Opportunity knocks:

We’re partnering with a leading insurance organisation to secure a Principal Engineer on a 12-month contract. This is a critical, high-impact role focused on strengthening technical leadership within a key API platform team.

About you:

You will act as the Senior-most technical leader within a business -facing API team, driving design, quality, and delivery across a suite of APIs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strong experience as a Senior/Lead/Principal .NET Engineer
• Proven background in API design and delivery
• Solid Azure/cloud experience (or strong readiness to work in cloud environments)
• Ability to lead technical design and influence teams (without direct people management)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience in financial services or insurance (nice to have)

Tech Environment:

• .NET / C# (core stack)
• Microsoft Azure (cloud + API gateway adoption)
• API development & integration
• DevSecOps tooling (e.g. SonarQube, Fortify, Mend)
• Exposure to CI/CD and modern engineering practices

Why This Role Stands Out:

• Opportunity to shape API strategy and cloud adoption
• Strong engineering culture with modern tooling
• Real scope to contribute to AI-led innovation (e.g. GitHub Copilot, enterprise AI initiatives)
• Collaborative, forward-thinking leadership team with strong backing for change

Next Steps:

If this role sounds like you, APPLY now and submit your CV today!

Please note: Only Auckland-based applications will be considered for this opportunity.

Opportunity knocks:

Our client is looking for an intermediate-level SOC Analyst to join them at a pivotal moment of growth and transformation. In this role, you will take responsibilities for investigations, supporting response coordination, and contributing to SOC maturity. It’s a great opportunity to be part of a newly created, high-performing team while settling into brand-new offices designed to support collaboration and innovation.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead investigation of security alerts and incidents
• Coordinate and support incident response
• Identify gaps and improvements in detection and response
• Contribute to playbooks and continuous improvement
• Support on-call operations

About you:

• 5+ years of proven experience in a SOC role
• Strong incident investigation and response capability
• MUST have experience with SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms
• Clear communicator who works well across teams and is highly adaptable

Next Steps:

If this sounds like you and you’re keen to learn more, we’d love to hear from you – APPLY today with your CV and let’s have a chat!

Please note: Only candidates currently based in New Zealand with valid working eligibility will be considered for this opportunity.

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect – Core Ledger to provide strategic leadership, architectural governance, and design direction for this critical domain. You will define the target-state architecture, guide migration from legacy core platforms to modern capabilities, and ensure seamless integration across the enterprise ecosystem.

This role plays a key part in enabling safe, compliant, and value-driven transformation by working closely with business, technology, risk, and delivery teams, as well as leading and mentoring a team of solution architects.

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve the target-state architecture for the Core Ledger domain, including retail banking capabilities
• Lead architecture design for the migration to a modern core banking platform, including coexistence and legacy retirement strategies
• Shape integration between core ledger systems and enterprise domains such as customer, product, integration, and regulatory/reporting
• Ensure alignment between domain architectures and enterprise-wide business, data, application, and technology strategies
• Provide architectural leadership, guidance, and assurance through design reviews and governance forums
• Identify, assess, and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and constraints, working with stakeholders to resolve them pragmatically

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise or Domain Architect in large, complex organisations
• Strong understanding of banking products and core ledger systems, ideally within retail banking environments
• Proven experience delivering large-scale platform migrations or core system transformations, including transition states
• Deep knowledge of integration architecture, data flows, APIs, and event-driven design patterns
• Understanding of financial, regulatory, and reporting requirements in core banking environments
• Familiarity with modern architecture frameworks and concepts (e.g. BIAN desirable)
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across executive, technical, and delivery levels
• Ability to operate effectively in a collaborative, team-based environment

Working Style & Culture
This role operates in a hybrid working environment with strong emphasis on collaboration, delivery impact, and enterprise-wide alignment. You’ll be part of a culture that values:

• Creating opportunities through innovation and continuous improvement
• Delivering what matters with pace, care, and strong risk awareness
• Succeeding together by working across teams and challenging constructively

Integrity, accountability, respect, collaboration, and excellence underpin the way work is delivered and decisions are made.

Interested?

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Jenny Nguyen at jenny.nguyen@talentinternational.com.

Please note: 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.

We are seeking two experienced Area Grid Planners to support the establishment of a new Area Grid Planning capability within a major national transmission infrastructure environment.

These roles will help integrate and coordinate planned work across projects, maintenance, and capital programmes, ensuring safe, efficient, and well-sequenced delivery across a complex and critical network.

About the Role

You will work across:

• Grid Delivery – project delivery and maintenance execution
• Grid Development – future network planning and investment direction

The focus is to create a single, integrated view of outages, sequencing, dependencies, constraints, and risks across multiple portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate outages and network work across multiple programmes
• Identify and manage dependencies, constraints, sequencing conflicts, and risks
• Optimise timing, access, and scheduling across delivery teams
• Support integrated planning across maintenance, capital works, and customer connections
• Facilitate planning discussions and governance forums
• Provide planning insights, reporting, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes and data quality

About You

You will have strong experience in outage planning, network operations, or large-scale infrastructure delivery environments.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in:

• Electricity transmission or distribution networks
• Rail, transport, or other complex infrastructure environments
• Utilities such as water, gas, or telecommunications
• Project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles

You will ideally bring:

• Strong outage planning and sequencing capability
• Experience managing complex dependencies across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work in operational and delivery-focused environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to influence and coordinate without direct authority
• Exposure to governance or planning forums (advantageous)

What’s on Offer

• 2 x key contract roles shaping a new national planning capability
• High-impact work across a complex infrastructure network
• Strong collaboration with engineering, delivery, and planning teams
• Exposure to large-scale, critical infrastructure programmes
• Flexible location options (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch)

Location

• Wellington
• Auckland
• Christchurch

• Exceptional candidates in Hamilton or Palmerston North may also be considered.

If you are an experienced Outage or Network Planner looking to step into a high-impact infrastructure planning environment, we would love to hear from you.Apply now !!!!

Note: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.

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We’re seeking a Senior Business Process Specialist/ Associate Lead with strong capability in business process improvement and operational transformation to help drive meaningful change across people, process, and technology.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in collaborative environments, enjoys solving complex operational problems, and has a structured, data-led approach to improvement. You’ll play a key role in identifying inefficiencies, analysing current-state operations, and shaping practical, high-impact solutions that improve how work gets done.

What you’ll be doing

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, initially within underwriting, to:

• Lead business process improvement and operational transformation initiatives
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to map, challenge, and redesign end-to-end processes
• Analyse current-state operations to identify pain points, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
• Use data and structured problem-solving techniques to develop evidence-based recommendations
• Translate findings into clear, practical future-state process designs
• Support the implementation of improvements across business and technology teams
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence
• Produce high-quality process documentation, including process maps and workflow analysis

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience in business process improvement / operational transformation
• Solid Lean Six Sigma capability (Green Belt or Black Belt highly regarded)
• Proven ability to facilitate workshops and engage senior stakeholders confidently
• Experience in process mapping tools such as Signavio, Visio, Miro or similar
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify root causes and improvement opportunities
• Ability to work effectively across both business and technology teams
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills
• A structured, practical approach to problem solving and delivery

Nice to have:

• Insurance or financial services experience
• Exposure to Agile environments
• Experience using data insights / Power BI to support analysis

Why this role?

This is a high-impact opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, relationship-driven environment where your expertise will directly shape better ways of working across the business. You’ll be empowered to challenge the status quo, influence change, and deliver tangible operational improvements.

If this sounds like you, please apply with your updated CV or contact Jenny for a confidential chat: jenny.nguyen@talentinternational.com

Note:

• You must be currently based in New Zealand
• You must hold a valid NZ working visa
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Opportunity knocks…

We’re on the lookout for an Information Security Consultant to join our client’s team and play a key role in strengthening secure delivery solutions across the organisation. This is an opportunity to work closely with Architects and Engineers to design and implement robust security controls, contribute to enterprise-wide security initiatives, and help enhance the organisation’s overall security posture.

Why you’re special…

• You bring 10+ years of Information Security experience, including at least 5 years in design or consulting-focused roles within agile and highly complex organisations.
• You have created and executed information security strategy, roadmaps and controls modernisation.
• You bring proven expertise in risk management and can confidently advise on mitigation strategies to support safe and secure solution delivery.
• You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to translate complex security concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled in influencing and negotiating across all levels of an organisation and thrive in complex environments.
• You have experience with security testing, assurance activities, and contributing to comprehensive solution designs.
• Knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies within the Information Security landscape.
• You hold tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, Law, or a related discipline.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar are highly desirable.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll have the opportunity to help shape and strengthen the organisation’s Information Security Strategy and Roadmap.
• You’ll work on enterprise-level security initiatives in a collaborative environment.
• You’ll play a key role in improving security operations, assurance processes, and incident resolution capabilities.

Please apply now to register interest.

Please note we are only able to consider NZ Citizens or NZ Residents, we are unable to consider candidates that are overseas without NZ working rights.

Fully Remote within NZ | Leadership Opportunity | Attractive Salary + Benefits

An exciting opportunity to join a growing TechnologyOne practice in a highly visible leadership role that blends hands-on consulting, client advisory, mentoring and practice growth across Australia and New Zealand.

We’re looking for an experienced TechnologyOne Practice Lead / Principal Consultant with strong expertise across Financials, Supply Chain Management and CPM/EPM.
This role offers the best of both worlds – remaining technically hands-on while also leading people, clients and delivery outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead end-to-end TechnologyOne implementations across Financials, SCM and CPM/EPM
• Provide expertise across CiAnywhere, integrations, analytics, ExcelOne and dashboards
• Lead workshops, stakeholder engagement and solution design activities
• Support ETL, data migration and reporting frameworks
• Mentor and lead a growing consulting team across ANZ
• Drive delivery excellence and practice growth

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years’ TechnologyOne experience
• Strong hands-on expertise with CiAnywhere
• Experience across Financials, SCM and CPM/EPM modules
• Proven implementation and client advisory capability
• Strong stakeholder engagement and leadership skills
• Experience mentoring or leading consulting teams

Why join?

• Fully remote role – work from anywhere in NZ
• Leadership opportunity within a growing ANZ practice
• Stay hands-on while influencing strategy and delivery
• Work alongside a collaborative, high-performing team