The Data Engineer will have a broad understanding of data profiling, data modelling and data governance to assist senior team members and stakeholders to improve regulatory processes and outcomes.

The Data Engineer will be required to:

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

* Participate and collaborate in a high performing SCRUM team to deliver on key BAU activities and milestones from the Project Roadmap, and Data Science and Analytics Strategy.

* Demonstrate excellent judgement skills at interpreting business requirements, estimating workloads, prioritizing tasks, and managing time in the delivery of quality solutions to meet deadlines.

* Communicate well and respectfully through all written and verbal interactions.

* Conduct or facilitate feasibility, requirements gathering, user acceptance, demonstration, or other meetings with team and with customers.

* Provide technical guidance and be a role model to BI Developers, Data Scientists, and junior engineers.

* Develop highly performant, efficiently administered, cost considerate, and fully secure data pipeline solutions.

* Support, maintain, and upgrade existing data workflows, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure environments through all stages of application life cycle management.

* Participate in rotating incident management duties which includes troubleshooting and resolving incidents, performing RCAs, configuring monitoring, and writing troubleshooting guides.

* Operate using modern CI/CD methods with automated testing, code reviews, and CAB approved releases.

Skills and Capabilities

* Proven skills with ETL/ELT packages, pipelines, or integrations

* Proven skills with RMDBS systems and concepts including normalization, data modelling, schemas, etc

* Proven skills with object-oriented programming, design patterns, unit testing, CI/CD, and debugging

* Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft BI Stack, SQL Server, Integration Services, Analysis Services, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, DevOps

* Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Python, R, Power Query M, or DAX languages

* Demonstrated knowledge of Big Data concepts: structure, unstructured, streaming, data lake, governance, lineage, etc

* Strong critical thinking abilities enabling one to problem solve, analyse complex systems, an optimize solutions

* Strong self-motivation enabling one to upskill oneself, improve one’s knowledge, and investigate issues

* Strong attention to detail

Qualifications and Experience

Essential to the Role

* Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent IT work experience

* Minimum of three years Data Engineering experience with proven skills using analytic software

* Experienced member of SCRUM and agile teams

* Experienced with project management, SDLC, and data life cycle processes

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, Talent and everything in-between, don’t hesitate to call Brid Coughlan on 0439 213 636 for a confidential discussion.

brid.coughlan@talentinternational.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brid-coughlan/

Talent International is searching for an experienced Senior D365 Developer to join our State Government client based in Brisbane CBD on a contract until June 2024 + likely extensions.

// Provide support for a new Dynamics CRM Solution
// Contract until June 2024 + likely extensions
// Brisbane CBD location – 2 days wfh

The role:

Part of a team responsible for the deployment, support, development and maintenance of a Dynamics CRM solutions and all associated products, including custom workflows, plug-ins and various integrations.

Responsibilities

• Work with Program Development Manager to contribute to the team’s high-quality results through sharing technical knowledge, expertise and looking for opportunities for improvements
• Participate in the development activities of a small team to meet project deliverables
• Participate in the build and release activities for the product/project.
• Take a proactive approach in resolving technical development issues for the team
• Ensure sequencing and prioritisation set by the Program Iteration Manager is adhered to
• Collaborate with other development teams and the Program Development Manager to identify dependencies and assist scheduling them.
• Involvement in daily stand-ups and provide estimations for work effort as required
• Apply and adhere to the agreed standards and processes to maintain consistency and quality of delivered solutions
• Work closely with the testers and Project staff to ensure DevOps items are being managed to meet timeframes, timely development sprints are achieved, and defects are resolved.
• Develop quality, fit-for-purpose applications and services including custom workflows, plug-ins and various integrations
• Work in an agile methodology operating environment to develop Dynamics 365 based solutions including deployment and monitoring
• Work within and enhance the ALM Practices set out by the Program Development Manager.
• Create and update technical design documents and as build documentations.
• Support existing applications and transition of applications to operations.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Senior D365 Developer role
• Demonstrated experience with implementing Application Life Cycle Management in Dynamics 365 Build and release process.
• Demonstrated experience in building modular solutions using managed solutions.
• Demonstrated experience – a) working with business analysts, product owners to translate the requirements to functional and technical designs, b) building and updating Entity Models for the Dynamics 365 solutions, c) participating in sprint user story grooming and prioritisation discussions, and d) creating and updating technical design documents.
• Experience working with GIT and Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrated experience in both Dynamics and non-Dynamics based solutions with the ability to apply general development best practices to Dynamics 365 low code development platform.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of core Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) modules and best practices including solution life-cycle (e.g. creation, updating, dependencies, etc)
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of development/technologies associated with Dynamics 365 (e.g. Workflows, Cloud Flows, Power Automate, Plug-Ins, Client Side, Power BI etc).
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of Power Apps Portals as a front end for Dynamics 365 systems.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of Unified Client Interface (Canvas) apps in Dynamics CRM.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud-based services (e.g. directory service, service bus, web services, DevOps pipelines, etc) and how they can integrate with Dynamics 365.
• Experience in Angular 6+, C#, HTML, CSS and Web API’s.

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Samantha Burkin or Mats Rorvik on 07 3031 4522 or 07 3031 4512 or samantha.burkin@talentinternational.com or mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com
For a list of all vacant positions, please see our website www.talentinternational.com

• Contract until 28th of June 2024
• Market Rates
• Daily Rate Contract

Description:
This role will support the team to improve data quality, define data sources, build dashboards, perform analytics and data interpretation to inform business decisions. The Data Analyst will support data driven decisions through the provision of data, insights and recommendations to stakeholders both within and outside the branch.

The Data Analyst will be responsible for the following:

• Analyse data from the existing system to determine volumes to be migrated to the new application and identify any data quality issues.
• Liaise with the vendor to map existing data to the data required for the new system where the vendor provides templates for staging entities.
• Design the data migration process including remediation of low-quality data, extract jobs (from multiple source systems), transformation processes and migration audit logs.
• Have work experience with ETL/ELT tools that will potentially be extracting from multiple data sources, transform this and load it into multiple templates provided by the vendor of the new system.
• Work with the Lead Analyst to effectively manage technical risks, issues, conflicts, and priorities to complete work within the required deadlines.
  Please ensure that any skillsets meeting any of the role specifications are detailed in the candidate’s application.

If you are interested in this role please apply below, alternatively you can email Ziomi Warchalowski on ziomi.warchalowski@talentinternational.com

Talent International is searching for experienced Senior Solution Architect for our large QLD Government Department base in Brisbane CBD.

About the role :

We are seeking a suitably experienced Solution Architect to contribute to the successful delivery of a Technical Refresh End of Life Server Upgrade. This project is part of a large portfolio of in-flight and emerging ICT initiatives.

Essential :

1. Strong knowledge in all phases of the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
2. Broad knowledge of the following technology domains with a background in one or more:

o Databases and data management
o Desktop (Windows)
o Infrastructure (server and operating system) (Windows, Linux)
o Infrastructure (virtualisation and storage) (VMWare, SAN)
o Mobility (Apple, Windows)
o Software development and integration (.Net, Java)
o Networking and Telecommunications
o Information and Network Security

Desirable :

System analysis activities on complex Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products

• Knowledge of Agile delivery
• Awareness of ITIL framework or similar process methodologies
• Awareness of PRINCE2 or similar project management methodologies
• A degree level qualification in Information Technology or Computer Science is highly regarded
• Awareness of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
• Cloud and IT automation technologies
• Public safety business systems
• ERP, CRM, Web, Social Media technologies

Must be Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident / NZ Citizen. You will be working 3 days in the office and 2 WFH. No remote option is available.

Talent International is searching for experienced Senior Network Engineer to join our client, a large provider of Logistic Services . This is a 6-month contract position based in Fortitude Valley.

About the role :

You will be responsible for management, upgrade, availability of network and application security equipment deployment / replacement.

Responsibilities / Critical Deliverables

1. Design documentation for implementation
2. Configuration and testing
3. Migration and cutover to services
4. Transition to support documentation
5. Troubleshoot complex technical network solutions
6. Some travel to sites may be required

Skills & Qualifications

1. Minimum of 5 years’ experience

Mandatory:

1. Data centre networking design/configuration/implementation,
2. (Azure) Cloud networking design/configuration/implementation,
3. Advanced level technical skill in Palo Alto, CheckPoint, and F5 technologies
4. Enterprise experience
5. Strong documentation and cross team collaboration skillset
6. Ability to travel if required
7. Must hold valid driver’s license

Desirable

1. Wireless Networks Cisco & Meraki
2. Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and Cisco ISE (Cisco Identity Services Engine)
3. Experience with Routing protocols MPLS and BGP
4. Operational technologies experience

Must be Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident OR NZ Citizen and be base in Brisbane. The client is offering 3 days office and 2 days working from home.

Talent International is searching for an experienced Enterprise Technical Data Strategy to join our State Government client based in Brisbane CBD on a contract until August 2024 + likely extensions.

// Deliver an enterprise data platform’s establishment
// Contract until August 2024 + likely extensions
// Brisbane CBD location – 2 days wfh

The role:

A talented professional is needed in this newly created role as an Enterprise Technical Data Specialist (ETDS) in the Insights Platform Program. Reporting to the program’s Data Architect – Enterprise Level, the role will assist in the development of foundation enterprise data entities, modelling of data, implementation of the Master Data Assets, oversee the technical architecture for the program.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with design and development of Enterprise Data Platform solution, working with the business teams, data teams, IT teams and external vendors;
• Work with the business and other team members (e.g., Business Analysts, Data Modelers, BI Analysts) to understand and review requirements and design fit-for-purpose enterprise data common model, data dictionary requirements and user-focused Power BI visualisations and reports;
• Review data common model design, warehouse and ETL design;
• Work with source system teams to define data agreements to meet development requirements;
• Ensure compliance with existing governance and management standards, and support the maturity of these standards;
  • Prepare, maintain and enhance technical documentation;
  • Assist in the prepare of project documentation required to progress the projects through assurance gates;
  • Support the development and implementation of a plan to transition on-premises Branch systems and processes (e.g., data warehouse) into Microsoft Azure, including building existing staff capability in the use of Azure resources;
• Provide technical leadership to the development team and serve as a key technical strategic advisor to Stream leads and senior officers to shape work plans, identify risks, consider cost implications and identify sustainable solutions.
• Reverse-engineering of legacy physical data models and transform them to target models using Information Architecture principles.
• Use contemporary tools to generate models and to import / export models to the target state environments.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in complex government change programs, (preferable data, ICT related)
• Experience operating within large and complex ICT programs of work.
• Extensive experience in data warehouse architecture, data modelling, database and ETL design;
• Extensive experience with solutions involving Microsoft Azure resources (e.g., Lake, Synapse), Databricks and Power BI – their individual and combined architectures;
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in designing, implementing and configuring Microsoft Azure products;
• Experience in transitioning existing on-premises systems and processes to Microsoft Azure;
• Demonstrated strong experience in designing and developing interactive reports in Microsoft Power BI;
• Proactive engagement and communication approach with business and technical stakeholders and team members;
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in data modelling principles, such as logical and conceptual data models
• Proficiency in using semantic models, business intelligence tools to represent insights
• Experience in database administration and software development tools and scripts
• A foundational knowledge of mathematical concepts and statistical analysis
• Experience with data modelling tools like Power Designer and Spark EA or a Cloud based data modelling tool
• Demonstrated experience in working with cloud-based data transformation, DevOps and DevOps Pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to self-manage with competing priorities.
• High attention to detail and well organised.
• Highly developed verbal communication skills with business and technical stakeholders.

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Samantha Burkin or Mats Rorvik on 07 3031 4522 or 07 3031 4512 or samantha.burkin@talentinternational.com or mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com
For a list of all vacant positions, please see our website www.talentinternational.com

Talent International is searching for an experienced Senior Change Manager to join our State Government client based in Brisbane CBD on a contract until October 2024 + likely extensions.

// Business Intelligence / Data program experience essential
// Contract until October 2024 + likely extensions
// Brisbane CBD location – 2 days wfh

The role:

You’ll join an Insights Platform Program to assist in the understanding, planning and delivery phases of this program. Individuals will be able to work with multiple, diverse stakeholder groups concurrently, and be able to self-manage with competing priorities. The position will assist the Program Leads in achieving program outcomes for business and technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other project members to undertake critical change analysis leading to the development of identified change plans (change, engagement, communication, learning, business readiness)
• In conjunction with other program team members, develop, deliver and or provide input into communication, engagement, training and support activities (e.g., draft communication materials)
• Conduct change impact workshops with impacted stakeholders including business and technical practitioners with focus on people, process, information and technology changes
• Synthesize all change management activities into easily digested, business relatable outputs
• Work with business partners to identify change resistance and mitigation actions to be implemented
• Ensure measurement processes are in place to track adoption, utilisation and proficiency of change
• Provide recommendations and activities to embed and sustain capabilities
• Identify and actively manage OCM (Organisational Change Management) dependencies, risks and opportunities; identify mitigation activities

Skills and Experience

• Experience in complex government change programs, (preferable data, ICT related)
• Demonstrated experience operating within large programs of work with a strong business transformation component
• Excellent stakeholder management and engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate with business and technical staff
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience working with multiple, diverse stakeholder groups concurrently.
• Demonstrated ability to self-manage with competing priorities.
• High attention to detail and well organised
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with both business and technical stakeholders

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Samantha Burkin or Mats Rorvik on 07 3031 4522 or 07 3031 4512 or samantha.burkin@talentinternational.com or mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com
For a list of all vacant positions, please see our website www.talentinternational.com

The client is based in Brisbane and would ideally like someone Brisbane based to work on site 4 days a week with 1 day a week work from home. However, for the right resource, they will entertain candidates based anywhere in Australia who can work fully remotely.

Our client is Australia’s leading integrated construction material manufacturer and contractor. A family business in operation now for over 100 years, they have grown and adapted, rising to the top of a competitive and dynamic market. Today, they employ over 2300 staff and are one of the largest manufacturers in Australia.

They have an existing Oracle environment mainly leveraging Oracle Cloud CX for CRM / Sales functionality. They are seeking to add Oracle Service capability to the existing environment, specifically deploying Oracle CX Service Customer Portal. As such we are seeking a Consultant that can provide functional guidance across both Oracle Sales & Service Applications.

Your duties will include:

• Provide specialty product knowledge in the Oracle Cloud CX Sales and Service applications
• Lead an implementation of Oracle CX Service Customer Portal
• Ownership for the support of allocated Oracle applications, including configuration, custom extensions, system integrations and reporting
• Work collaboratively with Oracle Support and implementation partners to troubleshoot issues and progress fixes
• Follow defined systems development methodologies and change management processes
• Analysis of complex business requirements and translation to robust documented Oracle solution designs
• Development and execution of unit and systems test plans
• Contribute to business systems roadmap and strategic planning
• Work collaboratively with Business Systems team members to deliver solutions
• Perform after hours duties as required

About You:

In order to be successful in this role, it is essential that you possess the following skills, knowledge and attributes:

• Minimum 5 years implementation experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion Applications and related Oracle PaaS services:
  • Implementation design and configuration for Cloud CX Sales and Service applications, ideally including CX Customer Portal
  • Reporting using Oracle Transaction Business Intelligence (OTBI)
  • Knowledge of system integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
  • Knowledge of security requirements for Oracle Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Thorough understanding of Oracle and financial accounting best practices
• Thorough understanding of the Oracle Fusion Applications data model to access required data
• Knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC) for extraction of data
• Demonstrated high level analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology or related field

It is desirable that some or all of the following skills, knowledge and attributes compliment your skill set:

• Experience with Oracle E-Business Applications R12
• Implementation of Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW)

The Benefits:

• Full-time permanent position
• Competitive salary commensurate with knowledge and experience
• Flexible working hours available
• Paid and unpaid leave entitlements as per the National Employment Standard (NES)
• Excellent employment conditions, stability and a commitment to career advancement for enthusiastic and motivated people

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, Talent and everything in-between, don’t hesitate to call Brid Coughlan on 0439 213 636 for a confidential discussion.

brid.coughlan@talentinternational.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brid-coughlan/

The role sits withing their Data & Technology division which are focused on investing in a modern data platform to drive better safety outcomes that save lives. The role will focus on Security Operations (SecOps) initiatives, building out additional security capability across their existing DevOps regime. SecOps experience is not a requirement of the role but we are looking for core DevOps skillset, building out CI/CD pipelines and utilising the Azure DevOps tech suite.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Participate and collaborate in a high performing SCRUM team to deliver on key BAU activities and milestones from the Project Roadmap, and Data Engineering Strategy.
• Demonstrate excellent judgement skills at interpreting business requirements, estimating workloads, prioritizing tasks, and managing time in the delivery of quality solutions to meet deadlines.
• Communicate well and respectfully through all written and verbal interactions.
• Conduct or facilitate feasibility, requirements gathering, user acceptance, demonstration, or other meetings with team and with customers.
• Provide technical guidance and be a role model to junior engineers.
• Research, design, develop and be accountable for an intuitive, fully automated deployment pipelines using CI/CD, test plans, and pipeline status dashboards.
• Propose and build automation and integration solutions needed to support the data engineering function.
• Operate within ITSM processes and integrate automation with processes as much as possible to develop highly efficient, easy to use deployment pipelines.
• Participate in rotating incident management duties which includes troubleshooting and resolving incidents, performing RCAs, configuring monitoring, and writing troubleshooting guides.
• Proactively remediate and document operational incidents, project risks, and impediments where possible or otherwise surface these items as appropriate to project managers and senior team members.
• Show initiative and provide academic-level technical research, POCs, and analysis when contributing to platform improvements, exploring new features, or conducting feasibility studies.

Skills and Capabilities

• Demonstrated extensive experience with deployment technologies: Azure DevOps, GIT, Bicep, YAML, etc
• Demonstrated extensive experience with interpreted languages: PowerShell, JavaScript, Python, etc
• Demonstrated extensive experience with Microsoft Azure
• Demonstrated experience with programming patterns: SOLID, GoF, Enterprise Software Architecture, etc
• Demonstrated experience with technical writing: Concept, UML, DFD, BPMN, etc
• Demonstrated experience with compiled languages: C# and Java
• Proven ability to communicate effectively through documentation and technology to shape human behaviour that can help themselves and adhere to process and security controls.
• Proven ability to work as part of a self-organising team to provide reliable, consistent, high-quality advice and project support.
• Well-developed understanding of deployment strategies and techniques such as CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-code, server-less deployments, containerisation, rollback, high availability releases, etc
• Well-developed understanding of testing methodologies such as unit tests, regression tests, integration tests, functional tests, acceptance tests, smoke tests, test plans, etc.

Additional benefits:

As it would be a permanent placement, there are other benefits on offer that focus on a healthy work / life balance:

1. Ability to participate in a 20-day work roster cycle which enables employees to accrue approx. 1 RDO day per month = up to 12 days additional leave per year.
2. Ability to accrue TOIL for approved additional hours worked.
3. Paid time off during the Christmas shutdown period without the deduction of annual leave during the client’s closure period.
4. Salary packaging options available including superannuation salary sacrifice with additional contributions made by the client for those who do salary sacrifice superannuation.
5. Paid parental leave and purchased leave options available.

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, Talent and everything in-between, don’t hesitate to call Brid Coughlan on 0439 213 636 for a confidential discussion.

Talent is searching for multiple Business Analysts to join a leading financial institution here in Brisbane and work on an exciting, new, multi-year project focussed on Protecting Confidential Member Information. You will be supported by a well established Senior Technical Business Analyst who will mentor you and provide exceptional support. We are seeking someone who is positive, IT savvy and hungry to learn and grow their career as a Technical Business Analyst.

• Junior-Mid Level BA Position (Technical) / IT Degree and/or exp. required
• Wide variety of Technologies & Stakeholders
• Fantastic Opportunity for Career Development

Responsibilities:

• Identify and analyze existing business processes, systems, and other functional requirements.
• Manage the development, facilitation, coordination, and communication of initiatives and strategies.
• Liaise with internal customers and stakeholders to review and monitor the effectiveness of tools, systems, methods, and standards.
• Gather, analyze, and translate business data into meaningful insights.
• Implement a structured project planning framework in accordance with approved standards, agile, and best practice methodologies.
• Ensure the confidentiality and security of member information through the implementation of robust security controls and practices.

About You:

• Demonstrated stakeholder engagement and well-developed communication skills at both the technical and business process levels.
• Strong prioritization skills and ability to pivot in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of agile and waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Cybersecurity and security controls experience is beneficial, reflecting our commitment to member data security and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Superannuation and Financial Services Industry is beneficial.

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Jackson Bruce on (07) 3221 3333 or via email at jackson.bruce@talentinternational.com.