Data Engineer

Sydney, NSW | Federal Government Program
12-Month Contract + Extension Options
Active Baseline Security Clearance Required

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join a major Federal Government program delivering foundational AI capabilities within a secure AWS cloud environment.

This is an opportunity to work on a greenfield AI platform that will support multiple Generative AI use cases across the organisation. As part of a highly skilled cloud and AI delivery team, you will be responsible for building and managing the data integration capabilities that power AI-enabled solutions.

The initial focus is supporting an AI-powered Case Assistant solution designed to ingest and analyse large volumes of documents, enable natural language querying, identify duplicate content, generate timelines, and improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation.

The Opportunity

As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable data ingestion and integration pipelines that connect enterprise source systems with the organisation’s AI platform. You will work across cloud-native technologies, helping establish the foundational data capabilities required to support current and future AI initiatives.

This role will suit someone who enjoys building modern cloud-based data solutions, working with emerging AI technologies, and contributing to a highly collaborative delivery environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data integration pipelines within AWS

• Develop batch and streaming data workflows to ingest, process, and transform data from multiple source systems

• Build and optimise data pipelines supporting AI and Generative AI workloads

• Develop end-to-end data processing solutions for structured and unstructured content

• Integrate enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and file-based systems into cloud-based AI platforms

• Ensure data quality, integrity, reliability, and performance through testing, validation, and monitoring

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation practices to support repeatable deployments

• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline performance and operational issues

• Collaborate with cloud engineers, platform teams, security specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure and scalable solutions

• Contribute to technical documentation, solution design, and operational support processes

• Participate in Agile delivery activities including sprint planning, estimation, and continuous improvement

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong Python development experience

• Proven experience delivering cloud-based data engineering solutions

• Hands-on AWS experience across data integration and processing services

• Experience designing and building scalable data pipelines and integration workflows

• Kubernetes experience in enterprise environments

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and engineering principles

• Experience with DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and version control

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related disciplines

Highly Desirable

• Experience working with Generative AI solutions or AI platforms

• Experience supporting AI-enabled products and services

• Experience processing unstructured content for AI use cases

• AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate)

• Experience working within large-scale enterprise or government cloud environments

• Experience working within Agile delivery teams

Technical Environment

• AWS Cloud

• Python

• Kubernetes

• Infrastructure as Code

• Data Integration & Processing Pipelines

• Cloud-Native Architecture

• AI & Generative AI Platforms

Why Join?

• Contribute to a high-profile Federal Government AI transformation initiative

• Work within a greenfield AWS environment building foundational AI capabilities

• Exposure to cutting-edge Generative AI technologies and cloud-native engineering practices

• Collaborate with highly skilled cloud, data, security, and AI specialists

• Long-term contract opportunity with extension potential

If you’re passionate about cloud data engineering and want to help build the data foundations that power next-generation AI solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Our client:
Talent International has been engaged by a leading global technology company delivering large-scale resilience programs in enterprise financial services.

This organisation partners with some of the most complex and highly regulated environments in Australia, supporting operational resilience, cloud transformation and modern engineering practices.

The role:
This is a senior contract opportunity for an experienced resilience practitioner who can independently lead resilience discovery and assessment activities across a large enterprise environment.

You will facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders, assess operational resilience maturity, identify critical dependencies and vulnerabilities, and deliver actionable recommendations that improve resilience posture across the organisation.

The role also requires strong DevSecOps and cloud engineering capability, with a focus on secure CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and GitOps practices.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead resilience discovery and assessment workshops with GMs and Heads of Function
• Conduct operational and organisational resilience assessments across enterprise environments
• Deliver maturity assessments, dependency mapping and impact tolerance analysis
• Produce executive-ready reports, heatmaps and remediation recommendations
• Drive stakeholder engagement and remediation planning across business and technology teams
• Design and secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls
• Support cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes environments using Terraform and GitOps tooling

Skills and experience:

• Proven experience leading resilience assessments within enterprise environments
• Strong operational resilience, business continuity or organisational resilience expertise
• Ability to independently facilitate workshops with senior business stakeholders
• Excellent written communication and executive reporting capability
• 7+ years’ experience across DevOps / DevSecOps environments
• Strong Azure and Terraform experience
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and integrating security tooling
• Hands-on Kubernetes, Docker and container security experience
• Strong scripting capability across PowerShell, Shell or Python
• Experience with GitOps tooling including FluxCD, Helm and Kustomize

Benefits and additional information:

• Sydney CBD location with hybrid flexibility (2 days WFH)
• Immediate start preferred
• Opportunity to work on a high-impact enterprise resilience program
• Fast-paced, highly visible engagement within financial services

How to apply:
If this opportunity aligns with your background, please apply directly or reach out to Sienna Coate Thompson at Talent International for a confidential discussion.

Our Client

Talent International has been engaged by a growing financial services organisation to recruit a Customer Communications & Campaign Operations Specialist.

Operating within a highly regulated environment, the business partners with major organisations across Australia and New Zealand to deliver customer engagement and recovery solutions. With continued growth, they are seeking a detail-oriented professional to become the central owner of customer communications activity across the business.

The Role

This newly created role sits within the Digital team and will be responsible for managing and executing customer communications across SMS, email, letters and dialler activity.

Working closely with Operations, Data, Technology and Leadership teams, you will ensure communication workflows are delivered accurately, compliantly and effectively, while identifying opportunities to improve customer engagement and portfolio performance over time.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working within structured processes, has strong attention to detail and wants the opportunity to grow into broader campaign optimisation and strategy responsibilities as their knowledge of the business develops.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily customer communications across SMS, email, letters and dialler campaigns.
• Configure communication workflows, filters and campaign criteria.
• Execute communication activities in line with established processes and compliance requirements.
• Monitor campaign performance and identify opportunities for optimisation.
• Support testing, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with operational stakeholders to ensure effective customer engagement.
• Maintain accurate records and governance across all communication activities.
• Ensure all customer communications comply with regulatory and internal requirements.

Skills & Experience

• Experience within customer communications, campaign operations, collections, contact centre operations or a similar environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow structured processes.
• Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services, utilities, insurance or telecommunications.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Positive attitude, willingness to learn and ability to adapt within a growing business.

Benefits & Additional Information

• Permanent full-time opportunity.
• Parramatta location with onsite parking available nearby.
• Exposure to senior operational leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Ongoing training, mentoring and career development opportunities.
• Supportive and collaborative team culture.
• Monthly team perks and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunity to grow into broader campaign strategy and optimisation responsibilities.
• Standard working hours of approximately 9:00am – 5:30pm with some flexibility.

How to Apply

If you’re looking for an opportunity where you can make a genuine impact, develop your career and grow with a successful and expanding organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact Sienna Coate Thompson at Talent International for a confidential discussion.

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Officer to join a large and established payroll function on an initial 6-month contract. This role sits within a collaborative team environment supporting a workforce of approximately 3,000 employees.

This is not an end-to-end payroll position. The focus of the role will be on transactional payroll processing and supporting payroll operations within a high-volume environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Processing employee timesheets and uploading timesheet data into the payroll system
• Processing and calculating leave loading and payroll adjustments
• Loading and maintaining new starter information within the system
• Supporting payroll activities across a large workforce
• Working within a high-volume, fast-paced environment with manual and paper-based processes
• Ensuring payroll data accuracy and compliance with relevant procedures and Enterprise Agreements (EA)

You will bring:

• Previous experience in payroll administration or payroll processing roles
• Exposure to ADP payroll systems (highly desirable)
• Basic understanding of payroll legislation, awards and Enterprise Agreements (EA)
• Strong Excel skills, including working with large datasets and manual reconciliations
• Ability to work within high-volume payroll environments
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage repetitive, process-driven work
• Comfortable working with manual and paper-based processes

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Anita Fonseka at anita.fonseka@talentinternational.com

Business Analyst – Digital Optimisation Program

We are partnering with a large enterprise organisation seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support the delivery of key initiatives within a major Digital Optimisation Program.

This is a delivery-focused BA role suited to a professional who thrives in structured delivery environments where scope, direction, and solution approaches are clearly defined. You will play a critical role in eliciting, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements while supporting delivery teams throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Working closely with business stakeholders, project teams, developers, testers, and delivery leads, you will help ensure requirements are clear, aligned, and effectively translated into successful delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, analyse, and validate business and functional requirements
• Translate business needs into clear and structured artefacts including:
  • Business requirements
  • User stories
  • Process maps
  • Acceptance criteria
• Produce detailed, high-quality BA documentation with minimal rework required
• Facilitate requirements workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions
• Map current-state and future-state business processes aligned to agreed delivery direction
• Support delivery teams through ongoing clarification of requirements, issue resolution, and stakeholder engagement
• Collaborate with developers, testers, architects, and project stakeholders across the full delivery lifecycle
• Support testing activities including requirements traceability, UAT preparation, and validation activities
• Ensure business requirements align with operational objectives, governance, and program outcomes
• Assist in identifying risks, dependencies, assumptions, and impacts relating to delivery activities

About You

You will bring proven experience as a Business Analyst supporting delivery within large-scale digital transformation or optimisation programs.

Required Experience

• Strong experience working within structured delivery environments with clearly defined scope and direction
• Demonstrated capability producing detailed, high-quality BA artefacts including requirements documentation, user stories, process maps, and acceptance criteria
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging effectively with business and technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Experience supporting delivery teams throughout requirements, testing, and implementation phases
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail in fast-paced environments
• Experience working within agile, hybrid, or enterprise delivery environments

Desirable Experience

• Experience within government, regulated industries, registry, property, or legal services environments
• Exposure to workflow automation, digital transformation, or process optimisation initiatives
• Familiarity with process mapping and modelling tools such as Visio, BPMN, or similar
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale transformation programs

Key Skills

• Requirements elicitation and documentation
• User story and acceptance criteria development
• Process mapping and business process analysis
• Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation

If you are a delivery-focused Business Analyst looking to contribute to a high-profile transformation program, we would love to hear from you.

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Our Client

Talent International has partnered with a leading global technology consulting environment delivering large-scale digital transformation projects across Australia.

Their Experience Design team works across major enterprise clients to create customer-centric digital products and experiences, partnering closely with stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to drive meaningful business outcomes through design.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior UX / Experience Designer to join a high-performing consulting environment focused on enterprise transformation projects.

This is a highly collaborative and customer-facing role suited to someone who is commercially minded, confident presenting to stakeholders, and passionate about creating intuitive user experiences. You will work closely with Experience Architects, delivery teams, and enterprise clients to shape customer journeys, facilitate workshops, and bring complex products to life through strong UX and visual design.

The team is looking for someone energetic, bubbly, switched on, and product-focused, ideally with experience in consulting or customer-facing environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct user interviews and facilitate discovery workshops
• Translate research and insights into customer journey maps and personas
• Create wireframes, UI concepts, and visual designs using Figma
• Collaborate with Solution and Technical Architects across enterprise projects
• Support Agile delivery teams to ensure design integrity throughout delivery
• Present concepts and design recommendations to stakeholders and clients
• Contribute to design systems, branding, and presentation collateral

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in services and tech product design
• Strong UX / Product Design experience within enterprise or consulting environments
• Experience working across customer-facing digital transformation programs
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience designing CRM or enterprise platform experiences
• Proficiency across Figma, Miro, Jira, and Adobe Suite
• Comfortable working across Agile delivery environments
• Experience leading UX streams or owning end-to-end design initiatives highly regarded

Benefits and Additional Information

• $102 per hour including super
• 6-month contract opportunity
• Sydney CBD location
• Hybrid flexibility (typically 3 days WFH, though this may vary depending on client engagement)
• Enterprise-scale transformation projects
• Opportunity to work across a range of industries and clients
• Exposure to high-profile customer experience and digital transformation initiatives
• Interview process consists of 3 stages, including a case study presentation in round 2

How to Apply

If you are a customer-focused UX / Experience Designer who enjoys working closely with stakeholders and solving complex design problems, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out to Sienna Coate Thompson at Talent International for a confidential discussion.

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the strategy, delivery, and ongoing optimisation of enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure across private and public cloud environments.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with organisational priorities. You will lead high-performing technical teams while driving innovation across modern infrastructure, automation, and cloud operations.

Working closely with cross-functional technology teams and senior stakeholders, you will play a key role in shaping infrastructure strategy and delivering platforms that support large-scale enterprise services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Cloud Platform and Delivery teams, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable culture
• Oversee and optimise hybrid cloud environments across Amazon Web Services (primarily AWS), Microsoft Azure and private cloud infrastructure
• Ensure strong governance, security, resilience, and cost efficiency across all platforms
• Manage the lifecycle and operational performance of private cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, and virtualisation
• Drive automation, monitoring, observability, and AI-enabled operations to improve reliability and reduce manual effort
• Lead strategic infrastructure initiatives in partnership with internal stakeholders and external vendors

If this opportunity aligns with your experience and career goals, please apply now or contact Ronald on O413 638 111 for a confidential discussion.