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.

Cyber Security Change Lead

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

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

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

Initial contract through to 30 June 2027

What You’ll Be Doing

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

About You

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

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

You will ideally bring:

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

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

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

ServiceNow Architect

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

Senior ServiceNow Developer

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

ServiceNow Developer

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

Junior ServiceNow Developers

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

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

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

Test Analyst

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

Role details:

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

Key responsibilities:

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

What we’re looking for:

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

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