Desirable Requirements:

• Experience working in CASG projects

Location: Newcastle

Weekly Hours: 40

Copilot Specialist
Permanent Opportunity

An exciting opportunity is available with one of our clients for a Copilot Specialist to join their Business Applications team in a newly evolved role centred on Microsoft Copilot Studio and the broader Power Platform ecosystem.

This role has opened up following an internal promotion and the team is looking to move quickly. You will be joining a high performing, collaborative IT function with a strong focus on AI innovation, intelligent automation, and delivering real outcomes into production, not just impressive demos.

Location
Sydney, Surry Hills
Hybrid model

About the role

This is a senior, hands on solution design and engineering position focused on building, deploying, and optimising AI driven automation solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio and the Power Platform stack.

You will partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to design, recommend, and deliver scalable AI enabled solutions that are deployed into live production environments.

Key responsibilities

* Design and develop AI powered solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform
* Lead end to end delivery, from discovery and solution design through to deployment and ongoing optimisation
* Translate business requirements into scalable, production ready AI solutions
* Provide strategic input on how AI capabilities can enhance operational efficiency and business outcomes
* Collaborate with engineers, application specialists, and cross functional teams
* Support and enhance existing Power Apps and Copilot solutions currently running in production

About you

* Strong background as a Senior Engineer or Solution Designer
* Ideally 2+ years of hands on commercial Copilot experience
* Proven track record of deploying Copilot agents into live production environments
* Applicants who have not successfully sent Copilot agents into production will not be considered
* Deep experience across the full solution lifecycle, from architecture and build through to release and support
* Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform, this is essential
* Solid understanding of the Microsoft AI ecosystem
* Experience delivering solutions in commercial environments, not purely experimental or personal projects
* Comfortable working within a BAU aligned team structure
* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, able to work effectively with both technical and non technical audiences

Team environment

* Flat structure, currently a team of four
* Significant investment in AI and Microsoft Copilot capabilities
* Opportunity to expand your AI expertise as the function evolves over the next 12 months
* Collaborative culture with exposure to vendor partnerships and co created solutions

TechnologyOne Developer – Local Government

Location: Hybrid/ Flexible working

Day Rate: Negotiable

Employment: Long term contract

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced TechnologyOne Developer to support and enhance core systems used across government services. In this role, you’ll work on solutions that directly impact the local community-supporting essential functions such as finance, payroll, assets, and customer services.

You’ll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and user-friendly TechnologyOne solutions that enable local government teams to do their best work.

The Opportunity

You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to deliver and optimise TechnologyOne solutions, ensuring systems are aligned with strategic objectives. Whether you’re coming from a consulting or developer background, this role offers variety, ownership, and long-term progression.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, and support TechnologyOne applications within a local government environment
• Work across Ci and key modules such as Financials, HR & Payroll, Assets, and Property & Rating (as applicable)
• Design and maintain custom forms, workflows, reports, and dashboards
• Build and support system integrations using APIs, web services, and batch processing
• Provide technical input into system upgrades, enhancements, and new module implementations
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues, ensuring system reliability and compliance
• Work within governance, security, and audit frameworks common to local government

About You

• Demonstrated experience as a TechnologyOne Developer, ideally in local or state government
• Strong hands-on experience with TechnologyOne Ci development and configuration
• Solid skills in SQL, scripting, XML, and integrations
• Understanding of public sector processes, controls, and reporting requirements
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A collaborative, service-oriented approach

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within local government or public sector environments
• Exposure to TechnologyOne SaaS / cloud platforms
• Knowledge of council-specific modules (e.g. Property & Rating, Assets, Planning)
• Familiarity with change management and formal governance processes

Why Apply?

• Stable, long-term contract role
• Flexible working arrangements and strong work-life balance
• Supportive, inclusive team
• Access to professional development and TechnologyOne training
• Competitive day rate

Our client is currently recruiting for a Customer Success Analyst in a 12 month daily rate contract.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in driving adoption and effective use of the Foundry data and AI platform across the business.

This role sits at the intersection of technology, data, and business, acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by enabling them to leverage platform capabilities to generate insights, solve problems, and accelerate decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Enablement & Adoption

• Partner with business users to understand their objectives and help them leverage Foundry capabilities effectively.
• Drive a mindset shift from manual data processing to platform-enabled insights and automation.
• Educate and coach users on how to utilise built-in Foundry tools and features (e.g. data integration, analytics, dashboards, AI-driven insights).
• Act as a subject matter expert for Foundry usage within the business.

Technical & Data Analysis

• Work hands-on with data to support business use cases, including data sourcing, integration, transformation, and analysis.
• Assist users in building dashboards, analytics, and workflows within the platform.
• Identify gaps in data or platform capability and build or design solutions where required.
• Collaborate with developers and technical teams when deeper technical support is needed.

Consulting & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, translating business needs into platform-enabled solutions.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and guide them through solution design and delivery.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including data engineers, developers, and business teams.
• Own problems end-to-end rather than passing them on to other teams.

Continuous Improvement & Platform Growth

• Identify opportunities to expand Foundry usage across the organisation.
• Contribute to the evolution of platform capability as it scales beyond its initial use cases.
• Support the transition of the platform from a niche capability to a core enterprise function.

Required Skills & Experience

• Prior experience and understanding with Palantir Foundry.
• Strong experience in technical business analysis, data analytics, or platform enablement roles.
• Comfortable working with data, including querying, analysing, and interpreting datasets.
• Strong understanding of data platforms, analytics tools, or AI-enabled systems.
• Proven ability to work directly with business stakeholders in a consultative capacity.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

If you are interested, please apply now. For a confidential discsussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

• $65-$75 p/h + Super
• 6 Months
• Sydney CBD (Hybrid, 2 days WFH)
• Immediate Start

Talent International is recruiting Senior SAP Payroll Officers to join a high-volume enterprise payroll team during a significant operational period involving redundancy and termination processing.

This is a hands-on contract role suited to experienced SAP payroll professionals who are confident managing complex payroll scenarios and ensuring compliance in a structured environment.

The Role

You will support end-to-end payroll processing across fortnightly and monthly cycles within a well-established payroll team.

Key responsibilities include:

• End-to-end SAP payroll processing (ECC)
• Reviewing and validating payroll prior to finalisation
• Processing complex termination and redundancy payouts
• Ensuring compliance with Australian payroll legislation and Fair Work requirements
• Managing escalated payroll queries
• Supporting payroll reporting and documentation
• Maintaining accuracy during a high-volume operational period

This is not a junior role – we are seeking confident payroll professionals who can step in and operate effectively from day one.

Essential Experience

• Proven SAP (ECC) payroll processing experience – mandatory
• Demonstrated experience processing redundancy and termination payments
• Experience working within large enterprise / high-volume payroll environments
• Strong understanding of Australian payroll legislation
• High attention to detail and ability to manage complex calculations

Please note: Only candidates with strong SAP payroll experience will be considered.

What’s on Offer

• $65-$75 per hour + super (depending on experience)
• 6-month initial contract with potential extension
• Sydney CBD location
• Hybrid working model (3-4 days onsite)
• Supportive payroll team with established processes
• Immediate start available

Why Apply?

This is a strong contract opportunity for an experienced SAP payroll professional seeking exposure to complex payroll processing within a structured and well-supported environment.

If you have the required SAP experience and redundancy processing expertise, we would love to hear from you.

• Senior Payroll Officer – Permanent Role
• Location: Sydney CBD | Hybrid (4 days onsite, 1 day WFH)
• Salary: $110,000 package (including super)

Talent International is partnering with a long-standing, high-profile client to recruit a Senior Payroll Officer for a permanent opportunity. This role sits within a well-established payroll function and plays a key part in ensuring accurate, compliant payroll delivery across a large, complex workforce.

The Role

As a Senior Payroll Officer, you will be part of a 10-person payroll team, taking ownership of payroll processing, review, and quality assurance. You will act as a subject matter expert, supporting Payroll Officers through training and guidance, while leading the resolution of complex payroll matters.

This role does not have direct reports, but does provide leadership through coaching, review, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Process and review end-to-end payroll across fortnightly and monthly cycles
• Review payroll outcomes to ensure accuracy and compliance prior to finalisation
• Lead the resolution of complex payroll queries and escalations
• Provide training, coaching, and support to Payroll Officers
• Complete month-end payroll activities and reporting
• Prepare personnel and payroll documentation in line with statutory requirements
• Ensure compliance with Fair Work, legislation, and internal policies
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and payroll-related projects

Key Skills & Experience (Top Priorities)

• Strong SAP payroll processing experience
• Experience working in a large, complex organisation (2,000+ employees)
• Solid understanding of Fair Work and Australian payroll legislation
• Demonstrated commitment to building a long-term career in payroll
• High attention to detail with strong problem-solving capability
• Confident communicator with internal stakeholders

Team & Structure

• Payroll team of 10
• No direct reports
• Leadership responsibility through review, coaching, and technical expertise

Why Apply?

• Permanent role within a high-profile entertainment organisation
• Competitive $110k package
• Exposure to large-scale, complex payroll operations
• Supportive, experienced payroll team
• Opportunity to influence process improvement and projects

Apply Now

If you’re an experienced payroll professional looking for a stable senior role with growth and flexibility, click Apply Now and submit your resume

A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Data Platform Architect with advanced Databricks experience to join their team in a permanent capacity.

The Data Platform Architect owns the overall design, technical direction, and long-term roadmap for the Databricks environment, driving platform improvements and setting strong architectural and governance standards.

Your experience will include:

• 8-10 years’ hands-on experience designing, deploying, and running Databricks platforms in production
• Led large-scale enterprise Databricks implementations, particularly within financial services environments
• Owned end-to-end platform architecture, covering security, governance, data models, and operational readiness
• Strong expertise in Databricks on AWS, including workspace design, cluster setup, Delta Lake, governance, and cost-efficient, reliable platform architecture
• In-depth knowledge of multi-workspace and account-level controls, supporting secure and well-governed AWS environments

This is a Sydney-based role which will require you to be in the office at least two – three days per week.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online now!

• Location: Sydney (4 days in office, 1-day WFH)
• Reports to: Technical Operations Director, APAC
• Department: Global Technical Operations
• Salary: $180,000 + super + bonus

The Opportunity:

A leading music organisation is now growing their Global Technical Operations hub in Sydney and looking for a Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team.

This is more than a traditional ops role – it’s an opportunity to bring a software engineering mindset to reliability, automation, and scalability in a global, high-impact environment.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll join a collaborative, hands-on team responsible for the stability, performance, and scalability of global platforms. Working closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams, you’ll help build a resilient environment that keeps music flowing – from studio tools to streaming systems.

• Design and maintain high-availability, high-performance systems for global applications.
• Automate everything – from infrastructure provisioning to deployment and scaling – using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• Build robust monitoring and observability frameworks with AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and deployment speed.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and lead post-incident reviews.
• Champion SRE principles – embed SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets into everyday engineering.
• Collaborate across Dev, Infra, and Security teams to create a culture of continuous improvement and reliability.

About You

You’re a technically strong and level-headed engineer who loves automation, thrives in complex environments, and knows how to balance pragmatism with perfection.

• Background in systems administration (Linux/Windows) in a large-scale environment.
• Proficient in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java).
• Hands-on experience with AWS (GCP or Azure a bonus).
• Deep understanding of networking, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Calm, collaborative communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with ServiceNow or ITIL processes.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering, resilience testing, or advanced capacity planning.
• Previous experience managing distributed, global systems in production.

Culture & Perks

• Annual bonus $
• Global collaboration and career growth opportunities

Interested?
Apply now or contact Sophia Parrelli at Talent International for a confidential chat.

Our Financial Services client is seeking a skilled Risk Modelling Analyst to join their team on an initial 6 month contract. This role is based in the Sydney CBD and will require 2-3 days in the office.

The Risk Modelling Analyst will join a significant program of work which is a high priority for the client. The successful candidate must posses skills in SQL, SAS, Excel and Risk Modelling or Model Development.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development, monitoring and ongoing performance assessment of credit risk models
• Analyse model performance and stability across portfolios
• Contribute to model enhancements aligned to evolving credit risk frameworks and regulatory requirements
• Work with large and complex data sets to produce insights that support risk decision-making

Experience Required

• Financial Services experience (Big 4 Banking experience highly regarded).
• Credit Risk Modeller with strong exposure to retail banking portfolios, including mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, or lending.
• Advanced data and analytical capability, including:
• SQL
• SAS
• Excel
• Proven experience in credit risk modelling, model development or model monitoring
• Strong understanding of credit risk concepts including:
• PD, LGD, EAD
• IFRS 9
• Credit risk frameworks and model lifecycle management

If this is of interest, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Cyber Security Architect to join their team on an initial six month contract.

Joining a security architecture practice, you will be working on a number of project engagements and engaging with business stakeholders from across the business. You will be responsible for conducting security and threat assessments to ensure workloads or systems are assessed against appropriate security controls, risk mitigation exercises to ensure adequate controls have been considered as part of the overall solution, as well as providing recommendations and advice to ensure solutions falls within internal security guidelines.

This position will suit candidates who are collaborative, with strong stakeholder engagement skills combined with a solid background in cyber security architecture.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (i.e. CISSP)
• Strong experience working as a Cyber Security Architect within large complex environments (preferably Financial Services)
• Good understanding of information security / architecture / risk frameworks such as SABSA, NIST 800-53 and/or TOGAF
• Proven experience consulting and providing advice to business and technical stakeholders on a range of projects
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to consult, negotiate and influence
• Superior verbal and written communication skills

?This is a Sydney-based role which will require you to be in the office at least two – three days per week.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online now!

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The Company

My client, an established and rapidly growing mortgage brokerage has built a strong reputation for delivering high-quality lending solutions and exceptional customer service. Consistently ranked among Australia’s leading brokerages, the business continues to experience strong growth driven by market demand, lender partnerships, and a high-performing internal team.

The Opportunity

Due to sustained growth and increased deal flow, an opportunity has opened for a Credit Specialist / Credit Analyst to join a high-performing credit team.

This role offers genuine end-to-end exposure across residential lending transactions, allowing you to take ownership of applications from initial credit assessment through to unconditional approval. You will be supported by a dedicated offshore processing and settlements team, enabling you to focus on higher-value analytical and client-facing responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage loan applications from submission through to approval
• Conduct serviceability assessments and loan structuring
• Analyse client financials including income statements, tax returns and supporting documents
• Prepare lending proposals and credit recommendations
• Work closely with brokers, lenders and internal stakeholders to progress deals efficiently
• Communicate with clients throughout the application process and manage documentation requirements
• Maintain high attention to detail while managing multiple applications

About the Team

You will join a collaborative and supportive credit team led by an experienced leader focused on mentoring and scaling the function. The team is supported by offshore processing and settlements staff, allowing credit specialists to focus on technical analysis and client outcomes.

About You

• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in mortgage lending, credit analysis, loan processing or a similar role
• Strong understanding of serviceability calculations and loan structuring
• Ability to confidently interpret financial statements, tax returns and income documentation
• Strong communication skills with confidence engaging clients
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Motivated, team-oriented and eager to develop within a high-growth environment

What’s On Offer For You

• Competitive salary + super + performance incentives
• Clear career development pathway
• Strong pipeline of deals and consistent workflow
• High-performing and supportive team culture
• Eastern Suburbs office location

Overview and Context

This opportunity sits within the Customer Experience Office of a major Australian bank, where the Strategic Design and Customer Journeys team operates as an enterprise-wide function. Reporting into the Chief Experience Office and closely aligned to the NPS function, the team leads upfront discovery and definition work on priority initiatives, using deep customer and stakeholder research to shape clear, evidence-based recommendations that influence executive decisions and drive measurable experience outcomes.

The Role and What You Will Be Doing

This is a senior strategic and service designer contract role focused on Consumer priorities, working alongside a Principal Designer within a high performing enterprise practice.

You will contribute across two major streams of work: a priority end to end journey program focused on improving service experiences and lifting NPS across digital and physical channels, and segment and value proposition research that will shape the next two to three years of initiative planning.

Using a double diamond approach, your focus will be on discovery, exploration and validation before initiatives transition into delivery teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and facilitating customer research sessions with confidence and rigour
• Interviewing internal stakeholders across operations, frontline, risk, legal, product and technology
• Connecting experience insights to NPS, operational metrics and commercial outcomes, synthesising qualitative and quantitative insights into clear themes and opportunity areas
• Developing concise, high impact presentation packs and artefacts for senior stakeholders and presenting findings in executive forums and influencing strategic direction
• Working closely with Principal Designers and senior sponsors across the enterprise

The Ideal Candidate

This is not a step-up role. They are seeking an experienced Senior who can operate confidently at enterprise level.

• Five or more years experience in human centred design, service design or strategic design is a MUST, especially within an enterprise setting
• Strong end to end customer research capability including designing, facilitating, recording and synthesising
• Experience interviewing complex stakeholder groups within large organisations
• Ability to link qualitative insight to measurable outcomes such as NPS, efficiency, cost or revenue
• Data informed mindset and ability to articulate both customer and business value
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders including General Manager level sponsors

Who This Role Would Be Great For

• A senior service designer from consulting who wants to influence enterprise level decisions (all the way up to CEO)
• A strategic designer who prefers upstream problem definition over delivery execution
• Someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys shaping the right problems to solve
• A designer who wants to connect customer experience to measurable commercial impact