Talent International is currently recruiting for an Events Coordinator to work for the Local Government, based in Ryde. The position is a 3-month contract and pays $40/ hour + Super.

Hours of Work: 7 hours p/d, 35 hours p/w

Description:

• Assist the Senior Coordinator Events in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the client’s annual civic and community events program.
• Assist with the operational delivery of the client’s program of civic and community events, including, but not limited to, monthly citizenship ceremonies, flag raising ceremonies, plaque unveilings, commemorations, client’s Markets, and general civic events.
• Attend client’s civic and community events and provide on-site support of the event operations, including with all event set-up and bump out.
• Coordinate and liaise with event contractors providing equipment and services for the client’s events.
• Provide input into the strategic development and planning of client’s program of events aligned to the strategic directions of the Events Plan 2023.
• Support the Festivals and Events Team to deliver their annual program of events, including, but not limited to, the Granny Smith Festival, Christmas Celebrations, New Year’s Eve Fireworks, Lunar New Year, Cork and Fork and Australia Day.
• Support community event organisers to safely operate a community event on the client’s land, ensuring they adhere to all safety procedures and client’s Policies.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders within the client to ensure the successful delivery of the client’s events, including Governance, Waste, Finance, Traffic, Operations, Community Services, IT, and Library Services.
• Liaise with the client’s marketing, communications, and design staff to ensure the successful marketing of the client’s program of events.
• Support the Senior Coordinator Events to facilitate meetings for committees, sub-committees, working groups and task forces, providing advice on client events.
• Carry out other duties as requested that are consistent with the skills, experience, and training of the incumbent.

Education / Qualifications

• A recognised tertiary qualification in events, or a minimum of 3 years, relevant work experience in event planning, delivery, and evaluation.
• Current Class C Driver’s licence.

Experience/Specific skills

• Demonstrated relevant experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of events that lead to successful social and/or cultural outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in all aspects of event planning, management, and delivery, including event infrastructure procurement and management.
• Excellent time management skills, including working to deadlines, and attention to detail at all times.
• Thorough written and oral communication to engage effectively with a range of diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills and a collaborative mindset to foster partnerships and maintain cooperative working relationships within client and the community.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

• Leading large cross-functional programs using agile methodologies, with a strong integrity and compliance lens
• 12 months + 12 months
• Canberra location – hybrid
• Must be an Australian Citizen with ability to obtain Baseline clearance

Our Client

This government agency is a service provider, responsible for providing and funding a range of support services to thousands of individuals across Australia. With multiple locations across Canberra, and nationwide, the organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for vulnerable Australians.

The Role

This Program Manager role offers the opportunity to drive complex, high-impact initiatives that improve service delivery and strengthen organisational integrity. You’ll lead cross-functional teams, embed agile ways of working, and ensure delivery aligns with strategic priorities and government milestones.

Your duties will include:

• Translating program goals and vision into a clear roadmap, backlog and delivery schedule
• Leading the end-to-end delivery of multiple cross-functional projects in an agile environment
• Managing schedules, resources, risks, dependencies and issues to keep delivery on track
• Establishing and maintaining program and project backlogs, and planning increments and iterations
• Monitoring program health, reporting on progress and performance, and driving corrective actions
• Facilitating agile ceremonies (PI planning, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and ensuring strong stakeholder engagement

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing large programs and cross-functional projects, ideally within government or complex environments
• Extensive hands-on experience applying agile methodologies (iterative delivery, feedback loops, continuous improvement)
• Strong understanding of integrity challenges and opportunities, and ability to translate these into actionable, measurable program outcomes
• Highly developed communication, collaboration and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and diverse stakeholder groups
• Proven experience leading delivery across business areas, enabling services, technology teams and external stakeholders
• Relevant Program/Project Management qualifications and/or experience working in multi-cloud and digital transformation environments (highly regarded)

Application Process

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, pleas click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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Cloud, Network, Infrastructure & Data Architecture | Governance | Enterprise-wide Systems | End-to-End ICT Solutions

• Location: ACT (Hybrid)
• Security Clearance: NV1 Cleared (Mandatory)
• Contract Length: 12 Months + 2 × 12-Month Extensions (Subject to Departmental Discretion)

Our client is currently engaged in delivering a large-scale federal program and are actively seeking multiple ‘Senior Solution Architects’ to lead end-to-end technology design across Network, Cloud/Application, Infrastructure and Data domains. This role sits within a high-performance architecture governance environment, delivering complex, secure, enterprise-grade solutions that align with departmental strategy, reference architectures, and ARB/DA oversight.

You will be responsible for shaping conceptual and detailed architectures, producing high-quality design artefacts, and guiding delivery teams to realise scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions across a diverse technology landscape.

Key responsibilities of the position:

• Design and deliver scalable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective technology solutions that meet business and infrastructure requirements.

• Conduct technology evaluations and select appropriate platforms, tooling and patterns aligned to business and technical needs.

• Define interfaces, integration points and data flows across multi-system and third-party environments.

• Produce high-level and detailed architectural artefacts including conceptual architectures, HLDs, DDDs, reference architectures, capability models, roadmaps, and technical specifications.

• Develop and maintain domain-level reference architectures, including current-to-target state views and landscape models.

• Support delivery teams during solution implementation, resolving technical challenges and ensuring fidelity to approved designs.

• Provide architectural assurance and contribute feedback to uplift architectural standards, patterns, and non-functional requirements.

• Actively participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Design Authority (DA) forums and promote broader team engagement.

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 5 years of ICT industry experience.

• Minimum 2 years producing solution architecture or system design documentation in enterprise environments.

• Experience delivering solutions within secure government environments alongside strong background working in large, complex ICT landscapes.

Desirable skills & expertise:

• Architecture experience within complex global ICT environments.

• Practical experience applying ISM and Essential Eight controls into architectural design.

• Strong cloud architecture capability across contemporary integration and connectivity patterns.

• Experience spanning on-prem, private cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments with secure, scalable integration considerations.

Why join our client?

• Contribute to enterprise-scale architectural uplift and governance across a high-impact federal environment.

• Work across diverse technology domains with significant autonomy and architectural influence.

• Engage in established governance forums including ARB and DA, shaping future-state technology direction.

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!

Talent International is currently recruiting for an APS5 Actuary to work for one of our Federal Government clients based in Surry Hills. The position is a 12-month contract role with the possibility of extension. The role pays $450 to $500 per day + Super.

7.5 hours per day and 37.5 hours per week

Role/s:

The APS5 Actuary is a team membership position that may be required to perform work that involves team leadership responsibilities requiring the setting of priorities and allocating work to other lower level team members within a team.

The APS5 Actuary will have a considerable level of contact with stakeholders and will be required to communicate with and provide advice on a range of matters to resolve moderately complex to complex enquiries.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Extracting, cleansing and preparing of data from multiple sources, in particular the data warehouse, and advising on appropriate data checks for reasonableness.
• Updating and development of regular performance monitoring.
• Supporting the Scheme Actuary Division to fulfill statutory requirements of the NDIS Act 2013 including the provision of data and analysis for reporting to the Board, Minister and for the purpose of public data sharing.
• Utilising statistical and mathematical modelling techniques to undertake analytical work on a range of tasks, including actuarial monitoring and analyses, data tabulations, scheme projects and cost benefit analyses.
• Undertaking ad hoc modelling requests and report production.
• Effectively communicating (verbally and in writing) the progress of work responsibilities and outcomes of work undertaken.

Essential criteria

1. Relevant quantitative degree in actuarial studies, statistics, engineering, mathematics, econometrics, computer science or related field.
2. Actuarial Education: Progress or completed Part I
3. 0 – 3 (graduate) Years of experience
4. Possess relevant academic qualifications such as tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, progressing towards Associate and/or Fellowship qualifications
5. Experience in using SAS, SQL, R, and/or Python.
6. Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 02 8240 9596 for a confidential discussion.

Data Platforms, Warehousing, Engineering & BI Solutions | Enterprise Data, Insights & Reporting | Uplift, Modernisation

• Location: Canberra, ACT (Hybrid)
• Security Clearance: NV1 Cleared (Mandatory)
• Contract Length: 12 Months + 2 × 12 Months Extensions (Subject to Department Discretion)

Our client is seeking to bring on-board a ‘Senior Business Analyst’ to support the uplift of their current Data Warehouse, Reporting, and Business Intelligence capabilities. This role sits within the Database Management and Dynamics Section (DBM), responsible for planning, designing, and maintaining our client’s enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and BI reporting platforms. The position directly contributes to the Application Platform Program (APP), a major initiative focused on rehosting legacy 2008/2012 server-based applications onto secure, modern infrastructure and strengthening cyber resilience.

Key responsibilities of the position:

• Analyse existing business processes, systems, and data flows to identify opportunities, inefficiencies, and risks.

• Elicit, document, and manage requirements including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and NFRs.

• Create and maintain data models, process diagrams, wireframes, and solution visualisations.

• Act as the conduit between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clear communication and solution alignment.

• Support testing activities, defect triage, and implementation planning across new system deployments.

• Prepare and deliver reports, insights, recommendations, and executive-level documentation.

• Produce user guides, training materials, and knowledge artefacts for new or enhanced systems.

• Engage deeply with SMEs, end users, product owners, architects, DBAs, developers, and testers to design and shape end-to-end solutions.

• Conduct research and detailed analysis on current processes, datasets, and business challenges to inform solution direction.

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 7+ years experience in Business Analysis roles within complex ICT environments.

• Proven ability to confidently elicit, define, and manage epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.

• Strong experience facilitating workshops, interviews, and collaborative sessions with senior business and technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated capability to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities using recognised modelling and analysis tools and standards.

• Experience applying Business Analysis practices to emerging technology challenges, particularly across data, integration, BI, and modernisation projects.

• Relevant ICT or Business Analysis qualifications (e.g., IIBA or equivalent).

Desirable skills & expertise:

• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritise effectively, and meet critical deadlines.

• Familiarity with business intelligence and reporting software/tools.

• Negotiation skills and the ability to influence stakeholders in complex delivery environments.

Why join our client?

• Work within a high-performing IMT division leading major transformation and modernisation initiatives.

• Contribute to critical national ICT uplift programs improving security, resilience, and operational capability.

• Opportunity to engage with senior technical teams across data, architecture, security, and application modernisation streams.

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!

A leading financial services organisation is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with deep operational and Azure cloud experience to join their team on an initial twelve-month contract.

Joining a high-performing cloud and platform operations group, you will be responsible for driving operational readiness, service stability, and major incident leadership across a large and complex Azure environment. You will oversee the transition of cloud applications into full operational support, ensuring services are production ready, validated, resilient and compliant, while leading a team of 6-8 engineers focused on monitoring, alerting and reliability.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Leading operational readiness and transition-to-operations for Azure cloud services
• Leading, mentoring and developing a team of SRE/Cloud engineers
• Acting as the primary escalation point for L3 major incidents, troubleshooting and recovery
• Managing monitoring, alerting and platform tooling to maintain service availability

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Strong SRE or operational engineering background with leadership experience
• Proven experience leading teams and running large-scale Azure cloud services in large, complex environments
• Proven capability in major incident management and improving service reliability
• Strong understanding of SLA/SLO frameworks, DR testing and operational governance
• Ability to work through complex technical issues and guide teams to solutions
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills

This is a Sydney-based role which will require you to be in the office at least two days per week.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply today!

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A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Cyber Security Architect to join their team on an initial six month contract.

Joining a security architecture practice, you will be working on a number of project engagements and engaging with business stakeholders from across the business. You will be responsible for conducting security and threat assessments to ensure workloads or systems are assessed against appropriate security controls, risk mitigation exercises to ensure adequate controls have been considered as part of the overall solution, as well as providing recommendations and advice to ensure solutions falls within internal security guidelines.

This position will suit candidates who are collaborative, with strong stakeholder engagement skills combined with a solid background in cyber security architecture.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (i.e. CISSP)
• Strong experience working as a Cyber Security Architect within large complex environments (preferably Financial Services)
• Good understanding of information security / architecture / risk frameworks such as SABSA, NIST 800-53 and/or TOGAF
• Proven experience consulting and providing advice to business and technical stakeholders on a range of projects
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to consult, negotiate and influence
• Superior verbal and written communication skills

This is a Sydney-based role which will require you to be in the office at least two – three days per week.

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

Are you passionate about Shopify and building enterprise-level e-commerce solutions? We’re looking for a senior E-Commerce Solution Architect to take the lead on designing and delivering complex Shopify projects. This fully remote role gives you the freedom to shape the architecture, guide development teams, and solve real technical challenges from start to finish.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the technical design of Shopify and Shopify Plus projects, including headless setups and custom integrations.

• Work closely with developers, guiding implementation and reviewing solutions to make sure they’re scalable and maintainable.

• Collaborate with UX designers and functional teams to ensure requirements are achievable and aligned with Shopify capabilities.

• Support testing, integration, and deployment activities to make launches smooth and reliable.

• Break down technical tasks, size efforts accurately, and provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle.

• Be the go-to technical advisor, solving challenges and helping the team deliver quality solutions.

What we’re looking for

• Hands-on experience with Shopify and Shopify Plus, including Liquid, APIs, headless patterns, and integrations.

• Solid understanding of the Shopify app ecosystem and extensibility surfaces (Checkout UI, Customer Account, Shopify Functions).

• Ability to translate business requirements into practical, maintainable technical solutions.

• Experience mentoring or guiding developers and leading technical decisions.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working fully remotely and managing your own priorities.

Why this is a great role

• Fully remote with flexibility to work how you work best.

• Lead exciting, high-impact Shopify projects from architecture through launch.

• Make real technical decisions and influence project delivery.

• Work alongside a skilled, collaborative team focused on building great e-commerce solutions.

Our client is an iconic Australian organisation currently seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to manage and drive improvements across their AWS platform.

Your new role will see you leading a team of Platform Engineers developing on the businesses AWS platform. You will play a key role in developing the roadmap for the uplift of the AWS platform and deliver upon it over the coming years. Long term you will help the team drive the adoption of Terraform across the team and secure the the platform from a security perspective. This role offers the opportunity to build upon your people management experience and drive significant change across an enterprise AWS platform.

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in team leadership and management (teams of 5 or more)
• A strong background delivering across the AWS platform
• Understanding of networks, security and identity
• Hands on experience with Terraform
• Ability to build strong relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Our client is offering a full time permanent position with offices based in Richmond. They offer a hybrid work environment with a requirement to be onsite 3 days per week. The office is close to both train and tram lines with paid onsite parking available.

For more information feel free to contact Ben Austin at ben.austin@talentintenational.com

• Top of the market rate / salary
• Lead the architecture for Nutanix and Automation (AWS) programs
• 12 month ongoing contract with a garunteed converstion to permanent

My client is currently on the lookout for a experienced Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and optimise compute platforms across Nutanix and AWS environments. You will lead the transition to a fully Nutanix environment and oversee the automation rollout within an AWS environment using DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub and terraform. The ideal candidate will have strong technical leadership across compute, storage, and virtualisation domains with the ability to work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver future-ready solutions.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Infrastructure Architect working in complex environments
• Strong expertise in Nutanix – Ideally a lead the migration from VMWare to Nutanix
• Good understanding of AWS compute services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda).
• Solid understanding of virtualisation (VMware, Hyper-V), containers, and hybrid cloud integration.
• Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of networking, storage, and security principles in hybrid environments.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Nutanix Certified Professional/Expert) highly regarded.
• Tertiary qualifications in IT, Computer Science, or Engineering.

Benefits:

• Rare opportunity to lead the implementation of Nutanix and AWS automation
• Convert to permanent after 12 months
• Central CBD location – 2 day WFH

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

• Initial 9 Month Contract | Potential For Extensions
• Clayton Location | 3 Days On-Site & 2 Days WFH
• Data Transformation Program | Databricks. Lakehouse (Delta Lake/Spark)

The Role: The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for safeguarding the system-agnostic business information models by modelling and stitching data within the existing enterprise data ecosystem, ensuring consistency and continuity.

The Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain advanced data transformations and analytical workflows using SQL, Python, and Databricks, operating on large-scale datasets within a Lakehouse (Delta Lake / Spark) architecture
• Design and document business-aligned data models using best practice modelling principles.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of internal data modelling standards across the team.
• Design and build well-structured, efficient reports and dashboards in Power BI that are tailored to business needs and based on trusted, modelled datasets.
• Investigate complex data problems and independently prototype and implement analytical solutions within Databricks
• Conduct data profiling, validation, and quality remediation to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency

Skills & Experience Required:

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Data Analyst delivering high-quality analytics using SQL and Python within Databricks.
• Strong understanding of Lakehouse architecture, particularly working with large-scale structured datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain robust data models and curated datasets to support reporting and analysis.
• Experience working with semantic modelling tools (e.g. Lucidchart or equivalent) to visualise data models.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining Power BI dashboards aligned with best practices.

What’s in it for you:

• Initial 9 Month Contract | Potential For Extensions
• Clayton Location | 3 Days On-Site & 2 Days WFH
• Data Transformation Program | Databricks. Lakehouse (Delta Lake/Spark)

Apply today and Jimmy Nguyen will reach out to disclose further information.

EL1 Data Architect

Contract Duration: 12 Months
Location: NSW (Hybrid)
Hours: 37.5 per week
Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline
Citizenship: Australian citizens only

Role Overview

The EL1 Data Architect is a senior technical role responsible for leading a project stream within a data warehouse platform. The role provides thought leadership in data architecture, data modelling, design, integration, and end-to-end data delivery. It includes reviewing and approving data designs, guiding development teams, setting release standards, and ensuring high-quality, scalable, and performant data solutions.

The role also focuses on collaborating with key business areas to develop and implement consumable reports and analytics to address key risks and emerging trends.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to project delivery teams through design reviews, advising on best practices, and running technical workshops.

• Review and refine the data delivery framework to enhance integration of new sources, improve performance, and accelerate development of new subject areas.

• Establish peer review and data modelling release standards.

• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions on best practices for development, data modelling, and release processes.

• Own the technical implementation of new data from analysis to delivery.

• Facilitate continuous improvement in delivery principles, coding standards, documentation, and team capability.

• Prioritise work items and manage the work queue.

• Analyse, understand, and size user requirements.

• Provide guidance on Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models; strong experience with tools such as Erwin.

• Develop and maintain system and technical documentation.

• Collaborate with data consumers, database developers, testers, and IT support teams.

Essential Criteria (must be addressed in 1-page pitch, 5000 characters)

1. Data Warehousing Concepts: Deep understanding of Data Warehouse Architecture, Data Modelling Techniques, ELT/ETL Processes, and Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD).

2. Data Warehousing Technologies Expertise: Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following: Teradata, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks.

3. SQL Mastery: Deep knowledge of SQL concepts and practical application.

4. Data Integration Tools: Proficiency with an ETL tool such as Talend, Informatica, or DBT.

Desirable Criteria

1. Cloud platform experience: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

2. Familiarity with data modelling tools such as Erwin or Enterprise Architect.

3. Strong stakeholder management and soft skills.

4. Ability to design for large-scale data volume, performance, throughput, and latency.

Eligibility Requirements

• Australian citizenship is mandatory.

• Must be able to obtain Baseline security clearance.

How to Apply

Candidates must provide a one-page pitch addressing all essential criteria. The pitch should clearly demonstrate relevant experience, skills, and outcomes aligned with the EL1 Data Architect role. Maximum 5000 characters.

Please submit both your resume and one-page pitch to:
📩 priya.gabriel@talentinternational.com