Our client is a large values-focused Federal Government Agency seeking an experienced Senior Design Strategist to support high-complexity strategy work with strategic, political and operational significance.

This role will suit someone with strong strategy development, problem-solving and stakeholder skills who can cut through ambiguity, develop insights, and produce clear recommendations for senior leaders.

ROLE DETAILS
Location: Richmond, VIC (Hybrid, 2/3 split)
Contract: Initial term until 31 December 2026, with extension likely
Rate: $602.55 per day + Super
Eligibility: Australian Citizenship required
Role Closes: Friday 21^st August

ABOUT THE ROLE
You’ll support strategy development through analysis, insight generation and strategic communications. The role contributes to policies, priorities and operational practices, and supports highly complex and sensitive projects or work programs that shape long-term Agency direction.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Scope and structure complex Agency problems, conduct analysis, create insights and communicate findings that lead to action.
• Work with internal stakeholders to shape and improve strategic recommendations across a range of Agency issues.
• Engage with senior executives to structure problems and support decision-making.
• Lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop fact-based insights and recommendations.
• Prepare compelling written materials for senior audiences, including the Minister, Board and Executive Leadership Team.

SELECTION CRITERIA

• Experience in strategy development, ideally within a Tier 1 strategy firm or complex consulting / government environment.
• Track record contributing to strategic projects that deliver insightful and actionable recommendations.
• Strong experience working in complex cross-functional teams.
• Ability to cut through organisational complexity and ambiguity.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and emotional intelligence when working with senior leaders.
• Hands-on mindset and willingness to get into the detail where required.

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Submit your resume, or for further information please contact
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Mainframe Developer – Defence Program

Location: Melbourne (Laverton), Canberra
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Engagement: Major Defence Program
Security Requirement: Australian Citizenship mandatory. Current or reinstatable Australian Government security clearance highly regarded.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to support a significant Defence program operating within a complex, secure technology environment.

This role will suit a hands-on developer with strong mainframe application development experience, solid analytical capability, and experience supporting business-critical systems in structured, highly controlled environments.

As a Mainframe Developer, you will contribute to the development, enhancement and sustainment of key Defence applications, working across legacy technologies, batch processing environments and integrated systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance mainframe applications supporting Defence capability.
• Perform application and software development activities across the full development lifecycle.
• Support reliable batch processing and scheduled workloads within secure environments.
• Analyse technical and functional requirements and contribute to solution design.
• Troubleshoot application issues, identify root causes and implement effective fixes.
• Support code changes, defect resolution, testing and deployment activities.
• Work closely with technical leads, architects, testers and other delivery teams.
• Contribute to system integration activities across legacy and downstream platforms.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, including design, testing and as-built documentation.
• Work within established Defence change, release, configuration and security processes.
• Support transition and knowledge transfer activities into ongoing sustainment teams.

Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Strong experience in mainframe application development.
• Hands-on experience with COBOL.
• Experience working with DB2, SQL, C# or C++ highly regarded.
• Strong understanding of batch processing environments.
• Experience maintaining and enhancing complex legacy applications.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capability.
• Experience supporting integration between mainframe and other enterprise systems.
• Experience working through structured testing processes, including system and integration testing.
• Ability to work effectively in secure, highly governed project environments.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Defence, National Security or Federal Government experience highly desirable.

Security Requirements

Due to the sensitive nature of the Defence environment, candidates must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance.

Candidates who currently hold a Baseline, NV1 or higher clearance will be highly regarded.

Work Location

The role can be based in Melbourne, Canberra or Brisbane, with a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Apply Now

If you are an experienced Mainframe Developer looking to contribute to a significant Defence program, we would welcome your application.

For further information, contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com.

• 6-month initial contract with extensions
• Oversee the testing for several COTS application implementations
• Must have some experience with Python (2+ years)

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Automation Test Engineer to join a highly technical team working on a large-scale, mission-critical systems program. You’ll play a key role in managing the automation testing for multiple commercial off the shelf application implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Developing automated test scripts for end-to-end testing
• Creating and executing system-level test plans and procedures
• Troubleshooting complex technical issues
• Working across Systems Engineering, QA and Configuration Management teams
• Supporting and improving test environments and processes

Requirements:

• Python (2+ years) / PyTest
• Automation- CI/CD, DevOps, scripting
• Software and COTS integration
• Software testing – Get into the weeds of the software
• Strong Devops background – Not in software development, all in COTS

Benefits:

• Secure, 6 month rolling contract – Option to convert to permanent
• Competitive rate on offer
• Interview and start ASAP

If you would like to know more please contact Sean Mantri on 0420 425 141 / sean.mantri@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now!
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Our client is seeking an experienced Project Support Officer to provide coordination and administrative support across a large, fast-paced project delivery team. This is an initial 6-month contract based in Melbourne CBD.
This is a varied role with plenty of ownership, supporting multiple stakeholders and helping ensure day-to-day activities, documentation and reporting run smoothly.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administration support across project delivery and design teams
• Assist with data entry, document management, reporting and general project administration
• Coordinate information and documentation across the wider program
• Support Project Delivery Leads, Electrical Designers and Project Controllers as required
• Manage multiple requests and changing priorities within a fast-paced environment
• Provide structure and administrative support during a period of transition

Key Requirements

• Previous administration, project support or program support experience
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
• Proactive and reliable, with the confidence to work independently
• Strong attention to detail and accurate document/data management skills
• Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Flexible approach and willingness to support a broad range of administrative activities

Highly Regarded

• Experience within utilities, electricity, infrastructure, engineering or construction environments
• Experience supporting large project delivery or engineering teams
• Exposure to project documentation, reporting and coordination

If you would like to know more, please contact Milly Kerei-Keepa at milly.kerei-keepa@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now

Job Title

Senior Organisational Development Consultant

Job Summary / Overview

An opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Organisational Development Consultant to support the delivery of key initiatives within a People and Culture function. This three-month temporary engagement will focus on strengthening organisational capability, culture, employee experience and workforce outcomes.

The successful consultant will work independently while partnering with stakeholders to develop and deliver practical organisational development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
  * Develop and implement employee engagement and wellbeing programs
  * Lead organisational development, culture and workforce-related projects
  * Develop and implement workforce and people strategies
  * Analyse workforce and survey data to identify insights and translate findings into practical actions
  * Facilitate workshops and present information to diverse audiences
  * Partner with stakeholders to support organisational development priorities
  * Deliver workforce capability initiatives that support organisational performance and culture

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering diversity and inclusion initiatives
  * Experience developing and implementing employee engagement and wellbeing programs
  * Demonstrated experience leading organisational development, culture or workforce-related projects
  * Experience analysing workforce and survey data and translating insights into practical actions
  * Experience facilitating workshops and presenting to diverse audiences
  * Experience working independently and managing organisational development initiatives
  * WA public sector or other large complex organisation experience will be highly regarded

Skills & Competencies

• Strong stakeholder engagement and consulting skills
  * Organisational development and workforce capability expertise
  * Workshop facilitation and presentation skills
  * Workforce and survey data analysis
  * Employee engagement and wellbeing program development
  * Diversity, equity and inclusion capability
  * Culture and organisational development project delivery
  * Workforce and people strategy development

Working Conditions

Three-month temporary engagement within a People and Culture function.

Apply Now

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• 3 Month Contract – Government Agency
• Melbourne CBD Location – Hybrid Working Arrangement
• Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and SharePoint

We are seeking an experienced Power Platform Developer to design and deliver enterprise-scale case management, workflow automation and form digitisation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable applications and case management solutions using Microsoft Power Apps.
• Develop automated workflows in Power Automate that reflect business processes and operational requirements.
• Create Dataverse schemas, data models, relationships, business rules and security configurations.
• Integrate Power Platform solutions with SharePoint, shared mailboxes and external data sources.
• Deliver reporting, technical documentation and project artefacts, including effective handover to BAU support teams.

Key Skills and Experience

• At least five years of hands-on experience delivering solutions across the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Demonstrated delivery of three or more enterprise-scale solutions involving case management, workflow automation or form digitisation.
• Strong expertise in Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and SharePoint.
• Experience designing intuitive forms, structured data-capture processes, reports and business insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

What’s in it for you:

• 3 Month Contract
• Government Agency
• Melbourne CBD/ Hybrid Working Arrangement

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Sarah Jordan on sarah.jordan@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Reporting to a senior technology leader, you will take ownership of the delivery and coordination of a large-scale ERP implementation and associated business transformation activities.

It is a 3 year fixed term contract role offering $160,000 package.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing leadership across a complex, cross-functional ERP transformation program
• Managing the ERP implementation using recognised project management methodologies and best practice
• Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, governance, risk, change control and reporting frameworks
• Facilitating business process re-engineering and ensuring new processes are documented, tested and embedded
• Leading technical and business subject matter experts within a matrix environment
• Overseeing software implementation, integrations, quality assurance and testing activities

To be successful, you will bring:

• Extensive project management experience within a large, complex corporate or government environment
• Demonstrated experience leading a large-scale software replacement or ERP implementation
• Strong experience evaluating and implementing complex Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
• Proven vendor and contract management capability, including the ability to hold delivery partners accountable
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of technical and business professionals
• Strong business process improvement and transformation capability
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Anita Fonseka at anita.fonseka@talentinternational.com

Join an Innovative Research & Development Team Advancing Green Iron Technology

An exciting opportunity is available for a hands-on Laboratory Professional to join a fast-paced Research & Development environment focused on developing next-generation green iron technology. Whether you are an experienced laboratory technician, operator or scientist, this role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge equipment while contributing to innovative research projects.

If you have a strong practical mindset, enjoy working with laboratory equipment and are eager to learn new skills, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct experimental testing, analysis and measurements using custom-built testing stations and PLC-controlled rigs.
• Operate and monitor semi-automated testing systems safely and efficiently.
• Assemble, disassemble, inspect and clean fabricated components and mechanical parts throughout testing programs.
• Support qualitative and quantitative analysis of samples, raw materials and products using laboratory techniques including XRD and SEM under guidance from technical specialists.
• Prepare chemicals, reagents and materials for experimental programs.
• Follow established laboratory procedures, operating instructions and safety protocols.
• Maintain laboratory equipment, tools and workspaces to a high standard.
• Accurately record experimental results and maintain clear documentation.
• Ensure compliance with laboratory safety, health and environmental requirements.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Science, Engineering or a related discipline is preferred.
• Experience in analytical, metallurgical or research laboratories is highly regarded.
• Exposure to analytical methods and materials characterisation techniques is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to safely operate laboratory equipment and testing systems.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with experience assembling and disassembling components.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• A proactive attitude with a willingness to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment.
• Commitment to maintaining high safety and environmental standards.

What’s on Offer

• Initial 3-month contract.
• Forrestfield location.
• Opportunity to contribute to innovative green technology research.
• Hands-on role working with advanced laboratory equipment.
• Supportive team environment with opportunities to develop new technical skills.

Apply Now

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HSE & Risk Coordinator

Contract Length: Initial 12-month contract with strong extension potential

Location: Port Kembla / Illawarra Region (predominantly site-based)

Hourly Pay: Up to $100 per hour inclusive of super, dependent on experience

About the Role

We are seeking experienced HSE professionals to support a major capital project within a complex industrial environment.

This is a highly visible, site-focused role where you’ll partner with project teams and contractors to drive positive safety outcomes across a large-scale brownfield construction environment. We’re looking for proactive safety professionals who are comfortable spending time in the field, engaging with people, identifying risks early, and influencing safer ways of working.

Working alongside the Project HSE Manager and wider project leadership team, you’ll play a key role in embedding best-practice health, safety and risk management throughout all phases of project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Project HSE Manager and project teams to embed best-practice HSE and risk management across a major capital project
• Maintain a strong on-site presence, engaging directly with project teams, contractors and frontline personnel
• Identify hazards, unsafe behaviours and emerging risks before incidents occur
• Conduct site inspections, audits, risk assessments and contractor engagement activities
• Lead and support site inductions, toolbox talks, investigations and corrective actions
• Coach and influence contractors and project personnel to achieve positive safety outcomes
• Assist with incident investigations, injury management and return-to-work processes
• Maintain project HSE systems, standards, emergency management documentation and risk registers
• Support project reporting, governance and compliance requirements
• Contribute to the development of a strong, proactive safety culture across multiple project teams

About You

To be successful, you’ll bring:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a dedicated HSE, Safety Advisor, Safety Partner or similar role
• Experience working within construction, heavy industrial, manufacturing, mining or major capital project environments
• Strong understanding of risk management principles and construction/project safety requirements
• Proven ability to influence, coach and build credibility with contractors and operational teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A practical, hands-on approach to safety leadership
• Relevant qualifications in Workplace Health & Safety, Risk Management or a related discipline

Highly Regarded Experience

• Brownfield project experience
• Heavy industrial or manufacturing environments
• Major shutdown, maintenance or capital project experience
• Contractor management and high-risk work environments
• Large-scale construction or infrastructure projects

Hours & Flexibility

• Standard Monday to Friday working week
• Typically 40-58 hours per week depending on project requirements
• Occasional weekend work may be required during critical project phases
• Flexibility around working hours is essential, with some periods requiring early starts, later finishes, or extended days to support project delivery

What’s on Offer?

• Opportunity to join a significant major capital project in the Illawarra region
• Long-term project pipeline with strong extension potential
• Hands-on role with genuine influence over site safety outcomes
• Collaborative team environment with strong leadership support
• Exposure to complex construction and industrial project activities
• Potential opportunities to transition into future projects for strong performers

Apply Now

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Change Manager – Major People, Process Transformation & Business Readiness Program

• Location: Canberra (Hybrid)

About the Position:

Successful transformation isn’t just about implementing new technology. It’s about making sure people, processes and ways of working are ready for what comes next.

This role sits within a major transformation program introducing new payroll and HR management capability, with a strong emphasis on the people and process impacts of that change.

You’ll work directly with business stakeholders to understand where change will land, identify impacts across existing processes and standard operating procedures, and help teams prepare for the transition. That means getting close to the business rather than managing change from a distance.

The program is strongly focused on benefits realisation, so the role also connects change activity with the outcomes the transformation is expected to deliver

What You’ll Do:

• Lead change impact and readiness activities, working with stakeholders to understand how changes affect their people, processes and operating environment.
• Identify gaps across business processes and SOPs, helping stakeholders improve, develop or establish what is needed for the future state.
• Deliver change activities across communication, enablement, benefits measurement, organisational readiness, risks and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted relationships across complex stakeholder groups, helping people navigate ambiguity and the practical challenges that come with significant change.

What We Are Looking For:

• Proven organisational change management experience within complex transformation environments.
• Strong experience identifying change impacts and understanding how transformation affects business processes, stakeholders and organisational readiness.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, negotiation and influencing capability, including the ability to support people through the discomfort of change.
• Understanding of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) principles and benefits management, or a willingness to develop this capability.

Change & Delivery Environment:

• People, Process & Technology Transformation
• Change Impact & Organisational Readiness
• Business Process & SOP Improvement
• MSP, Benefits Realisation & Stakeholder Enablement

A Quick Note Before You Apply:

This role is unlikely to suit change practitioners whose experience has centred primarily on communications, training or producing change collateral.

The stronger fit is someone who has worked directly with business stakeholders to understand where change lands, what it means for existing processes and how to help people successfully move from current to future ways of working.

Relevant tertiary qualifications across Business, Organisational Psychology, Change Management or a related discipline, together with organisational change management certification, are preferred rather than mandatory.

This is a hybrid Canberra-based engagement, with a combination of office-based and work-from-home arrangements.

To showcase your interest for the position, click on ‘APPLY’ on our website or for any further information, please contact Sanat Anmadwar on Sanat.Anmadwar@talentinternational.com.We look forward to seeing how your expertise can help us achieve excellence!

We’re looking for an experienced Java / API Developer to join a major enterprise transformation program, building high-volume, mission-critical integration services that support millions of customer interactions.

This is a highly hands-on development role suited to an engineer who enjoys spending the majority of their time designing, coding, testing and delivering production-grade Java applications.

You’ll work within an experienced Agile engineering team using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka to build modern APIs, microservices and event-driven applications at enterprise scale.

About the Role

As a Java / API Developer, you’ll be responsible for the hands-on development and delivery of enterprise integration services.

You’ll take solution designs and requirements through to working production code, developing new services and APIs, enhancing existing applications, troubleshooting technical issues and contributing to the ongoing improvement of the platform.

This role will particularly suit someone who is technically strong, still actively coding and wants to remain hands-on rather than move into a purely architecture position.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of Java and Spring Boot microservices
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable REST APIs
• Develop enterprise integration and event-driven services using Apache Kafka
• Write clean, maintainable and production-ready Java code
• Build and deploy cloud-native applications across AWS and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Develop automated unit, integration and API tests
• Debug and troubleshoot complex application and production issues
• Optimise application performance, reliability and scalability
• Work with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming and technical problem-solving
• Work closely with Solution Architects and other developers to translate designs into working software
• Contribute to engineering standards and development best practices

Skills & Experience

We’re looking for a strong hands-on developer with commercial experience across many of the following:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• REST API development
• Microservices
• Apache Kafka
• AWS
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Event-driven architecture
• Docker and containerisation
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Enterprise integration
• Distributed systems
• Secure software development
• Performance optimisation
• Agile software delivery

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who is comfortable getting into the code and building complex backend services, rather than operating primarily at an architecture or management level.

What’s on Offer?

• 6-month contract
• $700-$800 per day (inc. super)
• Hybrid working environment
• Major enterprise cloud transformation program
• Modern engineering stack including Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka and Kubernetes
• Complex, high-volume development environment
• Work alongside highly experienced software engineers
• Opportunity to work on mission-critical systems at significant scale
• Immediate start available

If you’re a strong hands-on Java developer with experience building APIs, microservices and cloud-native applications and you’re looking for your next enterprise contract,

Apply now or contact ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

About the client

Our client supports complex Australian Defence maritime capability acquisition, transition and sustainment programs.
About the opportunities

We are recruiting multiple senior Engineering Managers to support Defence maritime programs across two key workstreams:

• Capability acquisition, transition and Introduction Into Service
• Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boat support-system remediation and sustainment

These are senior engineering leadership roles focused on governance, technical assurance, capability transition, certification, configuration management and long-term supportability.
The successful candidates will operate as trusted engineering advisers, working across Defence, Navy, SPO, military, logistics, sustainment and industry stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior engineering leadership and technical advice
• Exercise or support delegated Engineering Authority arrangements
• Establish engineering requirements for transition and remediation activities
• Provide engineering governance and technical assurance
• Identify, assess and manage technical risks
• Support capability acquisition, transition and Introduction Into Service
• Prepare and review Engineering Management Plans and transition documentation
• Support safety cases, technical certification plans and acceptance activities
• Conduct technical investigations and provide recommendations
• Oversee engineering inspections, testing and evaluation
• Manage engineering change and configuration-control activities
• Establish and maintain controlled design baselines
• Lead or support Maintenance Task Analysis programs
• Oversee configuration audits and baseline verification
• Support technical data remediation, including drawings, maintenance documentation and Illustrated Parts Catalogues
• Ensure engineering outcomes are safe, compliant and supportable
• Advise stakeholders on sustainment and in-service support impacts
• Work closely with Defence, Navy, SPO and industry partners

What’s in it for you?

• Multiple opportunities across critical Defence maritime programs
• Senior engineering leadership and delegated-authority responsibilities
• Exposure to capability acquisition, transition and sustainment
• Opportunities based in Cairns or Brisbane
• Some remote flexibility may be considered for suitable transition specialists
• Package of up to $180,000 available for applicable opportunities

Requirements

• Degree qualification in engineering or a related discipline
• Senior engineering-management experience within Defence or another highly regulated environment
• Strong engineering governance and technical-assurance capability
• Experience managing technical risk, certification and acceptance
• Knowledge of Defence capability acquisition and sustainment
• Experience developing and reviewing engineering and project artefacts
• Strong configuration-management and change-control experience
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to operate autonomously as a trusted engineering adviser
• Australian citizenship and ability to meet Defence security requirements

Highly regarded experience

• Defence maritime systems and sustainment
• Capability transition and Introduction Into Service
• Previous experience within an SPO, CASG or Defence capability environment
• Delegated Engineering Authority arrangements
• Maintenance Task Analysis
• Design-baseline development and configuration audits
• CPEng and RPEQ qualifications
• Current NV1 security clearance

Important ECCPB requirement
Candidates being considered for the Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boat workstream must have:

• Recent and direct ECCPB platform or support-system experience
• Current NV1 clearance
• Defence maritime sustainment experience
• Engineering Authority, configuration-management and technical-assurance experience

Candidates without ECCPB experience may still be considered for the broader capability transition and Introduction Into Service workstream.

To apply

Due to the high volume of applications, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually. Only candidates progressing to the next stage will be contacted.