We are seeking an experienced Program Coordinator to support our client within the Defence industry. This role plays a key part in coordinating governance processes, maintaining documentation, and supporting assurance activities to ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks.

The position will suit someone who is highly organised, comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, and experienced in coordination, reporting, and compliance-focused environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate program activities to support timely and compliant delivery
• Analyse, maintain, and update program documentation and artefacts
• Schedule assessments, meetings, and governance activities across multiple workstreams
• Track actions, milestones, and dependencies using Excel and reporting tools
• Engage with Project Managers and stakeholders to facilitate program processes
• Support audit and assurance activities, including assisting security assessors
• Prepare reports and papers for governance and leadership forums
• Identify and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong coordination, scheduling, and organisational skills
• Advanced capability using Microsoft Excel for tracking, analysis, and reporting
• Experience managing documentation and supporting compliance or governance processes
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines
• Exposure to cyber security, risk management, or Assessment & Authorisation frameworks
• Experience supporting audits, governance forums, or assurance activities
• Familiarity with regulated or government environments

Active NV1 security clearance is mandatory

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

IT Support Technician

Location: Sydney CBD – 5 days on-site
Eligibility: Australian Permanent Resident or Citizen required
Contract length: 12 months
Contract rate: Up to $45/hour, including super

About the Role

Talent International has partnered with a highly reputable global Consulting & Services organisation, recognised worldwide for its strong culture, innovation, and consistent inclusion on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For lists. You will be part of a high-performing IT support team providing hands-on, on-site workstation support to minimise business disruption. This role offers exposure to enterprise environments, leading-edge technologies, and both local and global projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide on-site end-user and workstation support

• Support and troubleshoot Windows and macOS environments

• Image, build, and deploy laptops and desktops

• Diagnose and repair hardware and peripheral issues

• Support meeting room and AV technologies

Skills & Experience Required

• 3+ years’ experience in IT or workstation support

• Strong Windows support experience with macOS exposure

• Hands-on experience imaging and building devices

• Hardware break/fix and troubleshooting experience

• Excellent communication and customer service skills

Benefits & Development

• Exposure to leading-edge enterprise technologies

• Work with high-profile, global clients

• Ongoing training, mentorship, and career growth

• Collaborative team environment

• Opportunities to develop AV and user training skills

This is a great opportunity to join a globally recognised organisation where you can build your technical skills, gain exposure to enterprise environments, and grow your career alongside experienced professionals. If this sounds like you, please apply now!

Payroll Team Leader – Leading Health & Community Organisation | Macquarie Park

Permanent | $137,000 + super | Hybrid: 4 days in-office, 1 day WFH

We’re partnering with a leading organisation in the health and community sector who are seeking an experienced Payroll Team Leader to join their supportive team in Macquarie Park.

This is a “unicorn” role – ideal for a strong payroll professional with hands-on NZ payroll expertise, prior system change experience, and proven people leadership skills. You will lead a payroll team of approximately 700 employees and play a critical hands-on role ensuring compliant, accurate, and timely payroll across the group.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a close-knit payroll team, leading and mentoring staff while maintaining payroll compliance across multiple entities. You’ll have the chance to make a real impact, overseeing payroll processes, resolving complex issues, and supporting system upgrades and integrations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and support the payroll team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Manage end-to-end payroll processing for Australian and New Zealand employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness.
• Ensure compliance with Australian and New Zealand payroll legislation (Fair Work Act, Superannuation Guarantee, Holidays Act, IRD, etc.).
• Validate payroll masterfile data, onboarding and termination records, wages, bonuses, leave, tax, and superannuation/KiwiSaver payments.
• Approve payment files to Finance within SOD (wages, PAYG/PAYE, payroll tax, superannuation).
• Resolve complex payroll discrepancies efficiently and maintain data integrity across multiple systems.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders (HR, Finance, department managers) and external vendors.
• Manage team SLAs and inbound payroll queries using tools like Jira.
• Support audits, reporting, and ongoing compliance initiatives.

About You

• 7+ years’ payroll experience, including NZ payroll expertise.
• 2+ years’ experience in people leadership within payroll teams.
• Hands-on experience with payroll system changes and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Australian and New Zealand payroll legislation.
• Exceptional attention to detail, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Tertiary payroll certification desirable (or equivalent work experience).
• Approachable, collaborative, and able to lead by example.

The Details

• Location: Macquarie Park (hybrid: 4 days office, 1 day WFH)
• Position Type: Permanent
• Salary: $137,000 + super
• Team Size: Payroll team supporting ~700 employees

Why You’ll Love It

• Lead a highly regarded payroll team within a supportive, down-to-earth culture.
• Take ownership of payroll operations and system enhancements.
• Opportunity to have a meaningful impact on payroll delivery and compliance across the group.
• Flexible working arrangements to balance in-office and WFH days

Please APPLY NOW!

Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications DBA, Contract

A project with one of our clients is currently seeking an Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications DBA to support and maintain enterprise Oracle EBS environments. Unfortunately, we can only consider Australian Citizens for this opportunity.

Contract details

• location: Sydney, preferred

• contract length: 6 months, with potential extension

• eligibility: Australian Citizenship required

Role overview

You’ll be responsible for the ongoing management and maintenance of Oracle EBS 12.2.X environments, ensuring availability, security, and performance. The role involves working closely with both onshore and offshore teams in a fast moving, collaborative setup.

Key responsibilities

• manage large on premise Oracle eBusiness Suite implementations

• perform patching and cloning across multiple Oracle EBS 12.2.X environments

• administer concurrent managers, workflow services, and support database tuning activities

• implement and maintain Oracle Server Security Standards, including Unix account locking and password policies

• ensure compliance with client security and maintenance policies

• proactively monitor application health, database performance, and infrastructure

• implement Single Sign On and Multi Factor Authentication

• build and support multi node Oracle EBS environments

• troubleshoot across application, database, and Unix layers

• maintain configuration workbooks and system administration documentation

• collaborate effectively with onshore and offshore teams across time zones

Required skills and experience

• strong experience administering Oracle eBusiness Suite 12.2.X

• proven capability with patching, cloning, and core EBS system administration

• solid Unix, Linux administration skills

• experience with security hardening and compliance in Oracle environments

• comfortable working with distributed teams and multiple time zones

Nice to have

• SSO and MFA implementation for on premise Oracle EBS

• multi node Oracle EBS environment experience

• Oracle Enterprise Manager exposure for Oracle EBS

• functional awareness of EBS modules such as AP, AR, GL, Procurement

• exposure to integration architecture and interface design for Oracle EBS

Preferred qualifications

• Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle eBusiness Applications DBA

About the Role
You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of information and records – Provide appraisal, classification, registration and distribution of incoming physical and digital mail into the approved Electronic Document and Records Management System

this role is through to of June 2026.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain records in accordance with internal policies and governance requirements
• Support users with records, information and storage systems
• Action service desk requests and provide follow-up and reporting
• Assist with archiving, storage management, and correspondence handling

About You

• Experience using electronic records management systems
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and organisational skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and build effective working relationships
• Understanding of Victorian Government records management standards (PROV) desirable

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Xavier Cusack at xavier.cusack@talentinternational.com

• Community Engagement Officer – Darwin
• 6 Months Contract with extension possibility
• Darwin NT based role with hybrid arrangement

About the Role

Our client is seeking an experienced APS6 Co‑Design & Engagement Officer to support the delivery of key engagement initiatives across the organisation. Working under limited direction, you will provide high‑level technical, policy and operational support while leading and facilitating engagement activities with internal and external stakeholders.

This role plays a critical part in shaping and delivering co‑design projects, supporting strategic planning, and contributing to broader organisational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate data analysis and feedback to measure the effectiveness of engagement activities, identifying risks and trends.

• Contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of targeted engagement strategies aligned with organisational frameworks and business plans.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support a wide range of engagement events, forums, and consultations.

• Support the operationalisation of proactive engagement strategies, including forward planning of events aligned to corporate and divisional priorities.

• Facilitate co‑design sessions and engagement workshops as required.

About You

You bring strong stakeholder engagement capability, excellent communication skills, and confidence working in complex or sensitive environments. You adapt quickly to change, maintain high work standards, and thrive in a collaborative setting.

Capabilities & Attributes

• Strong adaptability and resilience in changing environments.

• Ability to build customer loyalty and trusted relationships.

• Skilled in coaching, mentoring and supporting others.

• Strong planning, organisation and project coordination skills.

• High level of technical and professional knowledge relevant to engagement and co‑design.

• Proven ability to manage relationships and communicate effectively.

• Consistently high energy and commitment to quality outcomes.

Work Level Expectations (APS6)

• Provide specialist advice across a range of activities.

• Contribute to business improvement and change initiatives.

• Supervise and support team members where required.

• Manage resources, reporting and analysis within your area of responsibility.

Eligibility

• Australian Citizenship is required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance may be required.

The opportunity:
Our highly valued client is a federal government agency, who are seeking an Mulesoft Integration Engineer to join the team.

• Richmond location with flexibility 1-2 days in office
• Market Hourly Rate (7.5 hours per day)
• 30 June initial contract with a 5-month extension available

Requirements:

• Apply MuleSoft 4 experience to develop experience, process and system API assets.
• Collaborate with Architects, Integration Analysts, Designers, BA’s and Testers to interpret the end-to-end integration design and technical specifications to build the integration solution.
• Help formulate and support quality integration standards.
• Adhere to the data replication approach for the replication, transformation, archiving and migration of data.
• Contribute to the specification preparation of data integration, both content and structure, for end-to-end replication from source to target systems.
• Contribute to the analysis and specification of data integrations, both content and structure end-to-end.
• Maintain the efficient operation of the end-to-end data integration process, including scheduling, error handling, and daily maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Monitor relevant systems and associated integration performance and conduct tuning activities to maintain the optimum performance.
• Develop reusable assets and components in line with the standards and patterns applied across the whole project.
• Execute configuration testing and documentation and support the SIT effort.
• Facilitate training and knowledge transfer to support the service transition to the BAU support team.
• Adhere to the incremental delivery approach to enable the project to deliver early and continuously.

About you?

• Proven experience integrating MuleSoft 4 platform in a complex ICT environment.
• Ability to develop MuleSoft, CI/CD and Agile services within a DevOps environment.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering REST based services including design of APIs.
• Formal certifications and evidence of at least 5 years’ experience in integration development.
• Proven experience in Agile CI/CD development and working within a DevOps environment.
• Proven experience working in a multi-disciplinary team, building rapport and managing stakeholder expectation.
• You must be an Australian Citizen eligible for baseline security clearance

Apply
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Company

IT consulting business working with Australian Federal Government client

Requirements

• Seeking experienced and dynamic Senior Engineers for Tools Lifecycle Management to oversee and optimise the entire lifecycle of our enterprise tools
• Must hold active Australian Security Clearance (Baseline Security at a minimum)
• Lead the transition of the current operating model for tools lifecycle management, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
• Manage and oversee incident, problem, and request management processes related to enterprise tools, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on business operations.
• Experience in procurement, packaging, and distribution of enterprise tools or similar roles.
• In-depth knowledge of procurement processes, software packaging, and IT distribution methods
• Proficiency in software management tools and platforms.

Interested? HIT APPLY NOW or email your CV to josh.dmonte@talentinternational.com

Company

IT Consulting business working with Federal Government client

Requirements

• Must hold an active Australian Security Clearance (Baseline Security at a minimum)
• 2+ years of experience in managing, configuring, and optimising automation and orchestration tools in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven experience with transitioning automation and orchestration platforms from service providers to in-house teams.
• Hands-on expertise in tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, or Azure DevOps.
• Expertise in container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) for workflow automation and customisation.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their orchestration tools.

Interested? HIT APPLY NOW or email you CV to josh.dmonte@talentinternational.com

Company

IT Consulting business working with Federal Government

Requirements

• Must hold an active Australian Security Clearance (Baseline or higher)
• Lead the end-to-end process of transitioning security tools from external service providers to in-house management.
• Develop detailed transition plans, ensuring minimal disruption to security operations and business processes.
• Collaborate with service providers to transfer knowledge, documentation, and tool configurations during the transition phase.
• Conduct thorough assessments to validate that all security tools are fully functional post-transition and are aligned with organisational security standards.
• Deep understanding of IT tool architecture, configuration management, and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) for tool integration and customisation.
• Familiarity with APIs, web services, and automation platforms for integrating various enterprise tools.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring/alerting systems.

Interested? HIT APPLY NOW or email your CV to josh.dmonte@talentinternational.com

• Initial contract through 30 June 2026, with 2 x extension options each up to 12 months (2.5 year contract)
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Baseline security clearance or higher required
• Strong background leading cloud, data, solution or security architecture within complex enterprise or government environments

Opportunity
You will be joining a new digital transformation program, providing architectural leadership across complex initiatives. You will play a critical role in shaping and driving target-state architectures and guiding implementation.

This is a hands-on Architecture role for professionals who thrive on technical depth, problem-solving and influencing outcomes at scale, rather than people management or traditional delivery oversight.

Your duties will include:

• Leading the design and direction of cloud (Azure), data, solution or security architectures
• Producing high-level designs, architectural blueprints, roadmaps and governance artefacts
• Translating complex architectural concepts into clear, actionable work packages for the team’s architects and workload
• Represent technical scope of the program to key stakeholders
• Actively resolving complex technical challenges across multiple technology domains
• Influencing senior stakeholders and shared-service partners to align architectural outcomes
• Working directly with programs to shape target-state architectures and guide implementation
• Executive level reporting, executive briefs and board papers to reflect technical progress
• Act as a conduit between Architecture team and the Executive and business sponsors

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Lead Architecture background within federal government or large enterprise (not people or project management focused)
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale cloud, data, solution or security architectures
• Strong capability in developing high-level designs, architectural standards and governance frameworks
• Ability to engage hands-on with complex technical problem-solving
• Experience influencing stakeholders across large, federated or government environments
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate architectural direction clearly
• You will personally drive architectural outcomes rather than oversee or interpret work created by others – however you will lead technical direction, effort and reporting to the business on progress.

Application
kylie.mcmanus@talentinternational.com // 0408 388 680

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• Initial contract through 30 June 2026, with extension options of up to 12 months
• Hybrid working arrangements across ACT, NSW, VIC, QLD or SA
• Baseline security clearance required
• Strong background in cloud, data, solution or security architecture within complex enterprise or government environments

This role sits at the heart of a major digital transformation program, providing architectural leadership across complex and high-impact initiatives. You will play a critical role in shaping and driving target-state architectures, translating strategic intent into practical, implementable outcomes. This is a hands-on architecture role for professionals who thrive on technical depth, problem-solving and influencing outcomes at scale, rather than people management or traditional delivery oversight.

Your duties will include:

• Leading the design and direction of cloud, data, solution or security architectures
• Producing high-level designs, architectural blueprints, roadmaps and governance artefacts
• Translating complex architectural concepts into clear, actionable outcomes for stakeholders
• Actively resolving complex technical challenges across multiple technology domains
• Influencing senior stakeholders and shared-service partners to align architectural outcomes
• Working directly with programs to shape target-state architectures and guide implementation

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• A genuine architecture background (not delivery management or project management focused)
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale cloud, data, solution or security architectures
• Strong capability in developing high-level designs, architectural standards and governance frameworks
• Ability to engage hands-on with complex technical problem-solving
• Experience influencing stakeholders across large, federated or government environments
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate architectural direction clearly

While this roles require close collaboration with delivery teams, they are not delivery manager or project manager positions, nor are they focused on people management. Architects in these roles are expected to personally drive architectural outcomes rather than oversee or interpret work created by others.

Application Process: If you would like to apply, please contact Sanat on 0400 016 163 or email sanat.anmadwar@talentinternational.com

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