Enterprise Architect - Core Ledger - Core banking

  • New Zealand
  • Auckland
  • Permanent
  • Negotiable

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect – Core Ledger to provide strategic leadership, architectural governance, and design direction for this critical domain. You will define the target-state architecture, guide migration from legacy core platforms to modern capabilities, and ensure seamless integration across the enterprise ecosystem.

This role plays a key part in enabling safe, compliant, and value-driven transformation by working closely with business, technology, risk, and delivery teams, as well as leading and mentoring a team of solution architects.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and evolve the target-state architecture for the Core Ledger domain, including retail banking capabilities
  • Lead architecture design for the migration to a modern core banking platform, including coexistence and legacy retirement strategies
  • Shape integration between core ledger systems and enterprise domains such as customer, product, integration, and regulatory/reporting
  • Ensure alignment between domain architectures and enterprise-wide business, data, application, and technology strategies
  • Provide architectural leadership, guidance, and assurance through design reviews and governance forums
  • Identify, assess, and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and constraints, working with stakeholders to resolve them pragmatically

What You’ll Bring

  • Extensive experience as an Enterprise or Domain Architect in large, complex organisations
  • Strong understanding of banking products and core ledger systems, ideally within retail banking environments
  • Proven experience delivering large-scale platform migrations or core system transformations, including transition states
  • Deep knowledge of integration architecture, data flows, APIs, and event-driven design patterns
  • Understanding of financial, regulatory, and reporting requirements in core banking environments
  • Familiarity with modern architecture frameworks and concepts (e.g. BIAN desirable)
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across executive, technical, and delivery levels
  • Ability to operate effectively in a collaborative, team-based environment

Working Style & Culture
This role operates in a hybrid working environment with strong emphasis on collaboration, delivery impact, and enterprise-wide alignment. You’ll be part of a culture that values:

  • Creating opportunities through innovation and continuous improvement
  • Delivering what matters with pace, care, and strong risk awareness
  • Succeeding together by working across teams and challenging constructively

Integrity, accountability, respect, collaboration, and excellence underpin the way work is delivered and decisions are made.

Interested?

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Jenny Nguyen at jenny.nguyen@talentinternational.com.

Please 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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Outage and Network Planner

  • New Zealand
  • Auckland
  • Contract
  • Negotiable

We are seeking two experienced Area Grid Planners to support the establishment of a new Area Grid Planning capability within a major national transmission infrastructure environment.

These roles will help integrate and coordinate planned work across projects, maintenance, and capital programmes, ensuring safe, efficient, and well-sequenced delivery across a complex and critical network.

About the Role

You will work across:

  • Grid Delivery – project delivery and maintenance execution
  • Grid Development – future network planning and investment direction

The focus is to create a single, integrated view of outages, sequencing, dependencies, constraints, and risks across multiple portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

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

About You

You will have strong experience in outage planning, network operations, or large-scale infrastructure delivery environments.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in:

  • Electricity transmission or distribution networks
  • Rail, transport, or other complex infrastructure environments
  • Utilities such as water, gas, or telecommunications
  • Project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles

You will ideally bring:

  • Strong outage planning and sequencing capability
  • Experience managing complex dependencies across multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to work in operational and delivery-focused environments
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to influence and coordinate without direct authority
  • Exposure to governance or planning forums (advantageous)

What’s on Offer

  • 2 x key contract roles shaping a new national planning capability
  • High-impact work across a complex infrastructure network
  • Strong collaboration with engineering, delivery, and planning teams
  • Exposure to large-scale, critical infrastructure programmes
  • Flexible location options (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch)

Location

  • Wellington
  • Auckland
  • Christchurch
  • Exceptional candidates in Hamilton or Palmerston North may also be considered.

If you are an experienced Outage or Network Planner looking to step into a high-impact infrastructure planning environment, we would love to hear from you.Apply now !!!!

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.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

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Business Process Improvement Specialist/ Associate Lead

  • New Zealand
  • Auckland
  • Contract
  • Negotiable

We’re seeking a Senior Business Process Specialist/ Associate Lead with strong capability in business process improvement and operational transformation to help drive meaningful change across people, process, and technology.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in collaborative environments, enjoys solving complex operational problems, and has a structured, data-led approach to improvement. You’ll play a key role in identifying inefficiencies, analysing current-state operations, and shaping practical, high-impact solutions that improve how work gets done.

What you’ll be doing

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, initially within underwriting, to:

  • Lead business process improvement and operational transformation initiatives
  • Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to map, challenge, and redesign end-to-end processes
  • Analyse current-state operations to identify pain points, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
  • Use data and structured problem-solving techniques to develop evidence-based recommendations
  • Translate findings into clear, practical future-state process designs
  • Support the implementation of improvements across business and technology teams
  • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence
  • Produce high-quality process documentation, including process maps and workflow analysis

What we’re looking for

  • Strong experience in business process improvement / operational transformation
  • Solid Lean Six Sigma capability (Green Belt or Black Belt highly regarded)
  • Proven ability to facilitate workshops and engage senior stakeholders confidently
  • Experience in process mapping tools such as Signavio, Visio, Miro or similar
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify root causes and improvement opportunities
  • Ability to work effectively across both business and technology teams
  • Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills
  • A structured, practical approach to problem solving and delivery

Nice to have:

  • Insurance or financial services experience
  • Exposure to Agile environments
  • Experience using data insights / Power BI to support analysis

Why this role?

This is a high-impact opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, relationship-driven environment where your expertise will directly shape better ways of working across the business. You’ll be empowered to challenge the status quo, influence change, and deliver tangible operational improvements.

If this sounds like you, please apply with your updated CV or contact Jenny for a confidential chat: jenny.nguyen@talentinternational.com

Note:

  • You must be currently based in New Zealand
  • You must hold a valid NZ working visa
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

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Submit your details and attach your resume below. Hint: make sure all relevant experience is included in your CV and keep your message to the hiring team short and sweet - 2000 characters or less is perfect.