A leading financial services provider is seeking a Principal Architect with proven experience designing new platforms to join their multi-year technology transformation program on an initial nine month contract (with strong potential of extension).

Joining a supportive architecture team, you will be responsible for architecting and delivering a new testing platform for the transformation program. You will embed yourself within the project team to design testing environments, automate processes across multiple tools and platforms, and ensure the right test data is available when required. You will also contribute to the wider architecture domain, guiding project delivery and participating in governance and architecture forums.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Strong experience working as a Solution/Principal Architect within large, complex environments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering new platforms, with exposure to testing platforms or environments highly regarded.
• Good knowledge of DevOps principles, pipelines, and automation.
• Demonstrated experience working in regulated environments with strong governance, audit and compliance requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to consult, influence and drive decision-making across project and architecture teams.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.

This is a Sydney-based role which will require you to be in the office at least three days per week, with Wednesday as the anchor day.

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

DESIGN ARCHITECT // MULTINATIONAL ORGANISATION // 6 MONTH CONTRACT

We are working with a MAJOR organisation sitting within the FMGC industry.

Assisting with a 6-month contract we are seeking a Design Architect, Architect to support the design and transition of core IT infrastructure from the existing data centres in Queensland to two new Equinix data centres in Melbourne.

This role involves working on a large-scale data centre relocation project and will involve close collaboration with technical international partners, local vendors and the global headquarters.

As the Design Architect you will oversee:

Low-Level Design (LLD) Development

The selected architect will be responsible for delivering detailed design documentation across:

• Compute Layer – Based on Dell PowerEdge and PowerStore platforms (e.g., R660, R760, PowerStore 500T/3200T)
• Storage Layer – Including PowerProtect DD9410, DS600 Disk Shelves, and associated backup/DR design.
• Network Layer – Cisco Nexus 9300, Catalyst 9200L, and ACI APIC clusters, as well as Palo Alto PA-3440 firewalls and Fortinet FortiGate appliances.

Transitional Plan

• Migration Strategy for moving workloads and data securely from iSeek to Equinix facilities.
• Sequencing & Dependencies across production and management clusters.
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation – Ensuring minimal disruption to critical business systems.
• Cutover Planning – Detailed runbooks for workload and storage replication/migration.

Integration with Global Standards

• Align with Lactalis France architecture frameworks.
• Validate compatibility with existing B2B and ERP connectivity platforms.
• Document compliance with Lactalis group policies and security requirements.

Technical Inputs Available

Lactalis has already prepared several technical artefacts to support this engagement:

• Rack Elevations & Power Data – Dell-built cabinet designs showing thermal load, weight, and power consumption for compute/storage.
• Vendor Quotation – NTT quotation outlining Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Opengear hardware/software solutions over a 5-year term.
• Current State Asset Export – PowerData export of existing infrastructure (ISEEK).
• High Level Design – Supplied by Lactalis France.

Deliverables

The appointed architect will provide:

• Low-Level Design Documents – Compute, Storage, and Network layers.
• Transition & Migration Plan – Sequenced approach for migration from iSeek to Equinix.
• Operational Runbooks – Supporting cutover and rollback procedures.
• Compliance & Alignment Report – Ensuring architecture meets Lactalis global standards.

Key Requirements & Desired Skills

You should be able to talk to your relevant experience in low-level design for enterprise data centre migrations.
– Evidence of Cisco ACI, Dell EMC, Palo Alto, and Fortinet expertise.
– Prior experience working with global enterprise architecture teams.

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Our client is a global consulting organisation with offices in Melbourne. Due to growth and a busy client base, they are seeking an experienced Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer / Architect to join their team in either a contract or permanent capacity.

Working with the Azure Practice Lead, you will be working in a collaborative, consultative team. Our clients pride their work culture on being a very value-driven one which ensures the team comes together and works on shared values for everyone’s success. Please note that to be successful in this role, you must be an Australian Citizen and have a NV1 security clearance which is current.

To apply for this role, you will need the following experience and background:

• Previous experience as a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones
• Strong skills and experience with Terraform and DevOps
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• A preference for people with professional or managed services background will be given.
• You will have a curiosity & passion for customers and a proven ability to communicate solutions in a way that resonates with all levels of our customers.
• You must be comfortable engaging both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders.
• You must have an NV1 security clearance to be considered.

Attractive rates, either Labour Hire or Permanent salary packaging, to be discussed.
Please call Shelley on 0418 572 482 for more information or email shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Our client is a global consulting organisation with offices in Melbourne. Due to growth and a busy client base, they are seeking an experienced Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer / Architect to join their team in either a contract or permanent capacity.

Working with the Azure Practice Lead, you will be working in a collaborative, consultative team. Our clients pride their work culture on being a very value-driven one which ensures the team comes together and works on shared values for everyone’s success. Please note that to be successful in this role, you must be an Australian Citizen and have a NV1 security clearance which is current.

To apply for this role, you will need the following experience and background:

• Previous experience as a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones
• Strong skills and experience with Terraform and DevOps
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• A preference for people with professional or managed services background will be given.
• You will have a curiosity & passion for customers and a proven ability to communicate solutions in a way that resonates with all levels of our customers.
• You must be comfortable engaging both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders.
• You must have an NV1 security clearance to be considered.

Attractive rates, either Labour Hire or Permanent salary packaging, to be discussed.
Please call Shelley on 0418 572 482 for more information or email shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Opportunity knocks:

Our client is looking for a Technology Architect to join them on a 9-month contract. They are looking for a strategic, hands-on, and collaborative Architect who enjoys solving complex challenges. With exciting projects underway, your expertise will be key to driving their successful delivery.

About you?

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and architecting solutions across Azure cloud services, integration framework, data and SaaS platforms.
• Hands-on experience delivering operational technology solutions and real-time asset management systems in complex environments.
• Solid infrastructure background with knowledge of engineering, network services, and IT asset management.
• Proven capability in developing and implementing event-driven data platforms for responsive, scalable system performance.

What’s next?

If you’re looking for the next contract opportunity, APPLY today!

Please note, you must have the right eligibility to work in NZ.

• Sydney location – working from home flexibility
• $1,230 per day inclusive of super
• 6-12 month contract

We are seeking a Senior Red Hat Delivery / Solution Architect to join a major project already in progress with a leading Telco client. This is a pivotal role where you’ll act as the technical leader, shaping solution design, guiding delivery, and driving customer engagement.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design and deployment of a new Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Act as the technical authority, working closely with the customer and the HPE technical project team.
• Allocate work packages across delivery teams while ensuring project alignment.
• Be the customer-facing lead, facilitating discussions and providing clear, well-structured technical direction.
• Drive adoption of OCP, aligning technical solutions with the client’s strategic vision.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience leading large-scale OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) deployments, ideally in a Telco environment.
• Strong background in Red Hat Openshift, Containers, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
• Track record of delivering end-to-end greenfield OCP projects, ideally including Australian Telco experience (Optus highly regarded).
• Strong communication skills – able to write, present, and influence at senior levels.
• Ability to bridge technical delivery with customer requirements, justifying solution approaches with confidence.

Requirements:

• Must be available full time for a 6-12 month engagement.
• Onsite presence in Sydney is essential (combination of onsite with the customer and in the office, and from home)
• Relevant Red Hat certifications/accreditations (senior/master-level) highly desirable.

Contract Details:

• Rate: $1230 per day incl. super
• Duration: 6-12 months
• Start: ASAP (immediate availability strongly preferred)

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a greenfield OCP implementation and work with a high-profile Telco client on a strategically significant project.

Apply now with your CV to be considered for this role.

A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Senior Solution Architect with strong Payments experience to join their team on a long, fixed-term contract.

This organisation is currently embarking on a number of large transformation programs which includes an uplift of their payments platform.

Working closely with both business and technology stakeholders, you will be responsible for the planning and design of solutions to uplift their controls and standards in line with ISO27001 and COBIT 2019, along with aligning the governance and controls of the platform with internal standards to ensure the continued reliability and efficient of the platform.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (i.e. TOGAF)
• Demonstrated experience working as a Solution Architect within large complex environments
• Proven experience in the planning and design of solutions for payments platforms (NPP, SWIFT etc)
• Strong understanding of ISO27001 and COBIT
• Knowledge and understanding of traditional on-prem infrastructure (VMware, AD, SQL Server etc) combined with modern DevOps toolsets (Puppet, Terraform, Gitlab, Azure DevOps Services etc)
• Superior stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to negotiate and influence
• Exceptional problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

In return my client is offering:

• Hybrid work from home / office (required to be in the office five days per fortnight)
• Salary package – $200k – $210k inclusive of superannuation
• Fantastic team environment

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

• Proven experience in C’ level advisory, leadership of 5-15 Solution Architects across multiple domains
• 12 months + 12 months
• Melbourne or Geelong – hybrid work model
• Proof of Australian Citizenship with ability to obtain NV1

Our Client

This government agency is a service provider, responsible for providing and funding a range of support services to thousands of individuals across Australia. With multiple locations across the country, the organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for vulnerable Australians.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Program Architect to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality architectural solutions for a significant transformation program with 12+ project streams across a range of domains (IDAM, Cyber, Fraud Detection, EDW uplift, Digital and Mobile Transformation).

This role is critical in supporting the delivery of fraud detection and compliance improvement initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.

Your duties will include:
60% percent of the role will focus on architecture advisory and stakeholder engagement across the organisating including the Chief Architect, CxO suite and Branch Managers. 40% of the role you will be leading up to 15 Solution Architects, collaboratively solving business problems, leading, coaching, mentoring and removing impediments. Solution Architects each have expertise in security, IDAM, EDW and Data, Fraud, Integration and Digital Transformation.

• Developing a strategic roadmap that integrates multiple solution and cyber architectural designs.
• Managing and mentoring a team of solution and cyber architects.
• Delivering fit-for-purpose solution architectures for complex projects.
• Providing thought leadership on program and cyber architecture strategies.
• Facilitating technical decision-making and chairing architecture governance forums.
• Presenting end-to-end project solutions for approval at governance councils.

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• At least 10 years’ experience as a lead architect, with a proven track record in solution development.
• Strong technical and architectural background in delivering large-scale, complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience (minimum 5 years) in leading and managing architecture teams.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technology solutions and strategic roadmaps.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent IT architectural qualification (mandatory).
• Experience in fraud detection and compliance improvement programs, with AWS cloud and cyber security expertise highly desirable.

Application Process

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Kylie McManus on 0408 388 680 or email kylie.mcmanus@talentinternational.com.

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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, the successful candidate will be working on a number of project engagements and engaging with business stakeholders from across the business. Key responsibilities will include conducting security assessments to ensure workloads or systems are assessed against appropriate security controls, providing recommendations to ensure solutions falls within guidelines, and contribute to architecture decisions.

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
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to negotiate and influence
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

In return my client is offering:

• An attractive daily rate
• Hybrid work from home / office (required to be in the office at least two days per week)?

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

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• Initial Contract Until End of June 2026 | Potential for Extensions
• Melbourne CBD Location | Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Government Department | AWS & Snowflake

The Role: This Government Department is seeking a Solutions Architect to design and develop solution architectures for enterprise-class business systems.

The Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops solution architectures for enterprise-class business systems.
• Creates architecture and design artefacts, diagrams and documentation that effectively communicate the technical vision to stakeholders.
• Stays informed about emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in infrastructure, platforms, network and cloud.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to ensure they align with the organisation’s architectural standards.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation within the IT infrastructure landscape. Reviewing current system solutions and recommending and implementing enhancements

Skills & Experience Required:

• 7 years proven experience as a Solution Architect delivering ICT projects within the AWS & Snowflake environment.
• Extensive experience and expertise in developing solution architecture, system design, security, integration patterns, modern information/data models and requirements encompassing public (AWS, Azure, Google), private and hybrid models.
• Experience with AWS services, including AWS Landing Zone, AWS Networking, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS and Aurora is highly desirable.
• Experience in integration architecture, including iPaaS, API Gateways, ETL, ESB and related technologies (e.g., REST, JSON, etc.) is desirable.
• Experience in multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, identity management or related technologies is desirable.

What’s in it for you:

• Initial Contract Until End of June 2026 | Potential for Extensions
• Melbourne CBD Location | Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Government Department | AWS & Snowflake

Apply today and Jimmy Nguyen will reach out to disclose further information.

Our client is an iconic Australian organisation currently seeking a Principal Identity Architect to own architecture across their Identity and Access Management domain.

Your new role will see you leading architecture across the Identity landscape covering both workforce and customer identity services. You will be responsible for representing the domain portfolio needs into all group architecture functions, meetings and governance, and for providing enterprise level guidance and governance back to the business portfolio function. As a key leader within the Identity team you will lead strategy and architecture, create road maps and ensure the business aligns to the relevant security standards.

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated experience driving Identity Architecture within an enterprise environment
• Ability to develop and drive strategy and governance
• Proven ability delivering complex architectures for major projects to successful outcomes
• Leadership experience within a transformation environment
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship building experience

Our client is offering a full time permanent role and the opportunity to drive significant improvements across their Identity landscape. They offer a hybrid work environment with a requirement to be on site 3 days per week at their inner suburbs offices. Offices are on both tram and train lines with parking available on site if required.

For more information feel free to contact Ben Austin at ben.austin@talentinternational.com

Key Responsibilities

• Design a secure, scalable cloud architecture to process 1,000+ hours of video daily.
• Define multi-tenant infrastructure, data pipelines, and GPU-accelerated processing.
• Recommend tech stack, frameworks, and cloud services for video analytics SaaS.
• Oversee architecture reviews and guide development milestones.
• Optimise cloud costs and support monetisation strategies.
• Lead cloud migration and vendor selection (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Establish DevOps and scaling principles for continuous delivery.
• Ensure security, privacy compliance, and encryption standards.
• Mentor teams in cloud-native and GPU optimisation.
• Implement inference serving infrastructure with auto-scaling.
• Apply FinOps strategies for GPU resource optimisation.
• Set up monitoring and observability for GPU and video performance.
• Integrate RBAC, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Define CI/CD workflows for media pipelines and ML model deployment.

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in cloud architecture, preferably SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience with secure, multi-tenant cloud systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Prior experience in DevOps, MLOps, CI/CD, GPU orchestration (Kubernetes + NVIDIA), and dynamic scaling.
• Skilled in designing scalable cloud architectures for burst processing.
• Experience with real-time GPU-accelerated video processing or edge computing.
• Knowledge of SaaS commercialization, especially in startups.
• MLOps expertise in model versioning, deployment (KServe, Triton), and experiment tracking (MLflow, Kubeflow).

** Must be based in Perth, WA with full unrestricted working rights. **

If you have the relevant experience and expertise listed above and are interested in finding out more about this key role, please forward your updated CV to Huma Irshad by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button.

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