In proud partnership with Water New Zealand, we’re seeking an experienced communications expert to lead and enhance our communications function. This is a key role in the team, where you’ll work closely with the CEO in an organisation that provides leadership, knowledge sharing and enhances expertise to uphold the mana of water for Aotearoa New Zealand.

About Water New Zealand

‘Ka ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora ngā tāngata’
‘If the water is healthy, the land is healthy, the people are healthy’

Water New Zealand is a membership organisation on an exciting journey of growth. They provide leadership in the sector through collaboration, professional development, and networking. As the largest water industry body in Aotearoa New Zealand, they represent water management professionals and organisations promoting the sustainable management and development of the water environment.

About the role

The Communications Manager will strategically manage and enhance the communication effort. A member of the senior leadership team, you’ll contribute strategically, whilst also guiding the delivery of the annual communication plan’s activity, oversee the publication of Water New Zealand’s key assets, Water Journal, and lead, enhance and monitor the media plan.

You’ll get to:

* contribute strategically at the senior leadership table, providing insights and expertise into strategic goals and contributing to the annual operating plan
* develop and deliver the communication strategy
* manage the media plan – including strategy, proactive and reactive media, and monitoring
* guide the communications activities across the organisation, producing a range of communications assets and activities – from the Annual Review to podcasts
* work with the CEO to lead and champion the voice of Water New Zealand in the wider sector.

About you

You’ll be an experienced communications professional equally happy working strategically and contributing to the overall organisation, and rolling up your sleeves and managing media and general communications activity. We anticipate you’ll have at least seven years’ experience in journalism or corporate or public sector communications, and a tertiary qualification. Experience in water or infrastructure, would be advantageous.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

* experience working at both the strategic and tactical levels within the communications sphere – and across a range of publication types and mediums
* hands on reactive and proactive media work
* experience providing clear, sound strategic and practical guidance to senior people on complex, technical and/or ambiguous issues
* the ability to manage multiple pieces of work at any one time
* high level idea generation and writing abilities
* the ability to build positive relationships at all levels across the sector.
You’ll thrive being part of a small collaborative team, be inquisitive and curious, and keen to be a champion of our work and the sector.

In return

In return for your expertise, you can expect to enjoy:

* four weeks annual leave, plus four days over the festive season
* opportunities to attend sector-related events and conferences to grow your networks and expertise
* people-centred leadership in a values-driven environment where your skills, ideas, and voice are truly valued
* a collaborative positive team environment – passionate about making a meaningful difference in the water sector across Aotearoa.

This role is based in our central Wellington office.

If this sounds like the role you’ve been waiting for, we want to hear from you! Apply now by submitting your cover letter and CV, no later than Sunday 5 July.

For any enquiries or a copy of the job description, please contact John Keith john.keith@talentinternational.com or Katie Kemp katie.kemp@talentinternational.com now!

Senior Solution Architect

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to play a key role in a large, complex transformation programme. This position will lead strategic architecture activities within a major discovery and planning work stream focused on modernising critical enterprise platforms and enabling long-term business transformation.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future-state architecture of a large-scale organisation undertaking a multi-year modernisation journey. Working alongside senior business and technology leaders, you will provide strategic architectural direction, define transition states, establish governance frameworks, and ensure alignment between business objectives and technology delivery.

About the role:

You will be joining a well-established transformation programme that is focused on replacing legacy core systems with modern, cloud-based platforms. The focus now is centred on strategic architecture, planning, governance, and guiding the organisation through future-state transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic architecture activities across major transformation initiatives

• Define target-state and transition-state architectures that support long-term business objectives

• Develop architecture road-maps and strategic plans to guide programme delivery

• Establish and maintain architectural governance and decision-making frameworks

• Provide architectural leadership across complex, evolving environments

• Partner with senior stakeholders across business and technology teams

• Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, risk, performance, and operational requirements

• Drive alignment between enterprise strategy, architecture, and programme delivery

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes

• Previous experience working within Financial Services, Banking, or Insurance environments.

• Strong background in architecture strategy, road-map development, and governance

• Experience defining future-state and transition-state architectures

• Ability to operate effectively in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

• Strong understanding of integration architecture, data architecture, and cloud platforms

• Experience incorporating security, compliance, and operational considerations into architectural decisions

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills

Highly Desirable

• Experience working on core banking, core ledger, or large-scale platform modernisation programmes

• Experience within enterprise-level transformation initiatives involving legacy system replacement

• Exposure to modern cloud-based architecture environments

This role would suit an architect who enjoys working at a strategic level, influencing enterprise direction, and helping organisations navigate complex transformation journeys while balancing business outcomes, technology objectives, and delivery realities.

If this sounds like you Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion to learn more about the opportunity: email Amber at amber.shaw@talentinternational.com

We are partnering with a highly respected global technology services organisation to secure several Azure Cloud Operations Engineers for a large-scale enterprise cloud environment based in Auckland.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing cloud platform team supporting complex Azure environments, cloud transformation initiatives, and ongoing migration activities within a large enterprise setting.

We’re looking for engineers who enjoy getting hands-on, solving problems, automating repetitive tasks, and supporting production cloud platforms. This is not an architecture-only role, we’re seeking practical engineers who can quickly become productive and contribute from day one.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting and maintaining enterprise Azure environments
• Assisting with cloud migration and modernisation initiatives
• Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions
• Troubleshooting production issues and supporting operational activities
• Contributing to platform reliability, performance and security
• Working closely with internal engineering teams and stakeholders
• Supporting automation, continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives
• Participating in an on-call support roster

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on Azure infrastructure experience across:
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Compute
  • Storage
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Azure DevOps experience including CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Experience supporting production cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capability
• Experience working within enterprise-scale environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Highly Desirable

• Azure migration or cloud transformation experience
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• PowerShell, Azure CLI or Python scripting
• Azure governance and landing zone experience
• Monitoring and observability tooling
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Managed services or large enterprise support environments

Personal Attributes

• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Self-sufficient and proactive
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Passionate about automation and continuous improvement
• Eager to learn and adopt modern engineering practices

What’s On Offer

• Initial 6-month contract (Highly likely to extend)
• Multiple positions available
• Auckland-based opportunity
• Hybrid working environment
• Opportunity to work on large-scale Azure transformation and cloud operations initiatives
• Exposure to modern cloud engineering practices and technologies
• Potential for extension beyond the initial contract term

Eligibility

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

If you’re an Azure Cloud Engineer, Cloud Operations Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer with strong Azure experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity please apply.

Mō mātou | About LGNZ

Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) provides influence, connection and support to local government. They represent the national interests of councils.

They advocate for local government on critical issues, decode policy and make submissions. They connect members through networks, sector events and a must-attend annual conference. And they lead best practice in local government as well as building council capability through learning, development and consulting.

Te āhua o te tūrunga | The nature of the role

Working closely with the Director Commercial and Operations, you will drive LGNZ’s commercial strategy, creating value for member councils while supporting the organisation’s strategic priorities and growth objectives.

You will lead the delivery and continuous improvement of two nationally significant programmes, Road Efficiency Group (REG) and Te Korowai (LGNZ’s local government excellence programme), while identifying new partnership and commercial opportunities that strengthen LGNZ’s impact across the local government sector.

This is a highly visible role requiring a blend of commercial acumen, programme leadership and relationship management. Working closely with council leaders, industry partners and key stakeholders, you will help shape initiatives that build capability, drive performance and support the future success of local government throughout Aotearoa.

Ngā tino pūkenga me wheako | Essential knowledge, skills and experience

The right person for this role will be an expert when it comes to relationship management, with significant experience delivering projects, programmes or commercial initiatives that have achieved measurable outcomes.

What we will look for includes:

• An exceptional communicator, who utilises their listening skills to draw out needs and translate them into deliverable opportunities.
• Demonstrated success identifying, developing and growing commercial opportunities and partnerships.
• Proven experience delivering complex projects or programmes, balancing strategic objectives with operational execution.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence senior leaders across diverse environments.
• Strong analytical and judgement skills, comfortable navigating ambiguity and developing practical solutions.
• A proactive and results-oriented approach, with the confidence to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience working in, or with local government, and a strong understanding of local government operations and delivery would be preferred.

Tā mātou e tuku | What’s on offer

LGNZ takes the opinions and needs of their people seriously. LGNZ people say that they appreciate working in an environment that is supportive, flexible, creative, positive and fun. They’ve identified that the success of the team depends on feeling connected, appreciated, inspired, curious, optimistic and supported. These are real sentiments identified by the people who work for LGNZ.

Other benefits you will enjoy:

• 5 weeks of annual leave
• An additional 3 LGNZ days of leave between Christmas and New Year
• A genuinely flexible working environment
• Modern offices in the Cuba Quarter
• Subsidised health insurance

Applications for this role will be reviewed as they are received and close at 9.00am Monday 6 July 2026.

Please do not delay – click APPLY NOW and submit your CV and cover letter.

For a copy of the Position Description or a confidential discussion, please contact John Keith on 021 205 3252 or john.keith@talentinternational.com.

All applications will be acknowledged electronically.

Opportunity knocks…

Join our client’s team on a 6 month fixed-term basis, with the potential to extend into a longer-term engagement. In this role, you’ll work within a complex environment to help improve data consistency, definitions, and usage across the business, so teams can trust the data they rely on, and the wider organisation can use it confidently.

Why you’re special…

• You are an experienced Business Analyst with strong data experience, or a Data Analyst with excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including experience capturing and analysing requirements.
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders to define business rules and data standards.
• You have strong analytical skills, with experience working in complex or large-scale environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?

• Join a great Auckland brand, as part of a close-knit team.
• Play a crucial role in identifying opportunities for improvement and recommendations to improve data quality and governance.
• A 6 month engagement that has potential to be extended in the longer term.

Please note we can only consider candidates in NZ with relevant working rights for this role.

If you’re excited by the challenge of improving data quality, standardising key definitions, and bridging business needs with technical delivery, apply now.

Identity Engineer – 12-Month Contract | Auckland CBD

A hands-on contract opportunity for an experienced Identity Engineer to support the modernisation of a large-scale workforce identity environment.

You’ll work closely with Application Owners, Identity Architecture, and Security to improve how identity integrates across systems during cloud migration, and to strengthen identity and access management controls, including Identity Governance.

What you’ll be doing

• Modernising workforce identity capabilities and supporting cloud integration across enterprise systems
• Implementing and improving IAM controls, including Identity Governance
• Partnering with security and architecture teams to uplift authentication, federation, and access standards
• Supporting secure access outcomes across the identity lifecycle (including privileged access and access risk)

What we’re looking for

• Strong end-to-end IAM / workforce identity experience (delivery-focused, not just advisory)
• Practical experience across:
  • Privileged access
  • Federation
  • Authentication standards
  • Access risk concepts (e.g., toxic access combinations)
• Proven ability to deliver identity solutions as part of broader enterprise platforms and programs
• Confident stakeholder engagement across technical and business teams

Environment

• Microsoft-centric workforce identity stack: Entra ID and Azure supporting ~10,000 users
• Potential opportunity to expand into customer identity over time (evolving Optimal capability supporting ~500,000 users)

If this is something you are interested in APPLY now to be considered, or reach out to Amber at amber.shaw@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Senior Project Coordinator – 12 Month Contract
Auckland | Competitive Contract Rate

Join a leading financial services client and play a key role supporting the delivery of multiple strategic projects within a complex and fast-paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Coordinator who thrives on stakeholder engagement, governance, and keeping projects on track.

What’s in it for you?

✅ 12-month contract with a leading financial services organisation
✅ Work across multiple high-profile projects with experienced delivery teams

About the role

You will work closely with Project Managers, delivery teams, and key stakeholders to coordinate project activities, maintain governance standards, manage reporting, and ensure successful project outcomes.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years’ Project/Programme Coordination experience in NZ
• Strong knowledge of project governance and delivery frameworks
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent projects
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong financial tracking and reporting capability
• Advanced experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Proactive, organised, and able to work autonomously
• Banking or Financial Services experience highly desirable

Apply now

If you’re an experienced Project Coordinator looking for your next contract opportunity within a leading organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Talent’s partnering with the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum to recruit a Business Support Coordinator for their small central Wellington team.

This is a practical, detail-focused role for someone who enjoys accurate systems work, well-run processes and being a trusted support person across a busy organisation.

You’ll work right across the organisation – updating membership records, CRM updates, Xero input, Inbox management, event administration, travel bookings, and general office support and coordination. The work is varied, but the common thread is accuracy. The Forum needs someone who can keep information clean, current and reliable across the systems the team depends on.

About the organisation

The Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum is New Zealand’s largest senior leader membership organisation, with around 450 members across Aotearoa.

The Forum works with CEOs, Managing Directors, Directors and senior leaders who are committed to improving health, safety and wellbeing leadership within their organisations. Its purpose is to support leaders to build cultures where people and businesses can thrive.

You’ll join a small, capable and member focused team that enjoys collaborative work with a strong focus on quality, purpose and excellent delivery.

About the role

As Business Support Coordinator you will provide day-to-day systems, finance, membership and administrative support across the Forum.

This role is important because the details matter. Accurate member records, clean CRM data, aligned finance information, well-managed Inboxes and well done administration all helps the  wider team deliver well for members and partners.

Your work will include:

• Updating CRM and member records of any changes

• Supporting Xero invoice inputting, credit card reconciliations and receipt management

• Managing office Inboxes and ensuring required actions are followed up appropriately

• Event administration including invitation management and RSVP tracking

• Travel and accommodation bookings and administration

• Office logistics support including stationery, scanning, document management

• General coordination and administration across the team.

This is a great role for someone who likes being across the detail, enjoys ensuring accurate data entry and keeping things organised, and gets satisfaction from helping a small team operate smoothly.

This is a fulltime permanent role, based in central Wellington offices. You’ll join a positive, collaborative team with an empathetic and encouraging leader, that enjoys working together.

About you

Your background might include data entry, administration, business or office support. You’ll be organised, accurate in your work, reliable and comfortable working across systems and recurring administrative processes.

We’d also like to see:

• Strong attention to detail and pride in producing accurate work

• Good time management and the ability to manage competing priorities

• Confidence using Microsoft Office and general business systems

• A can-do attitude and a good level of initiative

• Very good written and verbal communication skills

• A strong willingness to play your part in supporting the team achieve.

You will be most successful here if you genuinely enjoy high-quality support work. This role has variety and purpose, but is grounded in important routine tasks that need to be done accurately and consistently.

Apply now!

If this sounds like the role for you, we’d love to hear from you!

Please hit the Apply button and attach your CV with a great cover letter to us no later than 25 June. If you’d like more information or a confidential chat, please contact Amber Rostedt at amber.rostedt@talentinternational.com or Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996 at Talent International.

Our client is a leader in the financial services sector, undergoing exciting technology change.

As part of this strategy, they are looking for a Data Analytics Lead who will help shape the future of their analytics capability.

They are building an enablement-led function that creates trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability, and self-service enablement across the business. You’ll own the layer that connects the data platform to real business decisions.

Required Skills:

• Leadership in analytics engineering, BI, or data insights, operating in an enablement-first model (not a centralized reporting factory)
• Hands-on experience designing and operating a semantic and metric layer, including dbt-style modelling (or equivalent)
• Strong understanding and experience running a certified-dataset programme (trusted datasets tied to decision use-cases with named owners)
• Strong Power BI expertise, including:
• modelling and performance
• governance approaches and BI standards
• defining and enforcing BI standards across teams
• Strong SQL skills, with comfort using Python for analytics tasks
• Proven experience delivering data literacy programmes and/or building a community of practice
• Stakeholder management skills, including translating business priorities into data products and pragmatically declining requests that should not sit centrally
• Coaching and advisory capability to improve adoption and confidence over time

Nice to Have Skills:

• Exposure to Azure Databricks SQL and lakehouse analytics patterns
• Experience with AI-enabled insight generation and/or AI design review

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the data analytics function, working with a highly collaborative and supportive team.
For a confidential chat, apply to JP Browne

We have a terrific opportunity to join a local government organisation and partner with business units to provide future oriented strategic advice, detailed analysis, reports and guidance.

If you’re a results-driven finance professional with a passion for collaboration and problem-solving, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact.

This role sits in the Finance group at Palmerston North City Council, and will see you partner with other business groups to provide meaningful advice and assist the teams in their units’ financial wellbeing.

Palmerston North (Palmie) is a vibrant, growing and innovative city and a great place to live and truly enjoy a positive work life balance. Small city benefits, big city ambition!

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with business units to maximise the Finance Unit’s contribution and support strategic goals.
• Provide proactive financial management advice, analysis, and insights to inform decision-making.
• Prepare and interpret monthly reports, including variance analysis, focusing on key drivers affecting performance.
• Develop data analysis to facilitate informed business choices.
• Support managers to understand financial reports and implications
• Assist with budget and forecast preparation, including scenario modelling and analysis.
• Lead process improvements, drive cost models, and identify opportunities to enhance financial performance.

You’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CAANZ or relevant professional membership
• Management accounting or finance business partnering experience
• Proven experience in an advisory function
• Strong IT skills, including proficiency with ERP systems and advanced Excel capabilities.
• A positive and engaging approach to working collaboratively

This role presents an excellent opportunity to bring your financial business partnering or management accounting experience to a positive, friendly team, focused on forming true partnerships and providing sound and reliable advice.

This is a full time role from now ’til Christmas, but we will consider part time (30 hour) applications too. If that sounds like you, apply now! Please send your CV and a great cover letter to us before 24 June 2026.

For more information please contact John Keith on 021 205 3252 or Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996 at Talent International.

• Proficient in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) and Intune
• Experience in application packaging and mobile device management
• Solid understanding of on-premises and online Exchange environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (M365) and Power Platforms
• Knowledge of Citrix and Horizon VDI
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities

• Experience with ITIL frameworks
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python)
• Knowledge of networking concepts and security protocols

Please note: Only candidates based in New Zealand will be considered for this opportunity