Application Engineer // Contract

We are looking for an experienced Application Engineer to join a large, complex digital environment and play a key role in the design, development and delivery of enterprise applications.

This is a hands-on technical position suited to someone who can operate across application design, architecture and development, while working closely with solution architects, product teams, developers, vendors and other technical stakeholders.

Previous experience working within Local, State or Federal Government is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Create Technical Detailed Designs and provide input into Application Architecture and high-level solution designs.

• Assess the technical viability of proposed designs and recommend alternative approaches, considering security, performance, scalability and reuse.

• Provide hands-on development of common utilities and complex application functions, while acting as an escalation point for challenging technical issues.

• Perform code reviews and ensure solutions meet agreed development standards, quality requirements and documentation expectations.

• Provide technical leadership across frontend and backend application architecture and promote development best practices.

• Establish and maintain programming standards, tools and techniques across development teams.

• Work with product and technical teams to assess requirements, technical feasibility and application architecture options.

• Identify opportunities to improve software development processes and support the efficient delivery of high-quality releases.

• Coordinate application readiness across development, integration, testing, environments, vendors, release activities and operational support teams.

About You

You will bring strong application engineering and development experience within complex enterprise environments, along with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical, scalable solutions.

Ideally, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience working within Local, State or Federal Government environments.

• Strong application development experience across JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js and Java/Spring Boot.

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, APIs, integrations and application infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of cloud environments, CI/CD, testing, deployment and operational support.

• Experience designing, building, maintaining, migrating and supporting complex applications.

• Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, hypercare and BAU transition.

• Experience working across multiple technical teams, vendors and implementation partners.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Application Engineer who enjoys combining technical design with hands-on engineering and wants to contribute to complex, high-profile digital solutions within a government environment.

2-year fixed-term opportunity | Competitive salary package

North Ryde, Sydney | Hybrid working – 3 days onsite

Our client, a leading healthcare organisation, is undertaking a major digital transformation designed to improve clinical care, operational performance and patient experiences.

Central to this transformation is a landmark Electronic Medical Record (EMR) program and the modernisation of the broader health technology landscape. They are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect – Healthcare to shape the enterprise-wide technology strategy and ensure platforms, investments and roadmaps support the organisation’s long-term vision.

The opportunity

Reporting to the Director of IT Architecture, you will provide strategic architectural leadership across the healthcare domain. You will help simplify a complex technology environment, establish clear target-state architecture and provide governance and assurance across major digital programs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining and communicating the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards and strategic roadmaps
• Developing current-state, target-state and transition architectures and capability models
• Providing architectural leadership for the organisation’s EMR transformation and other major digital health initiatives
• Reviewing solution architectures, procurements and technology investments for alignment with enterprise standards
• Contributing to architecture governance boards and design authorities
• Managing architectural risks, exceptions and technical debt in a transparent and controlled manner
• Partnering with technology and business teams to rationalise, modernise and optimise the technology landscape
• Ensuring architecture decisions address security, privacy, compliance, resilience and sustainability
• Mentoring solution architects, domain architects and technical leaders to strengthen architecture capability and consistency

About you

You are an accomplished Enterprise Architect with significant experience in healthcare and a strong understanding of hospital operations, clinical workflows and digital health technologies.

You combine strategic thinking with commercial awareness and can translate complex business requirements into practical architecture standards, roadmaps and investment decisions. You are also a credible and collaborative influencer who can build alignment across clinical, operational, technology and executive stakeholder groups.

You will ideally bring:

• Extensive enterprise architecture or senior architecture experience within healthcare
• Knowledge of hospital operations, clinical workflows and the digital health landscape
• Experience supporting major EMR, clinical platform or healthcare transformation programs
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance and strategic planning
• TOGAF certification or training, which will be highly regarded
• Broad knowledge of clinical platforms, cloud, data, integration and business architecture
• Experience with process improvement and customer or patient journey mapping
• Proven architecture governance and assurance experience, including solution-design reviews and exception management
• The ability to balance business value, risk, cost, complexity and delivery feasibility
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience

Why join?

This is a rare opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology strategy while contributing to a high-profile transformation that will directly support better healthcare delivery and patient experiences.

Benefits include:

• A competitive salary package
• 17% superannuation
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements
• Extensive learning and professional development opportunities
• Subsidised onsite parking
• Onsite childcare and school-holiday care options
• Discounted health insurance
• Access to onsite health, fitness and wellbeing facilities
• Confidential employee assistance services

This is a 2-year fixed-term appointment based in North Ryde, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.

If you are an experienced healthcare architect ready to shape a significant digital health transformation, we would welcome your application.

Apply now with your résumé and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant enterprise architecture and healthcare experience.

Our client is committed to creating a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. The successful candidate will be required to complete relevant pre-employment checks.

Firewall Engineer – Network Security

Job Summary/Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Firewall Engineer to join a Sydney-based client on a 6 month contract. You will support firewall changes and rules across data centre environments. Strong hands-on firewall and data centre
experience is essential.

Detailed Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Firewall Engineer – Network Security to join our client on a 6 month contract.
This is a hands-on technical role focused on implementing and supporting firewall changes across data centre environments. You will manage firewall rules, troubleshoot connectivity issues and work closely with Network, Security and Infrastructure teams.

Previous experience supporting firewalls within data centre environments is essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement firewall changes across data centre environments
• Create, modify and remove firewall rules and policies
• Support firewall rule requests and change activities
• Review existing firewall rules and configurations
• Troubleshoot firewall and network connectivity issues
• Manage NAT, access and security policies
• Perform firewall rule reviews, clean-up and optimisation
• Investigate incidents relating to firewall policies and connectivity
• Assess firewall change requests and identify potential risks or impacts
• Test and validate firewall changes following implementation
• Work closely with Network, Security, Infrastructure and Data Centre teams
• Follow established change management and security processes
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and change records

Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience as a Firewall or Network Security Engineer
• Data centre networking and firewall experience is essential
• Strong experience configuring and supporting enterprise firewalls
• Experience managing firewall rules, policies and change requests
• Good understanding of data centre network environments
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, NAT, VPNs, ports and network protocols
• Experience troubleshooting complex firewall and connectivity issues
• Experience with enterprise firewall technologies such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point or Cisco
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience working within structured change management environments
• Good communication and documentation skills

Contract Details

• 6 month contract
• Sydney-based
• Hybrid – 2-3 days onsite per week
• No requirement to physically attend the data centres

A leading Australian financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer to help modernise the way large-scale networks are engineered and operated.

In this software-first role, you will design, deploy and enhance the platforms, automation frameworks and internal services that underpin modern network engineering. You will turn complex workflows into scalable, reliable solutions that improve efficiency and resilience.

Working closely with network engineers, you will solve operational challenges and strengthen automation and testing capabilities. In an AI-assisted environment, you will remain accountable for problem definition, critical review and end-to-end validation.

To be successful in this role you will need:

Experience building applications and automation solutions in the networking domain

Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform, including custom plugins/modules and infrastructure/configuration-as-code

Proficiency in Python or a similar language, with sound code review, pull request and problem-solving practices

Solid knowledge of Linux and container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes

Experience developing testing strategies for robust automation frameworks and platforms

Knowledge of build and packaging systems, dependency management and CI/CD pipelines, preferably Jenkins

Ability to write database queries and working knowledge of MongoDB

Strong collaboration skills and the ability to translate network challenges into reliable tools and services

Flexible work arrangements, varied leave options and tailored development opportunities are on offer. To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online today!

SolarWinds Specialist – Infrastructure & Network Monitoring

Job Summary/Introduction

We are looking for an experienced SolarWinds Specialist with a strong infrastructure and network monitoring background to join a Sydney-based client on a 12 month contract. This role will focus on managing, supporting and improving the SolarWinds monitoring environment.

Detailed Job Description

We are seeking an experienced SolarWinds Specialist – Infrastructure & Network Monitoring to join our client on an initial 12 month contract.

You will be responsible for supporting, administering and optimising the SolarWinds platform, providing effective monitoring and visibility across network and infrastructure environments.

This role would suit someone with around 4-5 years of hands-on SolarWinds experience who has a strong understanding of network and infrastructure monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and support the SolarWinds monitoring platform
• Configure and manage network and infrastructure monitoring
• Build and maintain alerts, dashboards and reports
• Monitor network devices, servers and infrastructure performance
• Onboard new devices, servers and infrastructure into SolarWinds
• Investigate and troubleshoot monitoring, availability and performance issues
• Review and optimise alerting thresholds to improve monitoring effectiveness
• Identify monitoring gaps and recommend improvements
• Support SolarWinds upgrades, patching and platform maintenance
• Work with Network, Infrastructure and Operations teams to resolve technical issues
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures
• Provide SolarWinds technical expertise and best-practice recommendations

Skills & Experience

• 4-5 years of hands-on SolarWinds experience
• Strong experience administering and configuring SolarWinds
• Experience with SolarWinds modules such as NPM, NCM, SAM or similar
• Strong understanding of network and infrastructure monitoring
• Good knowledge of networking concepts, SNMP, WMI and monitoring protocols
• Experience monitoring servers, network devices and infrastructure services
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience creating alerts, dashboards and reporting
• Good understanding of Windows Server and general infrastructure environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical stakeholders

Contract Details

• 12 month contract
• Sydney-based
• Hybrid working arrangement
• 2-3 days onsite per week

This is a great opportunity for a hands-on SolarWinds specialist who enjoys working across network and infrastructure environments and improving monitoring capability.

Principal AI Engineer

12 Month Contract | $1,200-$1,300/day + Super | Sydney Inner West | NSW Government

Are you an experienced AI Engineer looking to work on one of the most exciting AI-led transformation programs in the NSW Government?

We’re seeking a Principal AI Engineer to join a high-performing team delivering a large-scale enterprise modernisation initiative. This is a genuinely hands-on role where you’ll leverage AI-assisted engineering to transform decades-old legacy applications into modern cloud-native solutions.

If you’re passionate about building with AI-not just talking about it-this is an opportunity to work at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption.

The Opportunity:

You’ll play a key role in delivering an AI-driven application modernisation program, using modern engineering practices and AI tooling to accelerate the migration of critical enterprise systems into AWS.

Working within a small, highly technical team, you’ll collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects, AI specialists and subject matter experts to deliver scalable, modern applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and deliver modern full-stack applications using AI-assisted engineering approaches.
• Apply AI tools and frameworks to accelerate software development and legacy code transformation.
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs and modern frontend applications.
• Build cloud-native solutions within an AWS environment.
• Collaborate with architects and technical SMEs to translate complex legacy functionality into modern applications.
• Contribute to engineering standards, automation and best practices across the program.

You’ll bring a strong software engineering background combined with practical experience applying AI throughout the development lifecycle:

• Extensive experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer.
• Hands-on experience building solutions using AI engineering tools and techniques.
• Strong backend development skills.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks.
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS.
• Experience building APIs and distributed applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills.

Highly Regarded:

• Experience modernising legacy applications.
• Exposure to AI-assisted code migration or software transformation.
• Experience working in large enterprise or government environments.

What’s on Offer

• 12-month contract
• $1,200-$1,300 per day + Super
• Hybrid working arrangement (Eveleigh office)
• Work on one of NSW Government’s most innovative AI transformation programs.
• Join a collaborative, highly technical engineering team.
• Opportunity to shape how AI is used to modernise enterprise technology at scale.

If you’re an experienced engineer ready to work on meaningful AI transformation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact Zane Khan at Talent International for a confidential discussion.

Zane Khan zane.khan@talentinternational.com

A leading global financial services organisation is undertaking a major multi-year platform migration and client onboarding program across its custody and asset servicing business.

They are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to play a key role in shaping high-level solutions for new clients, product offerings, regulatory initiatives and business change within a complex, highly governed technology environment.

You will join an established Solution Architecture team and work closely with clients, operations, business analysts, delivery teams and local and global architecture authorities. The role will focus on understanding client operating models, identifying capability gaps and defining practical solutions that fit within the organisation’s existing architecture.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Strong Solution Architecture experience within large, complex enterprise environments
• Knowledge of custody, fund administration, asset management or financial services operations (front office experience within a wealth management provider will also be considered)
• Experience translating business and client requirements into high-level solution designs
• Strong business acumen, stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Experience identifying capability gaps, impacted systems and delivery requirements
• Understanding of middle and back-office functions such as unit pricing, tax reporting, registries or asset servicing
• Ability to design within existing architecture and strict technology governance constraints
• Experience presenting solutions to design authorities and senior stakeholders
• A willingness to develop knowledge across new products, asset classes and operational domains

This is a Sydney-based role requiring three days per week in the office. A long-term contract and attractive daily rate are on offer for the right candidate.

AI Program Delivery Lead – Enterprise Modernisation

Contract: Initial 12 Months

Location: Eveleigh, Sydney
Working arrangement: Initially fully onsite, transitioning to 3 days onsite / 2 days WFH

We’re seeking an experienced AI Program Delivery Lead to join a major enterprise modernisation program, helping transform a large-scale legacy platform using AI-assisted engineering.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-management position. You’ll lead delivery of an AI modernisation workstream while remaining close to the code-building, reviewing and improving an AI-assisted translation pipeline that converts legacy applications into modern, cloud-native solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead technical delivery, sequencing, priorities and engineering standards.
• Build and enhance AI/LLM pipelines, agent skills, prompts, context engineering and evaluation frameworks.
• Deliver production solutions using Vue 3, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQL/Db2 and Terraform.
• Guide engineers through design, code reviews and production-readiness decisions.
• Own quality and validation standards, including automated testing and CI/CD gates.
• Coordinate across engineering, architecture, cyber, platform and business stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns, runbooks and delivery practices.
  What we’re looking for
• 8-12+ years of production software engineering experience with demonstrated technical delivery leadership.
• Strong hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic AI/coding tools in real-world delivery environments.
• Production experience with RAG, vector search, embeddings, agentic orchestration, prompt/context engineering and AI evaluation.
• Strong full-stack capability across Vue 3, TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs and serverless AWS.
• Strong SQL, cloud, IaC/Terraform, CI/CD and automated testing experience.
• Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on and accountable for production outcomes.
  Highly regarded: IBM i/iSeries, RPG/CL/DDS, Db2, Python, identity technologies, change data capture, or large-scale legacy modernisation experience.

This is an opportunity to help scale a proven AI-assisted engineering capability across a significant enterprise transformation. If you’re an experienced technical lead who can combine hands-on AI engineering, full-stack development and delivery leadership, we’d like to hear from you.

Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, has been engaged by our client, a leading national logistics organisation. We are seeking multiple Business Development Managers to join their growing NSW sales team.

These are newly created opportunities due to continued growth, with three positions available in Sydney, supporting different industry verticals across healthcare, government, retail, fashion and industrial markets.

Role Title: Business Development Manager (3 Opportunities)

Opportunity: Permanent Career Opportunity

Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney, Hybrid

Salary: Up to $150,000 + Uncapped Commission + annual accelerators

Client Industry: Transport & Logistics

Role Details:

• Drive new business growth across NSW within a leading national transport/logistics provider.
• Build a strong pipeline through proactive prospecting, networking and strategic business development activities.
• Sell a broad suite of logistics solutions
• Conduct new business meetings with prospective customers across a broad range of industry sectors
• Work collaboratively with Account Managers and internal operational teams to transition new customers following onboarding.
• Manage complex sales opportunities, tenders and strategic customer engagements from initial prospecting through to contract signing.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Business Development, ideally within the transport and logistics industry.
• Demonstrated success winning new business and consistently achieving sales targets.
• Experience building relationships with enterprise and mid market customers.
• Strategic sales approach with strong negotiation and solution selling skills.
• Experience using Salesforce or a similar CRM platform is highly desirable.
• Strong commercial acumen, resilience and a genuine hunter mentality.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build rapport quickly and confidently engage senior decision makers.

Additional Details & Benefits:

• Join one of Australia’s leading transport and logistics providers with a comprehensive national network and market leading service offering.
• Uncapped commission structure with annual accelerators
• Comprehensive onboarding program, ongoing coaching and sales training.
• Genuine career progression opportunities into Strategic Account Management, Sales Leadership and Operational Management.
• Collaborative and supportive culture with experienced leaders who have built long term careers within the business.
• Flexible working environment with autonomy to manage your own schedule while meeting customer commitments.

Data Architect // Healthcare // Fixed Term Opportunity

Two-year fixed-term opportunity | Hybrid working | Major digital health transformation

A leading private healthcare organisation is seeking an experienced Data Architect to play an important role in shaping its future data environment.

Working across major clinical and digital transformation initiatives, you’ll define target-state data architecture and help turn complex clinical, operational and reporting requirements into practical, future-ready solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Define and maintain data architecture across clinical and operational environments.
• Support major clinical systems, electronic medical record and health data platform initiatives.
• Develop practical roadmaps for data migration, integration and legacy-system transition.
• Establish data and integration patterns using healthcare standards such as FHIR and HL7.
• Work closely with clinical, business and technology stakeholders.
• Help strengthen data governance, quality, privacy and security practices.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated data architecture experience within the healthcare industry.
• Experience with clinical systems, EMRs and health data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, governance and integration.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards, including FHIR and HL7.
• Experience working with sensitive health information and privacy requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and problem-solving skills.

Knowledge of SNOMED CT and ICD-10 would be highly regarded.

This is an excellent opportunity to influence a significant digital health transformation and help create a modern data environment that supports better patient care, research and organisational decision-making.

Previous healthcare industry experience is essential for this position.

SAP HCM Project Manager

Parramatta/Sydney Olympic Park – Sydney | Hybrid
Contract to June 2027 with a view to extend

We’re partnering with a large and well-established public sector organisation embarking on a significant enterprise transformation program. As part of this strategic initiative, an opportunity exists for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of a major SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) Recruitment & On-boarding project.

This is a high-profile role delivering a contemporary recruitment and on-boarding solution that will streamline business processes, improve user experience and support a large, complex workforce.

The Role

Reporting into the Program Director, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a business-critical SAP SuccessFactors HCM project, overseeing planning, governance, implementation and transition into business-as-usual.

You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, external vendors and the PMO to ensure successful project outcomes while managing scope, schedule, budget, quality and risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large Recruitment & On-boarding transformation project.
• Manage project planning, governance, budgeting, scheduling and reporting.
• Engage and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and external vendors.
• Oversee systems integration, business readiness and transition to operational support.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies and financial performance.
• Ensure delivery aligns with organisational governance, compliance and quality standards.
• Drive continuous improvement and identify opportunities to optimise project outcomes.

About You

To be successful, you’ll bring:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale ERP or enterprise ICT projects.
• Experience implementing Recruitment, On-boarding or SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise HR platforms, SAP ECC or integrated HR ecosystems.
• Experience managing systems integration, data migration and business process transformation.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated vendor and contract management experience.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience managing project financials, governance and benefits realisation.
• PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent project management certification is highly regarded.
• Advanced Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office skills.

Interested?

If you’re an experienced Project Manager with a strong background delivering ERP or SAP SuccessFactors HCM transformation projects and enjoy leading complex enterprise initiatives, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact us for a confidential discussion about this exciting opportunity.

Business Continuity Planning Specialist

Location: Sydney, NSW
Requirement: NV1 Security clearance is mandatory for this position
Engagement: 3-month contract (likliehood of extension)
Rate: Up to $825/day

Role Description:

An exciting opportunity for a Business Continuity Specialist to join a large enterprise on a short-term contract with a high likelihood of extension.

Working across business and technology teams, you’ll be responsible for developing and enhancing the organisation’s Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework, conducting Business Impact Assessments (BIAs), coordinating disaster recovery and crisis management activities, and ensuring the organisation is well prepared to respond to disruptive events.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide Business Continuity Plans and frameworks.
• Conduct Business Impact Assessments (BIAs) and risk assessments.
• Develop disaster recovery, crisis management and recovery strategies.
• Coordinate business continuity testing, simulations and training.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to improve operational resilience.
• Maintain BCM documentation, governance and compliance with industry standards.

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in Business Continuity, Operational Resilience or Disaster Recovery.
• Strong experience conducting BIAs and risk assessments.
• Knowledge of business continuity frameworks such as ISO 22301 or NIST.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Relevant certifications (CBCP, ISO 22301 or similar) highly regarded.

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HOLD NV1 SECURITY CLEARANCE, YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION