration or cloud transformation experience
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• PowerShell, Azure CLI or Python scripting
• Azure governance and landing zone experience
• Monitoring and observability tooling
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Managed services or large enterprise support environments

Personal Attributes

• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Self-sufficient and proactive
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Passionate about automation and continuous improvement
• Eager to learn and adopt modern engineering practices

What’s On Offer

• Initial 6-month contract (Highly likely to extend)
• Multiple positions available
• Auckland-based opportunity
• Hybrid working environment
• Opportunity to work on large-scale Azure transformation and cloud operations initiatives
• Exposure to modern cloud engineering practices and technologies
• Potential for extension beyond the initial contract term

Eligibility

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

If you’re an Azure Cloud Engineer, Cloud Operations Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer with strong Azure experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity please apply.

Opportunity knocks…

Join our client’s team on a 6 month fixed-term basis, with the potential to extend into a longer-term engagement. In this role, you’ll work within a complex environment to help improve data consistency, definitions, and usage across the business, so teams can trust the data they rely on, and the wider organisation can use it confidently.

Why you’re special…

• You are an experienced Business Analyst with strong data experience, or a Data Analyst with excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including experience capturing and analysing requirements.
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders to define business rules and data standards.
• You have strong analytical skills, with experience working in complex or large-scale environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?

• Join a great Auckland brand, as part of a close-knit team.
• Play a crucial role in identifying opportunities for improvement and recommendations to improve data quality and governance.
• A 6 month engagement that has potential to be extended in the longer term.

Please note we can only consider candidates in NZ with relevant working rights for this role.

If you’re excited by the challenge of improving data quality, standardising key definitions, and bridging business needs with technical delivery, apply now.

Identity Engineer – 12-Month Contract | Auckland CBD

A hands-on contract opportunity for an experienced Identity Engineer to support the modernisation of a large-scale workforce identity environment.

You’ll work closely with Application Owners, Identity Architecture, and Security to improve how identity integrates across systems during cloud migration, and to strengthen identity and access management controls, including Identity Governance.

What you’ll be doing

• Modernising workforce identity capabilities and supporting cloud integration across enterprise systems
• Implementing and improving IAM controls, including Identity Governance
• Partnering with security and architecture teams to uplift authentication, federation, and access standards
• Supporting secure access outcomes across the identity lifecycle (including privileged access and access risk)

What we’re looking for

• Strong end-to-end IAM / workforce identity experience (delivery-focused, not just advisory)
• Practical experience across:
  • Privileged access
  • Federation
  • Authentication standards
  • Access risk concepts (e.g., toxic access combinations)
• Proven ability to deliver identity solutions as part of broader enterprise platforms and programs
• Confident stakeholder engagement across technical and business teams

Environment

• Microsoft-centric workforce identity stack: Entra ID and Azure supporting ~10,000 users
• Potential opportunity to expand into customer identity over time (evolving Optimal capability supporting ~500,000 users)

If this is something you are interested in APPLY now to be considered, or reach out to Amber at amber.shaw@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Senior Project Coordinator – 12 Month Contract
Auckland | Competitive Contract Rate

Join a leading financial services client and play a key role supporting the delivery of multiple strategic projects within a complex and fast-paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Coordinator who thrives on stakeholder engagement, governance, and keeping projects on track.

What’s in it for you?

✅ 12-month contract with a leading financial services organisation
✅ Work across multiple high-profile projects with experienced delivery teams

About the role

You will work closely with Project Managers, delivery teams, and key stakeholders to coordinate project activities, maintain governance standards, manage reporting, and ensure successful project outcomes.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years’ Project/Programme Coordination experience in NZ
• Strong knowledge of project governance and delivery frameworks
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent projects
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong financial tracking and reporting capability
• Advanced experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Proactive, organised, and able to work autonomously
• Banking or Financial Services experience highly desirable

Apply now

If you’re an experienced Project Coordinator looking for your next contract opportunity within a leading organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Our client is a leader in the financial services sector, undergoing exciting technology change.

As part of this strategy, they are looking for a Data Analytics Lead who will help shape the future of their analytics capability.

They are building an enablement-led function that creates trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability, and self-service enablement across the business. You’ll own the layer that connects the data platform to real business decisions.

Required Skills:

• Leadership in analytics engineering, BI, or data insights, operating in an enablement-first model (not a centralized reporting factory)
• Hands-on experience designing and operating a semantic and metric layer, including dbt-style modelling (or equivalent)
• Strong understanding and experience running a certified-dataset programme (trusted datasets tied to decision use-cases with named owners)
• Strong Power BI expertise, including:
• modelling and performance
• governance approaches and BI standards
• defining and enforcing BI standards across teams
• Strong SQL skills, with comfort using Python for analytics tasks
• Proven experience delivering data literacy programmes and/or building a community of practice
• Stakeholder management skills, including translating business priorities into data products and pragmatically declining requests that should not sit centrally
• Coaching and advisory capability to improve adoption and confidence over time

Nice to Have Skills:

• Exposure to Azure Databricks SQL and lakehouse analytics patterns
• Experience with AI-enabled insight generation and/or AI design review

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the data analytics function, working with a highly collaborative and supportive team.
For a confidential chat, apply to JP Browne

• Proficient in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) and Intune
• Experience in application packaging and mobile device management
• Solid understanding of on-premises and online Exchange environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (M365) and Power Platforms
• Knowledge of Citrix and Horizon VDI
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities

• Experience with ITIL frameworks
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python)
• Knowledge of networking concepts and security protocols

Please note: Only candidates based in New Zealand will be considered for this opportunity

Opportunity knocks…

Join a forward-thinking team as a Digital Product Designer and have a direct impact on shaping the future of health technology! This is your chance to lead innovative design initiatives within a SaaS environment.

As a key member of this team, you’ll support discovery activities, transform ambiguous requirements into intuitive user experiences, and craft user journeys that define the next generation of the platform. Your expertise will enable the client to deliver a product that is not just functional, but transformative, leveraging AI, automation, and cutting-edge design practices to create meaningful outcomes.

What makes you special…

• 6-8 years of experience in product design, especially within SaaS environments
• Strong UX research skills, including user interviews and ethnographic research
• Proven ability to lead discovery workshops, stakeholder collaboration, and iterative design processes from concept to launch
• Expertise in wireframing, user flows, and systems thinking
• Proficiency in Figma for UI design and creating component libraries
• Excellent communicator with the ability to articulate and advocate for design decisions to diverse stakeholders
• Experience working collaboratively within cross-functional teams (product, engineering, leadership)

What’s in it for you…

• The opportunity to influence the future of healthcare technology through innovative, user-centred design
• Be part of a collaborative, fast-paced environment where your ideas matter
• Work on products that makes a real difference in the health sector
• Hybrid working setup with two in-office days
• Stay ahead of industry trends and hone your skills in AI, automation, and emerging design practices

If you’re excited to create impactful experiences and want to be part of an innovative team shaping the future of healthcare tech, this is your moment. Apply now!

Please note to be considered for this opportunity you must be living in NZ with valid work rights.

Overview

A well-established, financial services firm with an enterprise-grade operating model and strong reputation in the New Zealand market is investing heavily in business-wide transformation to support its next phase of growth.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager – Transformation Office to lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives across Technology, Operations, and Business/Product teams. This is a high-impact role responsible for driving multiple concurrent projects from discovery through to delivery and benefits realisation, with ownership of governance, budget, risk, and outcomes.

The ideal candidate will bring strong end-to-end delivery experience, confidence working with senior stakeholders, and the ability to operate across both business and technology change in a structured, delivery-focused environment.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in end-to-end project management, delivering multiple projects simultaneously, including those with budgets around $1M, specifically within a financial services environment.
• Strong planning, organizational, and analytical skills to define project scope, objectives, and success metrics.
• Proven ability to manage projects across various domains such as digital customer platforms, new product launches, and operational improvements within the financial services sector.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams and leadership.
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, PRINCE2) and practical experience in applying them.
• Financial and commercial acumen for managing project budgets and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.

Also Required:

• Familiarity with project portfolio management practices.
• Experience presenting project updates to leadership with concise and impactful insights.
• Capability to mentor junior project managers or coordinators in effective delivery approaches.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance, Technology, Project Management, or a related field.
• Professional certifications in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum Master) are highly desirable.

Other Requirements

• Flexibility to adapt to changing project scopes and organisational priorities.
• Willingness to manage external vendors and partners while overseeing vendor performance.

If you are ready to take your career to new heights and be a part of our client’s exciting journey to redefine the financial services landscape, we invite you to apply now and become a key player in their transformation!

Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Overview:

Join a fantastic technology team in the midst of some very exciting technology change!

As a key contributor to our clients growing pipeline of projects, you will collaborate to design and implement robust solutions. We’re looking for a tech-savvy innovator who not only brings technical expertise but also a sense of humour to the table.

This position offers the unique chance to work on cutting-edge technologies within a boutique financial services environment.

Required Skills:

• Proficient in API design and management
• Experience with integrations involving complex systems
• Hands-on skills in React Native for mobile app development and Angular for web app development
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively without established frameworks

Nice to Have Skills:

• Familiarity with cloud-based solutions and microservices architecture
• Experience in working with Agile methodologies
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle best practices

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture or a similar role
• Strong focus on modern platforms & digital solutions.
• Proven experience with platform integration (Azure ideally)

Other Requirements:

• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical team members
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities

You will be part of something special, in a team that’s highly collaborative and supportive. If this sounds like you, please apply to JP Browne or Amber Shaw for a confidential chat.