Location: Brisbane, CBD

Duration: 3 months + 6 month extension

Rate: $80.86 per hour inc super // $646.91 per day inc super (based on 8 hours)

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Project Coordinator / Project Officer to support the delivery of several significant technology initiatives within a Queensland Government environment based in Brisbane, CBD.

The Role

You will support the Program Manager and wider project teams to keep projects organised, on track and progressing through key delivery milestones.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting project planning, scheduling and monitoring of project activities
• Coordinating project meetings, preparing agendas and minutes, and tracking actions through to completion
• Maintaining project governance documentation, reporting and project records
• Identifying, documenting and monitoring project risks and issues
• Supporting risk mitigation and escalation activities
• Coordinating UAT activities, including scheduling sessions, tracking feedback and following up defects
• Supporting change management and end-user training activities
• Building effective relationships with internal stakeholders, vendors and external government stakeholders
• Providing broader project and program assurance and coordination support as required

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally bring:

• Previous experience as a Project Coordinator, Project Officer, Project Support Officer or similar within an IT/ICT or digital project environment
• Strong project coordination skills across planning, reporting, governance and action tracking
• Experience using project management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, MS Project or Microsoft Teams Planner
• Experience coordinating or supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• An understanding of project risks, issues and governance processes
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word and SharePoint
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities
• A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary project teams
• Experience supporting cyber security, government, legal/document management or enterprise technology projects would be highly regarded.

If this opportunity sounds like the right fit for you hit apply or contact Anika on anika.starkey@talentinternational.com

Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, has been engaged by our long-standing client, a well-established organisation operating across the real estate and aged care sectors. We are seeking an experienced Project Support Coordinator to support several key business initiatives. This opportunity is ideally suited to someone seeking part-time work across three days per week, although full-time candidates will also be considered.

Role Title: Project Support Coordinator

Contract Length: Initial three-month contract with potential to extend

Location + WFH Flexibility: Onsite in the CBD

Working Arrangements: Part-time, three days per week preferred; full-time candidates also considered

Daily Pay: Up to $550 per day, including superannuation

Role Details:

* Establish and maintain due diligence packs, review document repositories and follow up outstanding information

* Review reports, identify key actions and coordinate deliverables with internal and external stakeholders

* Support app requirements gathering by developing checklists and preparing clear information for developers

* Assist with community site increases, including calculations, letters, mail merges and spreadsheet maintenance

Required Skills and Experience:

* Strong administration, executive assistance or project coordination experience

* Experience within paralegal, compliance, regulatory, property or local government environments is highly regarded

* Excellent organisation, communication and stakeholder management skills

* Proactive and accountable, with the ability to identify gaps and follow tasks through to completion

* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including basic Excel, mail merges and data validation

* Comfortable using AI tools and learning within a specialised environment

Additional Details & Benefits:

* Initial three-month contract with potential to extend

* Flexible part-time opportunity across three days per week, with full-time applicants also considered

* Exposure to high-priority projects and senior stakeholders across an established Australian organisation

To Apply:

If this sounds like your next opportunity or you would like to hear more, please “apply now” and submit your resume!

Workday Financials Functional Consultant

We are currently seeking an intermediate-level Workday Financials Functional Consultant to support a major Federal Government transformation program.

This is a great opportunity for someone with practical Workday Financials experience who is looking to build on their consulting capability and work across a large-scale implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and analyse business and functional requirements
• Support the design and configuration of Workday Financials solutions
• Participate in workshops, solution design sessions and prototyping
• Assist with testing, defect resolution and implementation activities
• Provide functional input across finance processes and system configuration
• Work closely with project managers, business stakeholders and technical teams
• Support project reporting and delivery activities

About You

• Around 2-5 years’ experience working with Workday, ERP or enterprise financial systems
• Experience with Workday Financials highly desirable
• Good understanding of financial accounting and finance business processes
• Previous ERP experience such as Workday, Oracle or SAP
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience supporting system implementations, upgrades or transformation projects
• Workday Financials certification or exposure to an end-to-end Workday implementation will be highly regarded

Security Requirements

As this role is supporting a Federal Government program, candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance.

If you have experience across Workday Financials and are looking to take the next step in your consulting career, please get in touch for further information.

Location: Open to candidates based in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane, with travel to Canberra likely to be required.

Apply now or contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with a passion for AI, cloud technologies, and modern data engineering practices. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex integration challenges, leveraging AI to improve engineering outcomes, and building scalable data solutions within AWS.

The successful candidate will work on a range of cloud integration initiatives, including integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with AWS services, while helping shape next-generation AI-enabled data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integration solutions.
• Lead and deliver MCP server integrations with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and optimise data solutions using Databricks and modern data engineering best practices.
• Leverage AI tools and techniques to improve engineering productivity, automation, and solution delivery.
• Build and optimise data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows.
• Collaborate with software engineers, solution architects, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, security, governance, and performance across data platforms.
• Support cloud migration and modernisation initiatives where required.
• Document technical solutions and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar data-focused engineering role.
• Strong background in modern data engineering principles and best practices.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with Databricks, including building and optimising data pipelines and working with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
• Strong experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Redshift, ECS, IAM, API Gateway, or similar.
• Experience building cloud-native data integration solutions.
• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrations, or the ability to quickly learn and implement them.
• Strong experience with Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark, and data orchestration tools.
• Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and modern integration patterns.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon Q, or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to data governance, security, and compliance frameworks.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about AI and continuously explores how it can improve engineering outcomes.
• Has a strong foundation in data engineering, Databricks, and AWS cloud technologies.
• Enjoys learning new technologies and solving complex integration challenges.
• Can work autonomously while collaborating effectively with cross-functional technical teams.
• Brings a proactive, innovative, and delivery-focused mindset.

Engagement

• Contract: 6 Months
• Start Date: ASAP
• Location: Hybrid/Flexible (subject to project requirements)
• Rate: Up to over $1,000 per day (including super)

Apply Now

If you’re a hands-on Data Engineer who thrives on solving complex technical challenges and wants to work at the forefront of AI, cloud, and modern data engineering apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

Job Summary / Overview

Lead/ Support project activities supporting road investment planning and transport portfolio investment processes. This role develops, maintains and quality-assures the policies, processes and tools used for budget submissions, portfolio coordination, investment prioritisation, project readiness and governance.

The position provides technical direction across investment planning activities and supports accurate, consistent and well-governed recommendations for management and committee consideration.

Key Responsibilities

* Lead the development and coordination of road investment planning processes including the 10 Year Unfunded Investment Program, Investment Readiness Funding program and priority project pipeline
* Oversee budget submission and portfolio investment processes including data collection, document review, stakeholder input and program records
* Maintain investment prioritisation methods and quality-assure portfolio inputs, scoring assumptions and recommendations
* Review transport business cases, funding submissions, project proposal reports and annual infrastructure planning inputs
* Coordinate consolidated deliverable schedules and manage risks against fixed government deadlines
* Prepare and review investment program advice, prioritisation outcomes and funding recommendations
* Consolidate portfolio information for budget submissions, committee papers, executive briefings and internal reporting
* Monitor key deliverables and escalate portfolio risks, issues and decisions
* Provide technical direction to Infrastructure Investment Planning Officers
* Develop and improve investment planning workflows, templates and processes
* Lead coordination with portfolio teams, project owners, Network Management, Planning, PMO and other relevant branches
* Prepare and present investment planning material for committees, working groups and relevant forums

Skills & Competencies

* Strong infrastructure investment planning and portfolio coordination capability
* Knowledge of budget submissions, funding processes and investment governance
* Experience reviewing business cases, project proposals and infrastructure planning inputs
* Ability to apply and quality-assure investment prioritisation methods
* Strong analytical skills with attention to data quality, assumptions and supporting records
* Ability to coordinate complex deliverables against fixed deadlines
* Clear written communication and experience preparing executive, committee and internal reporting
* Strong stakeholder engagement and issue resolution skills
* Ability to provide technical guidance and promote consistent planning practices
* Sound judgement when escalating risks, issues and investment decisions

Apply Now

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Alternatively, for a confidential conversation, contact Jane Saxby, jane.saxby@talentinternational.com on 0423165998.

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