Senior Project Manager – Digital Delivery
Optimizely Digital Experience Platform

Scale Talent is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the implementation of an enterprise Digital Experience Platform.

This role will coordinate the delivery of Optimizely CMS, CMP, DAM and Opal AI capabilities, working closely with the systems integration partner and stakeholders across Technology, Digital, Marketing, Brand, Data, Cyber Security and the broader business.

You will oversee delivery from platform establishment through content migration, adoption, operational readiness, go-live and transition to business-as-usual.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of the Optimizely Digital Experience Platform.

• Coordinate the systems integration partner, Optimizely, agencies and internal delivery teams.

• Establish clear roadmaps, releases, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate Optimizely CMS delivery, including website experiences, content capability and migration.

• Oversee Optimizely CMP implementation, including content planning, collaboration, workflows and marketing operations.

• Coordinate Optimizely DAM delivery, including metadata, permissions, governance, workflows and asset migration.

• Lead the controlled implementation and adoption of Optimizely Opal AI capabilities.

• Ensure responsible AI, security, privacy and data-governance requirements are addressed.

• Oversee environments, configuration, access, identity, APIs, integrations, monitoring and deployment.

• Align the solution with enterprise architecture, technology and cyber-security standards.

• Maintain clear requirements, traceability and acceptance criteria.

• Lead integrated test planning, execution, defect management and reporting.

• Manage RAID, dependency, decision, action, change and deliverables registers.

• Manage budgets, forecasts, vendor expenditure and commercial commitments.

• Facilitate governance forums and provide executives with clear status, options and recommendations.

• Define go-live, cutover and operational-readiness criteria.

• Ensure support models, monitoring, runbooks, ownership, training and documentation are ready before launch.

• Coordinate deployment, communications, hypercare and transition to business-as-usual.

About you

You will bring:

• Extensive experience delivering complex digital, technology or customer-platform initiatives.

• Demonstrated success managing enterprise CMS, digital experience or marketing-technology implementations.

• Strong systems integration and vendor-management capability.

• Experience coordinating multiple business and technical workstreams.

• Strong understanding of platform environments, integrations, identity, data and release management.

• Experience managing content and digital-asset migration.

• Practical knowledge of cyber security, privacy, accessibility and data governance.

• Strong project governance, financial management and executive-reporting skills.

• Experience leading integrated testing, cutover, operational readiness and hypercare.

• Excellent stakeholder-management, facilitation and communication skills.

• The ability to bring structure, transparency and accountability to complex delivery environments.

Highly regarded

• Direct experience implementing Optimizely CMS, CMP, DAM or Opal AI.

• Experience delivering enterprise Digital Experience Platforms.

• Exposure to responsible AI governance and AI-enabled content capabilities.

• Experience working across Digital, Marketing, Brand, Data and Technology functions.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards and customer-centred digital delivery.

What success looks like

You will establish clear accountability across all delivery partners and workstreams, maintain alignment between scope, schedule, budget and quality, and ensure the platform is secure, supportable and ready for operational use.

This role will suit a pragmatic and commercially capable Senior Project Manager who can confidently lead a complex digital-platform implementation from mobilisation through to go-live.

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Lead – Data Engineering to join a major enterprise data transformation and lead the technical delivery of two strategic data initiatives.

Cyber Security Change Lead

We’re looking for an experienced Cyber Security Change Lead to drive organisational change and adoption across a portfolio of high-priority cyber security initiatives within a large and complex government environment.

This is a senior change role requiring someone who can bridge the gap between technical cyber security requirements and people-focused change. You’ll develop and execute change strategies, assess organisational readiness, manage stakeholder engagement and help embed sustainable security practices across a large and diverse user base.

A key focus will be driving adoption of ASD Essential Eight security controls, making previous experience within cyber security transformation or security uplift programs highly desirable.

Initial contract through to 30 June 2027

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop and execute scalable change and communications strategies supporting major cyber security initiatives.
• Lead change activities supporting the implementation and adoption of ASD Essential Eight controls.
• Drive adoption across initiatives including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Application Control, Patching and Restricting Administrative Privileges.
• Translate complex technical and security requirements into clear, practical and user-friendly communications and workflows.
• Conduct detailed change impact and readiness assessments, identifying resistance, operational risks and potential workflow impacts.
• Develop practical mitigation and engagement strategies to support successful adoption.
• Partner with ICT project teams to align change milestones with government cyber directives, audit commitments and regulatory timelines.
• Engage and influence diverse stakeholder groups across corporate, technical and operational environments.
• Track user readiness and adoption, providing clear reporting on risks, progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
• Support the transition of security initiatives into BAU, embedding sustainable cyber security practices and behaviours.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Change Lead or Senior Change Manager with a strong track record delivering organisational change across complex technology environments.

Importantly, you’ll also bring a solid understanding of cyber security governance and security uplift initiatives, allowing you to translate technical security requirements into meaningful change for end users.

You will ideally bring:

• Strong senior-level Organisational Change Management (OCM) experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering change across cyber security, technology adoption or security uplift programs.
• Working knowledge of the ASD Essential Eight maturity model and controls.
• Experience supporting adoption of security controls such as MFA, application control, patching and privileged access.
• Strong experience developing and executing change, communications and stakeholder engagement strategies.
• Demonstrated capability conducting change impact, risk and readiness assessments.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, facilitation and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly messaging.
• Experience measuring adoption, readiness and change outcomes.
• Experience successfully transitioning project changes into sustainable BAU practices.
• Previous experience delivering large-scale technology or security programs within government/public sector environments will be highly regarded.

This is an excellent opportunity to lead meaningful organisational change while helping strengthen cyber security maturity across a large and highly diverse environment.

This role sits within a very large, highly complex ICT infrastructure program with multiple concurrent workstreams, critical dependencies, and tight governance expectations. We’re looking for a senior, seasoned Program Controller (5-10 years’ experience) who can confidently manage integrated schedules, financial tracking, and delivery reporting at scale.

Experience in health (or similarly regulated, high-stakes environments) is strongly preferred, as the work supports enterprise systems and services that require strong discipline around controls, audit trails, and stakeholder management across technical teams, vendors, and operational business areas.

What you’ll be doing

• Build and manage an integrated program schedule across multiple infrastructure projects (MS Project)
• Maintain baselines, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
• Track progress vs plan, highlight variance, and produce forward delivery forecasts
• Coordinate schedule updates with Project Managers, technical leads, vendors, and delivery teams
• Manage program-level budget tracking (actuals, commitments, accruals, forecasts) and monthly reporting
• Support change impacts across schedule/financials (scope, delays, procurement, vendor performance)
• Produce governance reporting for program leadership and forums (e.g., Program Board)
• Maintain controls, registers, templates, reporting standards, and audit trails
• Monitor cross-program risks and interdependencies (projects, applications, vendors, business initiatives)

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in a complex ICT program environment (infrastructure/networks highly regarded)
• Strong MS Project scheduling expertise (WBS, dependencies, critical path)
• Solid financial controls capability: budgeting, forecasting, milestone/deliverable tracking
• Strong reporting and documentation skills; confident stakeholder engagement
• Experience working within PMO / program governance frameworks
• Relevant certification desirable (PRINCE2 Foundation / PMI / AIPM / PMBOK)

We are seeking a commercially minded Pricing Analyst to support pricing, cost modelling and bid activities across complex projects and service contracts for one of our Defence Client based in Adelaide.

You will work closely with Commercial, Finance, Business Development, Program Management, Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop accurate, competitive and compliant pricing solutions.

Security Requirements

Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance are required. Candidates holding Baseline or NV1 clearance are encouraged to apply.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your pricing and commercial career while supporting complex, high-value projects within a collaborative team environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop pricing models and cost estimates for tenders, proposals and contract variations.
• Build cost models covering labour, materials, subcontractors, overheads, escalation, risk and margin.
• Conduct financial modelling, cost analysis, sensitivity analysis and scenario modelling.
• Review actual costs and forecasts to improve pricing accuracy.
• Support bid submissions, pricing reviews, negotiations and commercial decision-making.
• Maintain pricing assumptions, supporting documentation and audit trails.
• Work with stakeholders to gather and validate pricing inputs.

About You

You will ideally have:

• Experience in pricing, estimating, commercial analysis, finance, contracts or bid support.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability.
• Strong attention to detail and commercial awareness.
• Ability to interpret financial, contractual and technical information.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Experience within defence, government, engineering, construction, infrastructure, manufacturing or professional services will be highly regarded.

Knowledge of government contracting, defence pricing, ASDEFCON, ERP systems or program financial controls is desirable.

If interested APPLY NOW or call Aparna Malik at 08 8228 1560 for a quick chat.

• Data Architect
• 12 months initial contract; with possible extension
• Adelaide Based Position

Seeking an experienced Data Architect / Data Technical Lead with strong Snowflake experience to lead a major data platform program. You’ll own data modelling and Snowflake platform design patterns, including layering, historisation and load patterns, while providing hands-on technical leadership and resolving complex data challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical oversight to Data Platform team including working out any issues with the conceptual or logical models.
• Collaborate with Enterprise architect to ensure project governance and contribute to required documentation for example Data Strategy documentation.
• Report and ensure adherence to the data capabilities policies
• Strong experience with Snowflake.
• Report in to Project Manager.
• Raise any risks, dependencies and blockers with Project Manager.
• Resolve technical blockers and complex requirements with a hands on approach in collaboration with the team.
• Owns the conceptual-to-logical design and the modelling patterns the program builds to.
• Sets the shape: entities, boundaries, mastering, keys and relationships.
• Owns the design and patterns for how the model is implemented on the platform – layering, historization and load patterns.

Apply now or reach out to Ivan Aureus at 0480 806 152 for a chat.

• Initial 12 month contract with the view to extend
• Conveniently located in Melbourne CBD with WFH arrangement (3 days’ in the office)
• Work on cutting edge, real time big data analytics projcets

This is a unique opportunity to lead the ongoing evolution of a mature analytics platform that combines real time data, geospatial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud-based software engineering. You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving software engineering excellence while mentoring team members and helping shape the future direction of advanced analytics capabilities across the organisation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience using Python
• Experience building and deploying production systems on AWS.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working with machine learning, AI, analytics, or data-intensive platforms.
• Knowledge of imagery, spatial modelling, and selective LiDAR use cases
• Any knowledge of imagery or spatial modelling would be highly regarded.
• Understanding of hardware-software integration workflows for sensor platforms.

Benefits:

• 12-month ongoing contract to start ASAP
• Top of the market contracting rate
• Work on an industry leading big data / ML program

If you would like to know more please contact Sean Mantri on 0420 425 141 / sean.mantri@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now!

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to support several large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. This is a 12-month fixed term contract with possibility of extension.

You will support major programs across HCM, procurement and contract management transformation, including new enterprise platform implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide coordination support to Program Directors, Project Managers and project teams
• Support monthly project financial cycles, including invoices, purchase orders, reconciliations and variance reporting
• Coordinate governance reporting and prepare Steering Committee packs
• Maintain project schedules, RAID logs, action registers and reporting
• Coordinate meetings, workshops and stakeholder forums, including minutes and follow-up actions
• Manage project documentation and reporting requirements
• Support process improvements across project delivery activities

Key Requirements

• 3-5+ years’ experience in project or program coordination
• Strong project financial administration, reporting and reconciliation experience
• Experience preparing governance and Steering Committee reporting
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Confident stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced project environment

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

We’re hiring across several ServiceNow opportunities for a major program, with all roles requiring a current NV1 clearance.

ServiceNow Architect

• CTA certification required
• Lead platform, solution, application and integration architecture
• Design scalable ServiceNow solutions aligned to business and technical requirements
• Strong experience with data models, table design and platform architecture
• Provide technical guidance and support across the broader delivery team

Senior ServiceNow Developer

• Advanced ServiceNow scripting, configuration and customisation
• Strong experience building and supporting scoped applications
• Develop and maintain integrations with internal and external systems
• Design and implement workflow automations
• Support technical troubleshooting and contribute to development standards

ServiceNow Developer

• Build and configure ServiceNow solutions across the platform
• Develop scripts, workflows and custom functionality
• Work with scoped applications and platform integrations
• Support testing, defect resolution and ongoing enhancements
• Collaborate with architects, developers and business stakeholders

Junior ServiceNow Developers

• Support ServiceNow platform configuration and development activities
• Assist with scripting, workflow creation and platform enhancements
• Work alongside senior developers on scoped applications and integrations
• Support testing, defect resolution and technical documentation
• Great opportunity to build deeper ServiceNow development experience

Location: Sydney preferred, open to other locations
Work arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office
Clearance: Current NV1 required
Contracts: Opportunities running into 2027

If you’re interested or know someone suitable, please get in touch. Contact Luther Borgas at Luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

Test Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Test Analyst to join a Sydney-based team working across functional, system, integration, and regression testing.

Role details:

• Sydney based
• Hybrid working – 3 days per week in the office
• Rate: $550-$580 per day
• Current NV1 clearance required

Key responsibilities:

• Analyse requirements and create detailed test cases
• Execute functional, system, integration, and regression testing
• Log and track defects through to resolution
• Prepare test data, evidence, and other testing artefacts
• Support UAT and work closely with business users
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and other testers

What we’re looking for:

• Strong functional and system testing experience
• Experience with tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Apply now or contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

Senior Project Manager – Integrated Planning and Schedule Consolidation

8-week initial contract | ASAP start

The Scale team keeps growing and we are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to come join us and help one of our clients review, stabilise and consolidate multiple delivery plans into one credible and executable program roadmap.

This short-term assignment requires a seasoned Project Manager strong with scheduling who can quickly understand a complex transformation environment, challenge assumptions and establish greater confidence in delivery sequencing, dependencies, milestones and critical-path activities.

The engagement

• Eight-week initial contract

• Immediate start

• Docklands, Melbourne

• Four days in the office and one day working from home

Key responsibilities

• Review existing project and workstream plans.

• Assess the quality, accuracy and completeness of current schedules.

• Challenge assumptions, milestones, dependencies and delivery sequencing.

• Facilitate planning workshops with project managers, workstream leads and business stakeholders.

• Consolidate multiple plans into a single integrated delivery schedule.

• Identify gaps, overlaps, risks and resource constraints.

• Define and validate cross-workstream dependencies.

• Establish the critical path and key delivery checkpoints.

• Recommend improvements to planning quality and delivery confidence.

• Develop an effective executive reporting view.

• Present findings and recommendations to program and executive stakeholders.

• Document governance requirements for maintaining the integrated schedule.

About you

You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading complex business or technology projects.

• Strong project-planning and delivery-management capability.

• Experience developing integrated project or program schedules.

• The ability to assess project health, delivery risk and schedule credibility.

• Experience working across multiple interconnected workstreams.

• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-engagement skills.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capability.

• Confidence constructively challenging assumptions and delivery dates.

• Strong executive communication, reporting and presentation skills.

Highly regarded

• Experience within major transformation programs.

• Experience consolidating multiple project plans into a master roadmap.

• Exposure to construction management, ERP or enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Smartsheet or comparable planning tools.

What success looks like

By the end of the assignment, the organisation should have:

• One agreed and integrated program schedule.

• A validated critical path and delivery sequence.

• Clearly documented cross-workstream dependencies.

• Identified planning gaps and delivery risks with mitigation recommendations.

• A fit-for-purpose executive reporting view.

• A documented governance model for maintaining the schedule.

This opportunity will suit a pragmatic, hands-on Project Manager who can quickly bring structure, challenge and delivery discipline to a complex transformation program.

A leading organisation is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure and resilient enterprise platform solutions.

In this high-impact role, you will develop high-level and detailed architectures for platform services, integrations, automation and operational tooling. You will lead initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation and operational handover, providing technical direction to project teams and delivery partners. Working across application, infrastructure, security and vendor teams, you will champion cloud-native design, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering practices while supporting the integration of enterprise systems, SaaS platforms, identity services, monitoring and security controls.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Proven Infrastructure Architecture and end-to-end delivery experience gained within large enterprise environments
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Entra ID and Active Directory
• Strong experience designing and configuring SSO and enterprise identity integrations
• Proven experience integrating SaaS platforms and designing their processes and configuration to meet business requirements
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture, automation, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering practices
• Excellent technical leadership and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience working with vendors, managed service providers and offshore delivery teams

This is an opportunity to lead multiple concurrent platform initiatives and shape secure, resilient services aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

They offer hybrid working – two days per week in the office in Sydney’s CBD.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online now.

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