Auckland CBD | Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days WFH)

Join a global SaaS organisation powering customer engagement and loyalty experiences for some of the world’s most recognised brands.

Talent’s client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect to help shape the future of a large-scale customer engagement platform used by hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. This is a strategic role that sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and Architecture, influencing how complex technology decisions are made while helping teams deliver scalable, customer-focused solutions.

You’ll work across domains including loyalty, rewards, messaging, personalisation, identity, consent, and consumer profiling, partnering closely with senior Product and Engineering leaders to solve meaningful business challenges and guide platform evolution.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape technology strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Lead architectural thinking from problem discovery through to solution delivery.
• Provide guidance and oversight across cloud-native, distributed systems and integration solutions.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and opportunities early in the development lifecycle.
• Define architectural guardrails, standards, and best practices.
• Influence senior stakeholders and challenge thinking constructively to drive better outcomes.
• Help shape approaches to AI-assisted engineering and architecture practices as the business continues to evolve.
• Collaborate closely with Architecture, Security, Cloud, and Engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years’ experience as a Solution Architect, Platform Architect, or Software Architect.
• Strong background designing web-based backend and integration solutions.
• Experience designing cloud-native, distributed systems in modern cloud environments.
• Previous software engineering or development experience with the ability to engage credibly with technical teams.
• Proven experience partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A pragmatic approach to architecture, balancing long-term vision with business realities.

Nice to Have

• Experience within SaaS or platform-based organisations.
• Exposure to domains such as loyalty, rewards, personalisation, messaging, identity, consent, or customer data platforms.
• Experience with Azure/.NET environments (although other cloud and technology backgrounds are welcomed).
• Experience improving architecture practices, governance, or operating models.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development and engineering practices.

About You

You’ll be someone who enjoys influencing rather than directing, building trusted relationships across teams, and bringing fresh perspectives to complex challenges. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, balancing competing priorities, and helping teams make sound technology decisions without becoming a bottleneck.

What’s In It For You?

• 15% Short-Term Incentive (STI) bonus based on individual and company performance
• Hybrid working model with flexibility built in.
• Additional paid wellness leave each year.
• Birthday leave.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Free access to online learning platforms.
• Work-from-home setup allowance.
• Fully funded health insurance.
• Life and income protection insurance.
• Subsidised parking.
• Social club, volunteering initiatives, and regular team events.
• Summer hours programme.
• Modern Auckland CBD office.

If you’re passionate about shaping technology strategy, influencing product direction, and helping engineering teams solve meaningful problems at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

We are partnering with a leading enterprise technology and telecommunications organisation to recruit an experienced Consultant Architect to support major enterprise and financial services customers across large-scale ICT transformation initiatives.

This is a highly customer-facing role where you will act as the end-to-end solution owner across complex enterprise environments, working closely with account teams, technical specialists, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders to design strategic, commercially viable, and future-ready technology solutions.

You will play a critical role in shaping enterprise ICT strategies, leading customer engagements, producing solution artefacts and roadmaps, and articulating complex multi-domain solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys operating across architecture, strategy, stakeholder engagement, solution design, and enterprise transformation within complex and highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end enterprise solution architecture for strategic customer engagements
• Lead customer workshops and executive-level discussions across business and technology stakeholders
• Develop enterprise ICT strategies, transformation roadmaps, and solution recommendations
• Design integrated multi-domain solutions across networking, security, contact centre, cloud, and telecommunications environments
• Produce high-quality solution artefacts including Statements of Work (SOW), technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and commercial solution inputs
• Work closely with sales, delivery, engineering, and specialist architecture teams to shape customer outcomes
• Coordinate technical and commercial inputs across multiple stakeholders and vendors
• Support bid responses including RFPs, RFIs, and RFTs
• Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers within highly regulated industries
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, market trends, and vendor capabilities

Requirements

• Strong experience working as a Consultant Architect, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Technical Consultant within enterprise ICT environments
• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder engagement capability, including C-level communication and presentation skills
• Experience designing enterprise-scale ICT and telecommunications solutions across complex environments
• Strong understanding of:
  • SD-WAN
  • Enterprise networking
  • Security & SASE
  • Contact Centre platforms
  • Cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments
• Exposure to technologies such as:
  • Palo Alto
  • Cisco
  • Meraki
  • Zscaler
  • NICE
  • Genesys
  • AWS / Azure / GCP
• Experience producing solution artefacts, technical documentation, commercial inputs, and Statements of Work
• Strong understanding of enterprise delivery, governance, and solution lifecycle management
• Experience supporting large enterprise or regulated industry customers highly regarded
• Financial services, banking, insurance, government, or telecommunications industry experience – A MUST
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to align technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Experience working within large enterprise customer environments
• Experience supporting complex transformation and migration initiatives
• Exposure to enterprise networking, cyber security, and contact centre transformation programs
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and/or ITIL

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click “APPLY NOW“. Alternatively, if you are keen to discuss further, please email me at alex.nguyen@talentinternational.com

A leading insurance services provider is seeking a Lead Solution Architect with strong general insurance experience to join their team on an initial twelve month contract.

Working in a large, dynamic and distributed architecture practice, you will be joining an in-flight transformation program where you will be responsible for the end-to-end design and definition of technical solutions across a wide range of technologies and business processes. You will work closely with enterprise architecture and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with the organisation’s technology direction, while providing guidance and advice to business stakeholders and ensuring outcomes are fit for purpose and aligned to the broader roadmap.

You will play a key role in leading solution design activities, collaborating across teams, and providing technical leadership to both internal stakeholders and external vendors.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (i.e. TOGAF)
• Demonstrated Solution Architecture experience gained within large, complex environments
• Strong experience in solution design and system development within complex architecture landscapes
• Proven general insurance experience is highly regarded
• Experience with Guidewire implementations and integration would be advantageous
• Proven experience working on core system transformation programs migrating from legacy to modern technology stacks
• Ability to develop high-level solution designs and contribute to business cases for new initiatives
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and guide decision-making
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams and providing technical leadership to vendors
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to consult and provide advice to internal stakeholders

This is a Sydney-based role where you will be required to be in the office at least two days per week.

An attractive daily rate is on offer for the right candidate – to be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online!

Senior Enterprise Architect – Geospatial & Digital Twin

Location: Redfern, Sydney (Hybrid: Tues & Wed in-office)

Contract: 6 months initially, with strong likelihood of extension

Rate: $1000-$1200/day + super

Seeking a strategic Senior Enterprise Architect to lead geospatial and digital twin architecture within a large infrastructure environment. This role is vital in supporting governance, strategic alignment, and digital transformation initiatives across major infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and govern enterprise-scale geospatial and digital twin ecosystems
• Lead architecture review boards and produce strategy documents, standards, and patterns
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across business and technical teams
• Support cloud, security, data, and integration architectures aligned with enterprise goals
• Provide guidance on sector-specific platforms like Autodesk, BIM 360, and CAFM/IWMS

Key Criteria:

• 7+ years enterprise architecture experience, with proven geospatial / digital twin expertise (ESRI, ArcGIS)
• Strong understanding of construction, infrastructure, or property sectors
• Experience leading architecture governance and stakeholder engagement
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and data architectures
• TOGAF or similar certification highly regarded

If you are interested in this role please submit your cover letter & CV application in Word format only by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button below or email to anna.au@talentinternational.com

We are partnering with a leading financial services organisation to recruit an experienced Solution Designer with strong SAS expertise to support a critical enterprise regulatory and risk data platform.

This role sits within a large-scale transformation environment where the organisation is managing current-state SAS platforms while progressing toward a future-state Snowflake ecosystem. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting operational and regulatory initiatives, designing scalable solutions, and ensuring governance and compliance standards are maintained across the platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working across architecture, solution design, stakeholder engagement, and technical delivery within a complex enterprise banking environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and document current-state SAS-based solutions
• Conduct impact assessments for operational and regulatory change requests
• Produce solution options, recommendations, and technical specifications
• Support delivery teams across the SDLC lifecycle
• Provide SME guidance to developers, architects, and business stakeholders
• Ensure solutions align with governance, compliance, and regulatory obligations
• Collaborate closely with architecture and future-state Snowflake teams
• Support ongoing platform stability, enhancements, and operational delivery
• Contribute to migration planning and transition initiatives
• Participate in stakeholder discussions and technical governance forums

Requirements

• Proven experience working within complex SAS environments across enterprise-scale platforms in Banking/Financial Services exp.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Base SAS programming and advanced SAS development
• Solid understanding of SAS macros, data processing, execution management, and data workflows
• Experience supporting regulatory, risk, or large-scale data platforms within complex environments
• Exposure to IFRS9 and/or RWA frameworks highly regarded
• Experience working within Linux/Unix enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies and enterprise delivery frameworks
• Experience using tools such as Jenkins, Jira, and Confluence
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exposure to Snowflake, cloud technologies, or open-source platforms advantageous

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click APPLY NOW. Alternatively, if you are keen to discuss further, please email me at alex.nguyen@talentinternational.com

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.

• 3 month initial contract + ongoing extensions
• Complex office relocation project for a major education provider
• Competitive rate on offer

Our client is currently an experienced Business Analyst to support a major office relocation and workplace transformation program. This role will work across business, IT, facilities, and external vendors to ensure a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations.
You’ll play a critical role in understanding business needs, documenting requirements, coordinating dependencies, and supporting delivery across technology, workplace, and operational change streams.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business and operational requirements related to office relocation and workplace change
• Work closely with stakeholders across IT, facilities, HR, vendors, and business units
• Support planning and coordination across technology moves, workplace setup, and business continuity
• Document current and future state processes, dependencies, and impacts
• Assist with cutover planning, risk management, and readiness activities
• Support testing, UAT, and validation of IT, AV, network, and end?user services
• Contribute to change, communication, and transition activities

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst on office relocation, site move, or workplace transformation projects
• Experience with large office moves or multi?site relocations
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and dependencies
• Comfortable working in fast?paced, delivery-focused environments

• Exposure to AV, networks, end?user technology, or building services
• Experience working with vendors and external service providers
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience working across IT infrastructure, end?user computing, networks, or facilities projects

Benefits:

• Interview and start ASAP
• Competitive rate on offer
• Large program of work – good chance of multiple contract extensions

If you would like to know more please contact Sean Mantri on 0420 425 141 / sean.mantri@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now!

We’re partnering with a highly regarded enterprise organisation undertaking a major customer and technology transformation program, and we’re seeking an experienced Salesforce Solution Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering strategic digital outcomes.

This is an opportunity to work on a large-scale transformation initiative focused on improving customer experience, modernising platforms, and enabling smarter service delivery through Salesforce technologies.

As the Salesforce Solution Architect, you’ll lead end-to-end solution architecture across a complex enterprise environment, designing scalable and integrated Salesforce solutions that align with long-term business strategy and enterprise architecture principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution design across Salesforce platforms and integrated enterprise systems
• Design scalable solutions across Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, workflow automation, and integrations
• Define API-led and event-driven integration patterns
• Produce solution options, architecture artefacts, and technical decision documentation
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including scalability, resilience, security, and performance
• Provide architectural governance, mentoring, and technical leadership to delivery teams
• Support transformation delivery through pragmatic and commercially focused architecture decisions
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to align solutions with strategic objectives

Skills and experience

• Proven experience delivering Salesforce architecture within large-scale transformation programs
• Strong expertise across Salesforce platforms including Service Cloud and Experience Cloud
• Experience designing enterprise integrations and modern architecture patterns
• Ability to balance business outcomes, technical quality, delivery timelines, and risk
• Strong communication and storytelling skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Salesforce Architecture certifications
• TOGAF or broader enterprise architecture exposure highly regarded

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Alistair.barr@talentinternational.com for further information.

Talent are currently seeking a SAP Architect to join a utilities organisation based in Fortitude Valley for a 12 month contract on a number of initiatives.

Contract details:

• 12 months + potential extension
• Fortitude Valley location (2 days WFH pw)
• Up to $1249.40/day inc super (PAYG only)

3 sequential SAP projects will be undertaken, covering:

• Integration between SAP and 3rd party SaaS for 2 integrations, both to be developed and deployed by our AMS (Dyflex) but the design requirements and documentation to be reviewed and the build and deployment to be overseen from a technical perspective by the Architect.
• Asset manager mobile upgrade to 2410 (or 2505),
• Dynamic forms implementation (going to be heavy consulting type focus first then guiding how Dynamic Forms integrates to SSAM)
• BPC Replacement with Group Reporting SAP module.

Requirements:

• Candidate needs to have worked with SAP in a technical role
• Understanding of SAP S/4 on RISE private cloud, SAP Cloud Platforms, SAP BTP.
• Understanding of SAP BDC and awareness of BW modernisation
• Need willingness to learn about the Products (SSAM, Dynamic Forms etc) if they don’t already have experience and for them to know where they would go to look to find out about these products.
• (For the BPC replacement) having an understanding for SAP BDC and awareness of BW modernisation is really important and would be a significant decision maker for me.
• Wider SAP architecture skills in identity management, integration and are interested in Signavio, Joule and automation using BTP SAP Build platform, that would help us a lot with our long-term SAP strategy.
• No deep SAP expertise in the functional operation of these solutions, SMEs are available to cover the detail. You will need to be able to gather architecture requirements, learn and understand how the solutions integrate with the core SAP platform and be able to work with our SAP AMS provider to ensure they align to architectural governance requirements for design and approvals.

Please apply now for immediate consideration or contact Mats Rorvik on 0450 478 735 or mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com

Technical Lead // Contract // Government

We are seeking a highly capable Technical Lead to play a pivotal role in a large-scale, multi-stream transformation program. This is not a traditional hands-on engineering role, it is a Technical Delivery leadership position requiring ownership, coordination, and influence across complex enterprise environments.

Working in close partnership with the Senior Project Manager, you will own and drive end-to-end technical delivery, ensuring multiple workstreams across integration, data platforms, and applications are aligned, sequenced, and delivered successfully.

Responsibilities Include:

• Leading technical delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams (integration, data, platforms)
• Translating architecture into clear, executable delivery plans
• Partnering with architects, engineers, vendors, and business stakeholders
• Driving Agile execution, backlog readiness, and delivery cadence
• Managing technical dependencies, risks, and cross-program impacts
• Acting as the key escalation point for technical challenges and blockers

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Integration Lead / Platform Lead in complex enterprise programs.
• Strong background across enterprise integration, event-driven architecture, and data platforms
• Experience working with Salesforce, Snowflake & Kafka
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across multiple streams, not just hands-on development within one.

Due to the nature of the Project, the candidate Must Have experience working with Salesforce, Snowflake, Kafka and Integration projects.

If you are looking to step into a position where you can drive real delivery outcomes across a high-profile transformation, then apply today!

Senior Delivery Manager / Delivery Lead (DevOps & Agile Focus)

We’re looking for a hands-on delivery leader with a strong focus on software delivery operations – not a traditional PMO/project governance style Project Manager. This role is centred around enabling high-performing multidisciplinary delivery teams and driving agile software delivery outcomes across a large-scale, business-critical digital program.

Key Focus Areas

• Coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams including BAs, UX/UI, developers, testers, data specialists, and vendors
• Enabling software delivery by proactively removing blockers, managing dependencies, and improving team flow
• Facilitating Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and release planning
• Driving delivery pace, workflow optimisation, and continuous improvement across the SDLC
• Supporting and enabling DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment coordination, and environment optimisation
• Establishing delivery tools, frameworks, processes, and Agile ways of working
• Working closely with Product Owners and technical teams to manage priorities and delivery outcomes
• Overseeing software delivery from planning through to release within a fast-paced, evolving environment

Key Experience Required

• 5+ years’ experience in a senior IT Delivery Manager / Delivery Lead environment
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and DevOps principles
• Experience leading delivery across complex, data-driven software projects
• Proven ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, coaching, and conflict resolution skills
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical squads and external vendors
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, release management, and modern delivery practices
• Strong working knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Microsoft Project
• Comfortable operating in environments with evolving requirements, processes, and systems

Suitable Backgrounds

This role would suit someone operating as a:

• Technical Delivery Manager / Delivery Lead
• Delivery Manager (Software / DevOps)
• Program Delivery Lead

This is not a classic PMO-style Project Manager role focused primarily on governance, budgeting, reporting, or project tracking. The emphasis is on enabling technical delivery teams, Agile execution, DevOps capability, and ensuring successful software delivery outcomes.

About the Company

My client is a leading Australian-owned B2B IT distributor delivering innovative technologies across government, enterprise, commercial, and mid-market sectors. With a strong reputation for expertise and customer success, they partner with some of the industry’s most respected vendors to help organisations create smarter, healthier, and more productive workplaces.

About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Business Development Manager to join my client’s Modern Workplace team and lead the growth of a new portfolio across ANZ.

This role is ideal for a commercially driven sales professional who enjoys building relationships, identifying new opportunities, and working across a dynamic ecosystem of channel partners, IT integrators, commercial furniture businesses, and A&D firms.

You’ll play a key role in driving revenue growth, increasing market share, and positioning these products as a market leader in modern workplace solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive new business opportunities and revenue growth across existing and new accounts
• Build strong relationships with channel partners and key stakeholders
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies and thought leadership campaigns
• Present tailored workplace solutions to prospects and end-users
• Coordinate pricing and product positioning strategies
• Maintain accurate sales pipeline management and forecasting
• Deliver product training internally and externally
• Recruit and onboard new channel partners
• Collaborate closely with product management and vendor stakeholders
• Support promotional initiatives and stock movement strategies
• Present solutions to key project stakeholders and decision-makers

About You

You are a proactive and relationship-focused sales professional with 2-4+ years experience in:

• Business development and channel sales
• IT, workplace technology, AV, furniture, or commercial solutions
• Building and managing strategic partnerships
• Pipeline generation and revenue growth
• Presenting and influencing stakeholders at all levels

You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy creating opportunities from scratch, and are motivated by achieving commercial outcomes.

Why Join?

• Work with an innovative and growing modern workplace portfolio
• Strong earning potential with a competitive base + super + $50k comms (uncapped)
• Hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 from home)
• Collaborative and high-performing culture
• Opportunity to make a genuine impact across the ANZ market
• Career growth within a respected Australian technology distributor

If you’re passionate about modern workplace innovation and want to join a business with strong momentum and market presence, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.