About the role:

You’ll collaborate with customers, sales teams, and technical stakeholders to understand business needs, demonstrate solutions, develop proof of concepts, and help lay the foundation for successful project delivery. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technical expertise with customer engagement to drive meaningful business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support pre-sales engagements for Red Hat OpenShift opportunities
• Gather and analyse customer requirements
• Lead technical workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept activities
• Design container platform solutions aligned to customer needs
• Develop Statements of Work (SoW) and contribute to services pricing and scoping
• Collaborate with sales, pre-sales, and technical teams throughout the sales lifecycle
• Build strong customer relationships and provide trusted technical advice
• Travel to customer sites as required

Skills Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift
• Proven experience in a customer-facing technical consulting or pre-sales role
• Strong understanding of containerisation, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies
• Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into technical solutions
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building abilities

Desirable:

• Experience with SUSE Rancher
• Background working within telecommunications, managed services, or large enterprise environments

Please apply for a confidential chat with Bini.

Brisbane | Contract Opportunity

For over 30 years, Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry-leading support, exclusive contractor benefits, and our world-class digital platform, ENGAGE.

About the Role

As the Technical Test Lead, you will be responsible for designing and implementing modern automation frameworks, establishing quality engineering standards, and embedding automated quality controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Working across multiple SaaS platforms and integrations, you will combine technical leadership with hands-on delivery to improve release confidence, accelerate execution, and build long-term automation capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable automation frameworks across API, integration, and UI layers.
• Drive an API-first testing approach including contract testing, integration testing, and end-to-end validation.
• Establish reusable automation assets and engineering standards that promote maintainability and scalability.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and support reliable test orchestration across environments.
• Lead secure test data management practices, including provisioning, masking, obfuscation, and lifecycle management.
• Define and execute performance, compatibility, and non-functional testing strategies.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, standards development, and engineering uplift.
• Coach internal teams and vendors, fostering quality engineering best practices and communities of practice.
• Develop and monitor quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting focused on automation health, coverage, stability, and pipeline effectiveness.

About You

You are a technically strong quality engineering professional who enjoys solving complex automation challenges and leading by example.

You will bring:

• Proven experience as a Technical Test Lead, Lead SDET, Senior SDET, or Quality Engineering Lead.
• Strong software engineering capability with experience designing and building automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Deep expertise in API automation, contract testing, integration testing, and end-to-end orchestration.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, automated quality gates, and GitHub-based workflows.
• Experience implementing test data management, masking, and obfuscation solutions.
• Hands-on experience delivering performance and compatibility testing within cloud-hosted environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and mentoring skills with the ability to uplift teams and influence engineering practices.
• A pragmatic mindset with the ability to balance strategic architecture decisions with hands-on delivery.

Technical Environment

Experience with the following technologies will be highly regarded:

• Playwright
• Karate
• GitHub & GitHub Actions
• AWS EC2
• DataMasque
• Modern API testing and automation frameworks
• Cloud-native delivery environments

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to shape and lead a modern API-first quality engineering capability.
• Work across a complex, enterprise-scale SaaS and integration ecosystem.
• High-impact role with significant influence on engineering practices and delivery outcomes.
• Supportive contracting experience through Talent’s market-leading ENGAGE platform.

If you’re passionate about quality engineering, automation at scale, and building modern testing capabilities, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to learn more.

gary.murray@talentinternational.com

0437 769 041

Job Title: Mid-Level AI Analyst – Governance & Ethics

Location: Sydney CBD
Employment Type: Full-time / long term contract opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Mid-Level AI Analyst, and this role is ideal for someone passionate about AI governance, ethics, and responsible AI frameworks, who enjoys translating complex technical risks into practical advice and solutions.

You will work across government, enterprise, and technical teams to assess AI initiatives, monitor compliance, and support the implementation of robust governance processes. This is not a policy-making role , it’s analytical, advisory, and deeply hands-on, offering exposure to cutting-edge AI projects in a high-impact environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct AI governance and ethics assessments across projects, identifying potential risks, bias, fairness, and compliance issues.
• Support implementation of AI governance frameworks, approval gates, and monitoring processes.
• Collaborate with policy, IT, legal, privacy, and business teams to provide clear, actionable guidance on AI projects.
• Document and report findings, including risk assessments, dashboards, and governance committee materials.
• Stay up to date with AI regulatory requirements, privacy laws, and ethical AI principles, ensuring projects align with best practice.
• Assist in embedding responsible AI practices and frameworks.

Skills & Experience
Essential:

• Hands-on experience in AI governance, ethics, and responsible AI frameworks.
• Understanding of ethical AI principles: bias/fairness, & transparency.
• Experience assessing AI projects for compliance, risk, and governance concerns.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to review data sets, model outputs, or AI tools.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar governance/tracking tools.
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical risks into clear advice for senior management.

Desirable / Nice-to-Have:

• Background in government/public sector, consulting, finance, regulated industries, academia, or tech companies with AI governance exposure.
• Knowledge of AI regulatory requirements, PIAs, or model risk frameworks.
• Experience supporting governance committees, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.

“If AI governance and ethics excite you, we want to hear from you!”

How to Apply:
Please submit your CV and cover letter in Word format by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button below.

A leading Financial Services organisation is seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect with strong HR domain knowledge to join their team on a permanent basis.

Working within a high-performing Solution Architecture practice, you will partner closely with senior stakeholders across People, Corporate Affairs & Community (CAC), Technology and broader enterprise functions to drive strategic architecture outcomes across a large and complex environment.

This is a highly visible leadership role focused on shaping and delivering end-to-end technology solutions across key People & Culture initiatives spanning Talent Acquisition, Core HR, Payroll, Learning & Development, Employee Services, Workplace Relations and Digital Enablement. You will play a critical role in driving AI adoption, modernisation and transformation initiatives across the broader HR technology landscape.

Operating as a trusted advisor to the business, you will be responsible for defining and socialising architecture strategy, execution roadmaps and future-state solution designs aligned to enterprise objectives. You will also provide governance, architectural oversight and leadership across multiple transformation initiatives while mentoring and leading a team of Solution Architects.

This role requires a hands-on leader who combines strong enterprise architecture capability with exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. You will work closely with senior executives and business leaders to support investment decisions, drive simplification initiatives and uplift organisational capability across Data & AI.

To be successful in this role, you will bring extensive Solution Architecture experience within large, complex enterprise environments together with strong exposure to HR and People & Culture domains. Experience designing and implementing enterprise Data & AI solutions within production environments will be highly regarded.

To be considered for this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (e.g. TOGAF)
• Extensive Solution Architecture leadership experience within large enterprise organisations
• Strong experience across HR, People & Culture or workforce-related technology domains with proven experience working with HR technology platforms and enterprise people systems
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Data & AI solutions would be highly regarded
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills
• Experience partnering with executive-level business and technology stakeholders
• Strong people leadership capability with experience mentoring or leading architecture teams
• Experience driving simplification, modernisation and transformation initiatives
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, security, risk and compliance requirements
• The ability to navigate complex enterprise environments and manage competing stakeholder priorities
• A pragmatic and commercially focused approach to problem solving and decision making

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a major enterprise organisation undertaking significant investment across People, Data & AI and digital transformation initiatives. An attractive salary package, annual performance bonus and flexible hybrid working arrangements are on offer for the successful candidate.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online.

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.