Business Analyst – Digital & Transformation x 2

We are seeking two experienced Business Analysts (Mid-Level and Senior) to join a dynamic Digital & Transformation team. These roles will play a key part in delivering a wide range of strategic technology and data initiatives that drive operational efficiency, enhance customer experience, and support business growth.
You will work across a diverse portfolio of projects including enterprise system implementations, data transformation, integration initiatives, and digital platform improvements. This is not a single-project environment – you will be exposed to multiple workstreams across a complex and evolving digital landscape.
You will:

• Work closely with stakeholders across complex digital and transformation initiatives to gather, define, and document requirements
• Facilitate workshops and support end-to-end business analysis activities
• Drive continuous improvement across BA practices, processes, and delivery approaches

Key Projects You May Work On

• Data transformation initiatives including data migration, data warehousing, and data governance improvements
• Website rebuilds and digital experience enhancements
• Implementation of an enterprise analytics and business intelligence platform
• Deployment of enterprise systems (e.g. Procurement, CRM, HRIS, ERP)
• Complex integration projects connecting core systems such as CRM, eCommerce, and Point of Sale
• Cross-functional digital transformation programmes

Experience You will bring:

• Strong experience in workshop facilitation and requirements gathering
• Ability to lead or support UAT and training activities
• Experience delivering large-scale technology implementations such as ERP, CRM, Salesforce, and complex integrations
• Exposure to data-related initiatives including data migration, data warehousing, and data governance/privacy
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to collaborate effectively, take feedback constructively, and influence outcomes
• Comfortable working across both Agile and Waterfall environments

Why Apply?

• Work on meaningful digital transformation projects.
• Collaborate with experienced, supportive teams.
• Influence strategic initiatives and business outcomes.
• Enjoy a flexible, modern working environment with opportunities for professional growth.

If you’re an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys solving complex problems and delivering real business value, we’d love to hear from you.

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.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

They are building an enablement-led Data, Insights & AI function that will provide trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability and self-service enablement across the business.
This role will own the engineering platform that underpins every downstream analytics, reporting and AI capability.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll remain close to the platform, designing pipelines, reviewing code, improving reliability and solving production issues while setting the standards, operating rhythm and engineering discipline that allow a small but growing team to scale safely.

Required Skills:

• Significant hands-on experience operating production data platforms, ideally including Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, or equivalent cloud-native data platforms such as Azure Synapse, Snowflake or AWS data services
• Strong experience across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, deployment and operational support of enterprise data platforms
• Proven experience designing and scaling medallion-style data architectures across bronze, silver and gold layers, or equivalent layered data modelling patterns
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Comfortable working with CI/CD, GitHub or Azure DevOps, version control and modern engineering workflows
• Experience setting engineering standards across ingestion, transformation, testing, observability, deployment and code review
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, including SLAs, incident response, runbooks, monitoring and post-incident improvement
• Experience leading small but growing technical teams with a coaching-led, hands-on leadership style
• Ability to review technical designs, challenge trade-offs and act as the technical authority for the data platform
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Commercial awareness around platform cost, cloud usage, workload right-sizing and cost transparency

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience working in financial services or another regulated environment
• Exposure to FinOps practices for cloud data platforms, particularly Azure or Databricks
• Familiarity with AI/ML production platform patterns such as MLflow, model registry or feature stores
• Experience with data product thinking, data contracts and certified datasets
• Experience working closely with analytics, governance, architecture, information security and risk teams
• Databricks, Azure, data engineering or cloud certifications

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a critical data platform where your technical leadership will have genuine visibility and impact.

You’ll suit this role if you are a builder at heart: someone who enjoys hands-on platform craft, develops engineers through the way work is done, and knows how to create standards that are practical, adopted and useful.

For a confidential chat, apply with an updated CV to JP Browne.

We are seeking experienced Project Controls Specialists/ Infrastructure Planner to support the development of a new integrated planning capability within a major national infrastructure environment.

This is a high-impact role working across maintenance, capital works, and network operations, helping create a single coordinated view of outages, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery risks across a complex infrastructure portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

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

About You

We are looking for experienced planners who have operated in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, ideally across:

• Infrastructure, utilities, transport, energy, rail, telecoms, or similar sectors
• PMO, project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles
• Environments requiring coordination across multiple delivery teams and programmes
• Experience with Primavera P6 is an advantage

You will bring:

• Strong planning, sequencing, and outage coordination capability
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to operate across governance and delivery environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confidence influencing without direct authority

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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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.