We are partnering with a well-regarded financial services organisation seeking a Senior Capital Reporting Analyst for an initial 12-month contract.

The Senior Capital Reporting Analyst will support recurring capital and prudential reporting deliverables while contributing to reporting enhancements and regulatory initiatives. You will work across key Finance and risk-related functions to maintain reporting accuracy, strengthen controls and deliver clear analysis to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, review and analyse capital and regulatory reports.
• Support quarterly and annual Pillar 3 disclosures.
• Ensure reporting complies with APRA requirements and internal governance standards.
• Perform reconciliations, validation checks and quality-assurance reviews.
• Prepare capital reporting, analysis and insights for executive and Board-level stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Treasury and Audit to deliver accurate and timely reporting.
• Identify opportunities to automate and enhance existing reporting processes.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience within a Tier 1 bank, financial institution or prudential reporting environment.
• Direct experience in capital reporting, regulatory reporting, Finance Control, Treasury Finance or Financial Risk.
• Strong understanding of APRA prudential requirements, Basel frameworks and Pillar 3 disclosures.
• Experience preparing reporting and presentations for senior executives or Board-level stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of reporting governance, controls, reconciliations and assurance.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver both recurring BAU reporting and project-based initiatives.
• Experience improving or automating financial and regulatory reporting processes will be highly regarded.

If you are interested, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged to recruit a Tech Lead for a fast-growing Australian technology company operating at the intersection of fintech and payments

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you’ll have genuine influence over technical direction, product decisions and engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on.

Role Title: Senior Software Engineer

Salary: $170,000 – $180,000 + Super

Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney CBD | Hybrid Working (2 days in office)

Role Details:

As a senior member of the engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping architecture, reviewing code, mentoring engineers and delivering high-quality software across a modern technology stack.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll spend approximately 50% of your time building software and 50% of your time driving engineering excellence through collaboration, design reviews and technical decision-making.

Working closely with founders, product and engineering teams, you’ll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while helping scale a platform used by leading retail and consumer brands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver production-grade features across the stack, with a strong focus on backend development
• Lead code reviews and establish best practices across the engineering function
• Contribute to architecture and system design discussions
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions
• Drive adoption of modern AI-assisted development practices and tooling
• Mentor junior engineers and help elevate technical standards
• Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and optimisation

  Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer or Technical Lead
• Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally within Python-based environments
• Excellent Computer Science fundamentals including software design, algorithms and data structures
• Experience designing and building scalable production systems
• Strong code review and technical leadership capability
• Comfortable influencing technical direction and challenging ideas constructively
• Experience working in high-performing engineering environments
• Passion for leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity and quality

  Nice to Have:

• Experience with Python, Flask, FastAPI, React, React Native or TypeScript
• Experience with cloud-native or serverless architectures
• Strong SQL and database optimisation skills
• Exposure to e-commerce, payments or transactional platforms
• Experience working within recognised technology, product or data-driven organisations

  Additional Details & Benefits:

• High-impact role within a growing technology business
• Opportunity to influence both technical and product strategy
• Potential equity participation
• Hybrid and flexible working environment
• Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders
• Modern engineering culture with strong adoption of AI development tools
• Collaborative, high-performing team environment

  To Apply:

  If this sounds like your next opportunity, please click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your resume. For a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, contact Talent International.

Join a High-Performing Mortgage Brokerage | Eastern Suburbs | Up to $134,000 incl. super + benefits

The Business

This established and fast-growing mortgage brokerage is recognised as one of Australia’s leading firms, consistently delivering high-quality lending solutions and exceptional client outcomes.

With strong lender partnerships, a growing market presence, and an experienced leadership team, the business continues to expand year on year. Their success is driven by a high-performing internal team and a structured, scalable operating model.

The Opportunity

Due to sustained growth and increasing deal flow, an opportunity has arisen for a Credit Specialist / Credit Analyst to join their high-performing credit function.

This role offers genuine end-to-end exposure across residential lending transactions. You will take ownership of applications from initial credit assessment through to unconditional approval, working on complex scenarios while being supported by a dedicated offshore processing and settlements team.

This structure allows you to focus on high-value credit analysis, loan structuring, and client engagement rather than administrative tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage residential loan applications from submission through to approval
• Conduct detailed serviceability assessments and structure lending solutions
• Analyse client financials including tax returns, income statements and supporting documentation
• Prepare lending proposals and credit recommendations
• Liaise with brokers, lenders and internal stakeholders to progress deals efficiently
• Communicate directly with clients to manage documentation and expectations
• Maintain accuracy and attention to detail across multiple concurrent applications

The Team

You will join a collaborative, ambitious credit team led by an experienced manager who is focused on mentoring, development and scaling the function.

With strong operational support in place, credit specialists are empowered to focus on technical excellence and delivering outstanding client outcomes.

About You

• 2 + years’ experience in mortgage lending, credit analysis, loan processing or a similar role
• Strong understanding of serviceability calculations and loan structuring
• Confident interpreting financial statements, tax returns and income documentation
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage clients professionally
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
• Motivated, team-oriented and eager to grow within a high-performance environment

What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary package up to $134,000 including super
• Performance incentives
• Clear career progression pathway
• Strong and consistent deal pipeline
• High-performing, supportive team culture
• Eastern Suburbs office location

If you’re looking to step into a role where you can truly own your files, work alongside top-performing brokers, and grow your credit career within a leading brokerage, this opportunity is worth a conversation.

Note: Applicants must have AUS/NZ permanent residency or citizenship to be considered.

Program Scheduler – Federal Government

Scale by AVEC is looking for an experienced Program Scheduler to support the delivery of a large and complex Federal Government contract.

This is a hands-on scheduling role with responsibility for managing the program schedule end-to-end, providing clear visibility across deliverables, critical path, resources, dependencies and overall schedule performance.

We’re particularly interested in candidates who have worked across defence primes, military suppliers or similarly complex and highly regulated program environments.

Hands-on experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and Open Plan Professional (OPP) is highly desirable.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and manage the end-to-end program schedule for a large Federal Government contract.

• Develop and maintain complex schedules using Open Plan Professional (OPP).

• Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) to track and report program performance.

• Maintain visibility across contractual deliverables, milestones, dependencies and key dates.

• Undertake critical path analysis, identifying schedule slippage and emerging delivery risks.

• Clearly communicate schedule status to stakeholders, including where deliverables are behind plan or impacting the critical path.

• Develop practical mitigation and schedule recovery strategies to keep delivery on track.

• Manage schedule inputs across multiple program teams and stakeholders.

• Undertake resource planning and profiling, identifying capacity requirements and constraints.

• Produce detailed schedule performance, forecasting and progress reporting for Government stakeholders.

• Work closely with Program and Project Managers to provide accurate schedule intelligence and support decision-making.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Program Scheduler / Project Controls professional who is comfortable taking ownership of complex schedules and providing stakeholders with a clear view of program performance.

To be considered, you must have:

• Strong Program Scheduling / Project Controls experience within large, complex programs.

• Proven experience managing a large contract or program schedule end-to-end.

• Hands-on experience using Open Plan Professional (OPP).

• Strong experience with Earned Value Management (EVM).

• Experience developing and maintaining detailed integrated program schedules.

• Strong critical path, schedule variance, dependency and milestone analysis experience.

• Experience with resource planning, forecasting and profiling.

• Demonstrated ability to identify schedule slippage and develop effective mitigation and recovery plans.

• Experience producing schedule and performance reporting for Government stakeholders.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge inputs and clearly communicate schedule status.

• Experience within a defence prime, military supplier or similarly complex program environment will be highly regarded.

Working Arrangement

The role is structured around 16 business days of scheduled work per month, with the remaining business days on call as required.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced scheduler with strong EVM and OPP expertise to take ownership of a significant program schedule and provide the insight and direction required to keep a complex contract on track.

This opportunity is being managed by Scale by AVEC.

Lead Architect

Location: Sydney CBD
Employment Type: Permanent
Sector: Higher Education
Salary: Up to $160,000 plus super

An established Australian higher education organisation is undertaking significant digital transformation and is seeking an experienced Lead Architect to help shape its future technology landscape.

Bridging enterprise and solution architecture, you’ll provide architectural leadership across cloud, applications, integration, data and security while strengthening architecture governance across the organisation.

The Role

You will:

• Define and embed architecture governance, standards, frameworks and patterns.
• Lead solution architecture across major technology initiatives.
• Shape target-state architectures, technology roadmaps and strategic direction.
• Partner with integration leadership to evolve API, messaging and iPaaS architecture.
• Provide architectural direction across Azure, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hybrid environments.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Advise senior stakeholders on technology strategy, investment and solution options.
• Support business cases, tenders, procurement and vendor evaluations.
• Guide external architects, vendors and delivery partners.
• Mentor architecture team members and contribute to the maturity of the architecture practice.

About You

You will ideally bring:

• 10+ years’ technology architecture experience, including 5+ years in senior Solution, Enterprise, Principal or Lead Architecture roles.
• Strong Microsoft Azure and cloud architecture expertise.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or operating architecture governance.
• Strong enterprise integration experience across APIs, messaging, middleware and/or iPaaS.
• Broad architecture exposure across applications, data, security and infrastructure.
• Experience developing target-state architectures, roadmaps and architecture standards.
• Strong vendor, consultancy and senior stakeholder management experience.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentor architects or delivery teams.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or architecture certifications such as TOGAF are highly regarded.

Experience within higher education or another large, complex environment would be advantageous.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to move beyond project-level architecture and influence technology direction across an organisation. You’ll play a key role in shaping architecture governance, Azure/cloud strategy and enterprise integration as part of a major digital transformation.

Talent International is currently recruiting Senior Community & Stakeholder Engagement Officer to work for the NSW Government, based in Parramatta (Hybrid). This is a 6-month contract, with the possibility of extension, paying between $650 and $750/day + Super.

8 hours per day/ 40 hours per week (excluding break, no overtime will be paid – less than 6 hours will be half day)

Start Date: ASAP

About the role

The Senior Community & Stakeholder Engagement Officer plays a key role in delivering high-quality communication and engagement services across major government programs, projects and initiatives.

You will develop and implement communication and engagement strategies, stakeholder consultation, customer information and issues-management activities. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will help build trust, transparency and meaningful community participation.

The role partners closely with engagement colleagues, project teams and external stakeholders to deliver coordinated, inclusive and effective engagement activities that support project outcomes and strengthen community confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver corporate communications and stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
• Manage the communication and engagement needs of projects, programs and communities.
• Establish tools, systems and protocols to coordinate and report on key stakeholder engagement activities.
• Provide regular reporting and insights on stakeholder relationships, emerging issues and engagement outcomes.
• Provide strategic advice on communications, stakeholder concerns and issues management.
• Work with stakeholders to resolve significant issues and achieve positive outcomes.
• Coordinate day-to-day media activities and support ministerial and government liaison in collaboration with relevant teams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Promote open communication and deliver best-practice community and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
• Demonstrate strong leadership behaviours and a commitment to positive outcomes for customers, communities and stakeholders.

Essential requirements

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, such as media, communications or public relations, and/or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong experience in strategic communications, community engagement and stakeholder management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage complex or sensitive issues.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.

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.

We are seeking a Senior Databricks Engineer for an initial three-month contract with a leading Australian financial services organisation.

The successful candidate will help mature an existing Databricks platform into an enterprise-grade capability. This is a hands-on role focused on platform scalability, automation, governance and the reduction of technical debt.

Engagement details

• Three-month contract.
• Senior, hands-on engineering engagement.
• Immediate or near-term availability preferred.

Key responsibilities

• Design and establish a governed, domain-aligned Unity Catalog structure incorporating Bronze, Silver, Gold and Reporting layers.
• Support the migration from the organisation’s existing flat catalog structure to the new target-state architecture.
• Re-platform existing ingestion and transformation frameworks to align with the new catalog model.
• Develop metadata-driven, reusable and scalable data pipelines.
• Implement RBAC and ABAC controls across all catalog layers, ensuring least-privilege and domain-based access.
• Refresh the underlying AWS storage and security foundations, including S3 buckets, bucket policies, IAM roles and access controls.
• Maintain and extend Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code across the Databricks and AWS environments.
• Automate Databricks cluster provisioning and SQL Warehouse deployments, minimising manual configuration.
• Support a phased, low-risk migration that protects critical regulatory and business reporting workloads.
• Essential experience

Essential experience

• Strong commercial experience engineering and supporting enterprise Databricks platforms.
• Hands-on Databricks experience within AWS environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing Unity Catalog architectures.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse and medallion architecture, including Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers.
• Experience developing metadata-driven ingestion and transformation frameworks.
• Advanced Spark and PySpark engineering skills.
• Strong knowledge of Databricks governance, RBAC, ABAC and least-privilege security models.
• Practical AWS experience covering S3, bucket policies, IAM roles and secure cross-service access.

Highly desirable

• Experience within banking, payments, superannuation or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Knowledge of CPS 230 or other APRA-regulated reporting requirements.
• Experience supporting financial risk, regulatory or client SLA reporting.

If you are interested, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

Product Manager – Banking & Financial Services

Permanent | $100K-$110K Base + Benefits

Sydney NSW – Hybrid

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Product Manager to join an established, member-focused financial services organisation.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Pricing, you will play a key role in the development, enhancement and ongoing management of banking products and pricing initiatives. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys combining commercial thinking, analysis, stakeholder management and project delivery to improve products and customer outcomes.

The Role

You will support the end-to-end product life-cycle while working closely with stakeholders across the organisation to deliver product, pricing and customer experience improvements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the end-to-end management of banking products, from design and implementation through to optimisation and ongoing maintenance.
• Project manage product, fee and pricing change initiatives.
• Work closely with Operations, Distribution, Marketing, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Technology teams to deliver product improvements.
• Conduct product testing and support the successful implementation of system and product changes.
• Analyse customer insights, competitor activity and industry trends to identify opportunities and recommend improvements.
• Provide product expertise and support across key strategic and business projects.
• Manage internal product enquiries and support key external partnerships.

About You

We are looking for someone with a strong combination of product, commercial and analytical capability who is comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and priorities.

You will ideally bring:

• Experience in product management, product development, pricing, lending or a related financial services discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate insights into practical recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience within banking, lending or financial services will be highly regarded.
• A degree in Business, Marketing, Strategy or a related discipline is desirable.

Why Apply?

This is a great opportunity to gain exposure to strategic product and pricing initiatives while working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across a financial services organisation.

You’ll have the opportunity to further develop your commercial, analytical, product and project management capabilities, while contributing to products that deliver meaningful customer outcomes.

A competitive salary of $100K-$110K base is on offer, along with a range of employee benefits and leave initiatives.

Interested? Apply now for a confidential discussion.

Integration Developers – Multiple Opportunities

Sydney | Hybrid Working | NV1 Clearance Essential
4 positions available – Senior and Developer-level opportunities

We are currently seeking four Integration professionals to join a major technology environment based in Sydney. These opportunities will suit candidates with strong integration backgrounds across APIs, middleware, messaging and cloud technologies.

There are openings across different levels of seniority:

• 1 x Senior Integration Developer / Integration Architect
• 3 x Integration Developers

All positions are Sydney-based with hybrid working arrangements.

An active NV1 security clearance is essential for these opportunities.

Senior Integration Developer / Integration Architect – 1 Position

This is the senior technical role within the team, combining enterprise integration architecture with hands-on technical leadership. You will help define the organisation’s integration approach, establish standards and patterns, and provide technical direction to developers, architects and delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define and govern integration architecture across applications, platforms and external systems.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions across APIs, middleware, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Establish integration patterns, technical standards, reference architectures and governance practices.
• Lead architecture and solution design reviews and provide technical guidance to integration developers and delivery teams.
• Identify and address integration risks, interoperability challenges, performance issues and architectural constraints.
• Support modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Ensure appropriate security, authentication and authorisation approaches are incorporated across integration solutions.

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years’ experience across integration architecture, solution architecture and/or senior integration engineering.
• Strong experience with Azure Integration Services, MuleSoft, Boomi or equivalent integration technologies.
• Deep knowledge of REST and SOAP APIs, middleware, messaging, microservices, event-driven integration and data transformation.
• Experience designing solutions across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of secure integration, including authentication and authorisation.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and the ability to guide developers and influence technical decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Integration Developers – 3 Positions

We are also seeking three Integration Developers to join the delivery team. These positions are more hands-on development focused than the senior role and will suit integration specialists who enjoy designing, building, testing and supporting interfaces across complex technology environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain integrations and interfaces across applications and platforms.
• Build and support APIs, middleware and messaging solutions.
• Develop synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integrations.
• Implement REST, SOAP and message-based integrations, including associated data mappings and transformations.
• Work across cloud and hybrid integration environments.
• Troubleshoot integration failures and resolve performance, reliability and interoperability issues.
• Support testing, deployment and CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Maintain interface specifications, mappings and technical integration documentation.
• Work closely with senior technical resources, architects and delivery teams to implement integration designs and standards.

What we’re looking for

• Approximately 5+ years’ experience in integration development, middleware engineering or a related technical role.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Azure Integration Services, MuleSoft, Boomi or equivalent.
• Experience developing REST/SOAP APIs, middleware and messaging solutions.
• Knowledge of synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integration patterns.
• Strong data transformation and interface development skills.
• Experience working within cloud and hybrid environments.
• Exposure to automated testing, deployment and CI/CD practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a delivery-focused approach.

Essential Requirements

Across all four opportunities, candidates must:

• Be Sydney-based or able to work from Sydney under a hybrid working arrangement.
• Hold an active NV1 security clearance.
• Have strong experience within enterprise integration environments.
• Be comfortable collaborating across development, architecture and delivery teams.

These are excellent opportunities for integration professionals at different stages of their careers – from experienced hands-on developers through to senior specialists looking to take ownership of integration architecture and technical direction.

Job Summary/Introduction
We are seeking a Test Analyst to join a collaborative delivery environment on a long-term contract, with a likely chance of extension. The role offers MAx $575 per day including super, with Sydney preferred and other locations considered.

Applicants must hold a current NV1 AGSVA security clearance. Applicants without NV1 clearance will not be considered.

Detailed Job Description

We are looking for a Test Analyst with experience across functional and system testing to support the delivery of high-quality technology solutions.

Working closely with business analysts, developers, testers and business stakeholders, you will analyse requirements, develop test cases, execute testing and manage defects through to resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements and design test cases covering functional and non-functional requirements
• Execute functional, system, integration and regression testing
• Identify, log and track defects through to resolution
• Work closely with business analysts, developers and testers to clarify requirements and expected outcomes
• Prepare and maintain test cases, test data and test evidence
• Support UAT activities and assist business users throughout testing
• Participate in test planning, estimation and scheduling
• Ensure testing aligns with quality standards and delivery timelines
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes and practices

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience in functional and system testing
• Experience analysing requirements and developing detailed test cases
• Familiarity with defect and test management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
• Experience working within Agile or hybrid delivery environments
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Effective communication with technical and business stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving and issue-tracking skills

Rate
Max $575 per day including super.

Location & Working Arrangements
Sydney preferred, with other locations considered. Hybrid working arrangement requiring 3 days per week in the office.

Contract
Long-term contract opportunity with a likely chance of extension.

Security Clearance
A current NV1 AGSVA security clearance is mandatory. Applicants without an active NV1 AGSVA clearance will not be considered.

Job Summary/Introduction
We are seeking an experienced Database Engineer to support scalable, secure and reliable data solutions. This is a long-term contract opportunity with a likely chance of extension. Sydney is preferred, with other locations considered. Hybrid working requires 3 days per week in the office.

Applicants must hold a current NV1 AGSVA security clearance. Applicants without NV1 clearance will not be considered.

Detailed Job Description

As a Database Engineer, you will design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and integration solutions across secure data environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and data integration solutions
• Develop and optimise ETL/ELT processes across multiple data sources
• Work with data architects, analysts and downstream consumers to deliver reliable data solutions
• Implement batch and near-real-time data processing solutions
• Maintain data quality, reliability and platform performance
• Support cloud-based data platforms, data lakes and data warehouses
• Apply data security, privacy and access control requirements
• Troubleshoot data pipeline failures and performance issues
• Support automation, monitoring and continuous improvement

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in Data Engineering or similar data-focused engineering roles
• Strong ETL/ELT and data pipeline orchestration experience
• Strong SQL skills with relational and NoSQL database experience
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse or equivalent
• Experience with structured and semi-structured data
• Knowledge of data modelling and performance optimisation
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Location & Working Arrangements
Sydney preferred, with other locations considered. Hybrid working arrangement with 3 days per week in the office.

Contract
Long-term contract with a likely chance of extension.

Security Clearance
A current NV1 AGSVA security clearance is mandatory. Applicants without an active NV1 clearance will not be considered.

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.