They are building an enablement-led Data, Insights & AI function that will provide trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability and self-service enablement across the business.
This role will own the engineering platform that underpins every downstream analytics, reporting and AI capability.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll remain close to the platform, designing pipelines, reviewing code, improving reliability and solving production issues while setting the standards, operating rhythm and engineering discipline that allow a small but growing team to scale safely.

Required Skills:

• Significant hands-on experience operating production data platforms, ideally including Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, or equivalent cloud-native data platforms such as Azure Synapse, Snowflake or AWS data services
• Strong experience across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, deployment and operational support of enterprise data platforms
• Proven experience designing and scaling medallion-style data architectures across bronze, silver and gold layers, or equivalent layered data modelling patterns
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Comfortable working with CI/CD, GitHub or Azure DevOps, version control and modern engineering workflows
• Experience setting engineering standards across ingestion, transformation, testing, observability, deployment and code review
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, including SLAs, incident response, runbooks, monitoring and post-incident improvement
• Experience leading small but growing technical teams with a coaching-led, hands-on leadership style
• Ability to review technical designs, challenge trade-offs and act as the technical authority for the data platform
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Commercial awareness around platform cost, cloud usage, workload right-sizing and cost transparency

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience working in financial services or another regulated environment
• Exposure to FinOps practices for cloud data platforms, particularly Azure or Databricks
• Familiarity with AI/ML production platform patterns such as MLflow, model registry or feature stores
• Experience with data product thinking, data contracts and certified datasets
• Experience working closely with analytics, governance, architecture, information security and risk teams
• Databricks, Azure, data engineering or cloud certifications

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a critical data platform where your technical leadership will have genuine visibility and impact.

You’ll suit this role if you are a builder at heart: someone who enjoys hands-on platform craft, develops engineers through the way work is done, and knows how to create standards that are practical, adopted and useful.

For a confidential chat, apply with an updated CV to JP Browne.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead | Program Performance, Data & Strategic Reporting

• Location: ACT-Based (Hybrid)
• Security Clearance: NV1-Cleared (Mandatory)
• Contract Length:12 months + 2 12 months extension (Based on the Department’s sole discretion)

About the Position

Some roles measure activity.

This role measures impact.

Working within a major government program environment, you’ll lead the design and ongoing evolution of an integrated ‘Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)’ framework that becomes the trusted source of truth for program performance, reporting and decision-making.

This is more than a reporting role. You’ll bring together program, financial and performance data, oversee independent evaluation activities, and develop meaningful insights that support strategic decisions across complex, multi-year initiatives.

Working closely with internal stakeholders and external delivery partners, you’ll combine MEL expertise with strong business intelligence capability to ensure reporting is accurate, accessible and aligned with government obligations.

If you enjoy turning complex data into meaningful stories, influencing better decisions and building reporting frameworks that genuinely drive outcomes, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of an integrated Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework.
• Develop and maintain interactive Power BI reporting solutions, data models and dashboards that support strategic decision-making.
• Oversee external evaluation providers and ensure quality, consistency and rigour across all MEL activities.
• Produce high-quality reporting, insights and performance information that supports program governance and executive decision-making.

What We Are Looking For

• Demonstrated experience leading Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks across complex programs or portfolios.
• Advanced Power BI, Excel and data modelling capability, including experience building scalable reporting and dashboard solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience translating program, financial and performance data into meaningful insights that influence decision-making.

Technology & Environment

• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)
• Power BI, Excel, DAX and Data Modelling
• Business Intelligence, Data Integration & Reporting
• Program Performance, Governance & Executive Reporting

A Quick Note Before You Apply

This role is unlikely to suit candidates whose experience has been limited to reporting or dashboard development without broader ownership of monitoring, evaluation, learning or program performance frameworks

Success in this role requires balancing strategic thinking, analytical capability and stakeholder engagement to deliver reporting that supports meaningful decisions, not just metrics.

Applicants must be Australian Citizens, hold a minimum NV1 Security Clearance and be available to work in a hybrid Canberra-based environment.

To showcase your interest for the position, click on ‘APPLY’ on our website or for any further information, please contact Sanat Anmadwar at Sanat.Anmadwar@talentinternational.com. We look forward to seeing how your expertise can help us achieve excellence!

Senior Data Modeller / Azure Data Engineer

Long term Contract | Immediate Start | Flexible Hybrid | Sydney (Eveleigh/Redfern)

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Modeller / Azure Data Engineer to join a major transformation program within a large NSW Government organisation. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in designing and delivering a modern data platform while helping shape the organisation’s future-state data architecture.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, working with imperfect legacy environments, and combining strong data modelling expertise with hands-on Azure data engineering capabilities.

About the Role
As a Senior Data Modeller / Azure Data Engineer, you will work closely with Data Engineers, Technical Business Analysts, business stakeholders, and external vendors to design, build, and optimise enterprise data solutions.
You will be responsible for developing dimensional data models, supporting data migration initiatives, improving data quality, and contributing to the design of a scalable Azure-based data platform.
This is not a pure modelling role. We’re looking for someone who can confidently move between data architecture, modelling, engineering, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and develop enterprise-scale dimensional data models and star schemas
* Analyse and interpret complex legacy data structures
* Profile source data and identify data quality issues
* Build and support Azure-based data engineering solutions
* Develop and optimise SQL queries, data pipelines, and transformations
* Support data migration and integration activities
* Create and maintain data documentation and technical findings
* Collaborate with business stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams
* Support the redevelopment of Power BI reporting solutions
* Contribute to the design of the organisation’s future-state data platform
Required Skills & Experience
* Strong experience in Dimensional Data Modelling and Star Schema design
* Hands-on experience with:
o Azure Synapse Analytics
o Azure SQL
o Azure Data Lake Storage
o Python and PySpark
o Git / Version Control
* Advanced SQL skills, including complex data analysis and reconciliation
* Experience implementing Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers)
* Strong understanding of data warehousing principles and best practices
* Experience working with large, complex, and imperfect datasets
* Ability to investigate, diagnose, and document data quality issues
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Highly Regarded
* Microsoft Dynamics CRM
* Dataverse
* Power BI
* Metadata-driven ELT frameworks
* Data migration and modernisation projects
* NSW Government experience

What’s on Offer?
* Immediate start opportunity
* Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential
* Flexible hybrid working environment
* Opportunity to contribute to a significant data transformation program
* Collaborative and supportive team environment
* Exposure to modern Azure technologies and enterprise-scale data initiatives

If you are a hands-on Data Modeller who enjoys working across both modelling and engineering disciplines and wants to make a tangible impact on a large-scale transformation program, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact anastasia.kikteva@talentinternational.com.

We’re seeking an experienced IT Support Consultant with strong Microsoft endpoint management expertise to join a large-scale digital workplace transformation project.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in modernising enterprise environments, supporting Windows 11 deployments, endpoint management, security uplift initiatives, and workplace technology improvements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing and supporting Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM/SCCM) environments
• Delivering Windows 11 deployments and operating system upgrades
• Application packaging, software distribution, and patch management
• PowerShell scripting and automation
• Supporting Active Directory, Group Policy, Entra ID, DNS, and DHCP
• Managing enterprise VMware environments
• Collaborating with project teams to deliver workplace transformation initiatives
• Producing technical documentation and providing expert technical guidance

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience with MECM/SCCM administration and design
• Experience with OS deployments, application packaging, and software updates
• Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation skills
• Strong Windows Server and Windows 11 administration experience
• Knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP
• Experience working within large enterprise environments
• VMware administration experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable

• Microsoft certifications
• Experience working within government or highly regulated environments
• Knowledge of cyber security frameworks and governance standards

What’s On Offer

• 6-month contract opportunity
• Competitive rate of $119 per hour (inclusive)
• Major enterprise transformation project
• Brisbane-based role with hybrid working arrangements
• Opportunity to work with modern Microsoft technologies and large-scale environments

If you’re an experienced Endpoint, MECM, SCCM, or Systems Engineer looking for your next contract opportunity, Apply now or reach out to david.reynolds@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Our client is a leader in the financial services sector, undergoing exciting technology change.

As part of this strategy, they are looking for a Data Analytics Lead who will help shape the future of their analytics capability.

They are building an enablement-led function that creates trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability, and self-service enablement across the business. You’ll own the layer that connects the data platform to real business decisions.

Required Skills:

• Leadership in analytics engineering, BI, or data insights, operating in an enablement-first model (not a centralized reporting factory)
• Hands-on experience designing and operating a semantic and metric layer, including dbt-style modelling (or equivalent)
• Strong understanding and experience running a certified-dataset programme (trusted datasets tied to decision use-cases with named owners)
• Strong Power BI expertise, including:
• modelling and performance
• governance approaches and BI standards
• defining and enforcing BI standards across teams
• Strong SQL skills, with comfort using Python for analytics tasks
• Proven experience delivering data literacy programmes and/or building a community of practice
• Stakeholder management skills, including translating business priorities into data products and pragmatically declining requests that should not sit centrally
• Coaching and advisory capability to improve adoption and confidence over time

Nice to Have Skills:

• Exposure to Azure Databricks SQL and lakehouse analytics patterns
• Experience with AI-enabled insight generation and/or AI design review

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the data analytics function, working with a highly collaborative and supportive team.
For a confidential chat, apply to JP Browne