Technology Career Opportunities
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Candidates

Outback Talent is seeking Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people who are interested in building a career in technology, digital support, and defence-related technology pathways.

We work with government, defence, and enterprise organisations to help bridge the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent and meaningful careers in technology.

These opportunities are ideal for people who are curious, motivated, and keen to learn. You do not need to have a formal IT qualification to apply. What matters most is your interest in technology, your willingness to develop new skills, and your desire to build a long-term career in the sector.

Some opportunities may also provide a pathway into government and defence environments, including roles that support candidates to understand security clearance requirements and prepare for work in secure settings.

About the Opportunities

We are looking for candidates interested in roles across the technology including:

• Cyber security support
• Application support
• Service desk and technical support
• Cloud and infrastructure support
• Systems administration
• Digital operations
• IT project support
• Governance, risk and compliance
• Entry-level and pathway technology roles
• Government and defence technology pathways

These roles may suit people who are already working in IT, studying technology, or looking to transition into the technology sector.

Support Beyond Placement

Outback Talent is not just here to match you with a role. We support candidates through the process and beyond placement, including helping you understand what to expect, preparing for interviews, navigating workplace environments, and building confidence as you step into government, defence, or enterprise technology settings.

You will have someone in your corner as you move through the process and settle into your role.

About You

You may be a good fit if you:

• Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• Have an interest in technology, cyber security, digital systems, government, or defence pathways
• Are willing to learn and develop new technical skills
• Enjoy solving problems and supporting others
• Can communicate clearly and work well in a team
• Are reliable, motivated, and open to feedback

How to Apply

Please send through your resume and a brief cover note telling us why you are interested in technology and what kind of role or career pathway you would like to explore.

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

• 6 Month Contract – Government Agency
• Melbourne CBD Location – Hybrid Working Arrangement
• Hands-on experience testing Dynamics 365 CRM

We are seeking a Senior Test Analyst to support a major digital service transformation program. This role will take ownership of end-to-end testing across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Manage functional and non-functional testing across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Conduct SIT, UAT, regression, integration, performance and accessibility testing.
• Test REST and OData APIs using Postman and validate integrations with external systems.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using Selenium, EasyRepro, Cypress or similar tools.
• Validate data integrity, workflows, business rules, security roles and user permissions.

Key Skills and Experience

• At least five years’ experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• Strong hands-on experience testing Dynamics 365 CRM and Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
• Demonstrated API and integration testing experience, particularly using Postman.
• Experience across manual and automated testing methodologies and frameworks.
• Good understanding of Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and SharePoint.

What’s in it for you:

• 6 Month Contract
• Government Agency
• Melbourne CBD Location – Hybrid Working Arrangement

Apply now or for more information feel free to contact Sarah Jordan on sarah.jordan@talentinternational.com

Technical Lead – (Databricks) to support two strategic initiatives that will transform the way the organisation designs, manages, and consumes its enterprise data platforms.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, suited to someone who enjoys remaining close to the technology while providing design leadership, stakeholder engagement, and technical direction across the delivery lifecycle.

About the Role

Working within a high-performing data team, you will lead the technical design and implementation of modern data solutions on AWS and Databricks. You’ll be responsible for translating business requirements into scalable technical designs, producing low-level solution designs (LLDs), and contributing directly to development where required.

You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are aligned with both business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of enterprise data engineering initiatives.
• Produce high-quality low-level solution designs (LLDs) and technical specifications.
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions using AWS and Databricks.
• Remain hands-on with development, code reviews, and technical implementation.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to data engineers throughout delivery.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and data governance standards.
• Support deployment, testing, and production implementation activities.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a Technical Lead or Senior Data Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and building modern data platforms.
• Mandatory experience with Databricks.
• Strong AWS data platform experience (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR and related services desirable).
• Experience producing Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and technical architecture documentation.
• Strong coding capability with Python, SQL, or Spark.
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT solutions, and modern data architectures.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

What’s on Offer

• Six-month contract with an immediate start.
• Opportunity to lead two high-profile strategic data initiatives.
• Work on the modernisation of Virgin Australia’s enterprise data platform.
• Brisbane location
• 2-3 days WFH

If you’re an experienced Technical Lead or Senior Data Engineer ready to lead enterprise-scale data initiatives while staying hands-on with the technology, apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

We’re partnering with a leading Australian organisation to find an experienced Business Analyst to join a high-performing Digital team delivering innovative customer experience initiatives. This role will play a key part in a major Google Pay project, while also supporting a range of digital transformation initiatives across customer-facing products and services.

Working closely with Product Managers, Developers, Solution Architects and business stakeholders, you’ll help shape solutions from discovery through to delivery, ensuring exceptional digital experiences for customers.

About the Role

As a Business Analyst, you’ll work across multiple digital initiatives, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements and translating business needs into clear, actionable outcomes for delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and document business and functional requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discovery sessions.
• Produce process maps, user stories, functional documentation and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with Digital, Product and Technology teams throughout delivery.
• Support solution design, testing, UAT and implementation activities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Contribute across Agile and Waterfall project environments.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Business Analyst with a strong background delivering digital technology projects and the confidence to engage stakeholders across all levels of the business.

You’ll Bring

• Proven Business Analyst experience within IT and Digital environments.
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, process mapping, documentation and testing.
• Experience working across Digital or Product teams delivering customer-facing solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• A proactive, self-directed approach with the ability to manage multiple initiatives.

Highly Regarded

• Experience delivering customer-facing digital platforms or products.
• Exposure to digital payment solutions such as Google Pay, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Zip Pay or similar.
• Experience within the airline, travel or broader customer-centric digital sectors.

What’s on Offer?

• 12-month contract
• $985 per day (inc. super)
• Flexible hybrid/WFH arrangements
• Brisbane-based opportunity
• Work on high-profile digital transformation initiatives with a collaborative, high-performing team
• Long-term program of work across multiple customer-facing digital projects

If you’re passionate about delivering outstanding digital experiences and enjoy working on innovative technology projects, apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

Talent International is currently recruiting for an APS5 Identity Engineer to work for one of our Federal Government clients one of its multiple office locations across NSW. The position is a 12-month contract role with the possibility of extension. The role pays $800 to $850 per day + Super (negotiable based on experience).

7.5 hours per day and 37.5 hours per week

Must hold a NV1 clearance.

About the role

The APS5 Identity Engineer will play an important role within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) function. The position is primarily responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining cloud-based IAM solutions for the organisation’s internal workforce.

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure IAM solutions meet business requirements, security standards, compliance obligations and industry best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain IAM solutions for the internal workforce, focusing on authentication, authorisation and user provisioning/deprovisioning.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective IAM solutions.
• Configure and manage IAM capabilities in line with regulatory standards and security best practices.
• Optimise IAM solutions for scalability, performance and user experience.
• Leverage industry best practices and emerging technologies to improve IAM capabilities.
• Develop and implement automation to streamline IAM processes and administrative tasks.

Essential requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and maintaining IAM solutions.
• Experience with cloud-based IAM platforms such as Okta, Saviynt or Ping Identity.
• Experience with Single Sign-On (SSO), Conditional Access Policies and App Registration.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and independently manage competing priorities.
• Must hold a current NV1 security clearance.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

• Secure, fixed term contract within a Federal Government Body
• Competitive salary and bonus on offer
• Work on a green-field enterprise network build

Our client is currently on the lookout for an experienced Service Delivery Manager with a strong technical networking background to join a growing team delivering critical network services within a highly regulated environment. This role is ideal for someone who has progressed from hands-on network engineering into service delivery and understands both the technical and operational aspects of delivering reliable, high-performing network services.

About the Role
As the Service Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery, performance and continuous improvement of network services. Working closely with technical teams, customers and key stakeholders, you will oversee service performance, manage operational outcomes and help establish best practices within a greenfield environment.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex challenges, building strong relationships and contributing to the delivery of mission-critical infrastructure.

Key Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in a Service Delivery Manager (or similar) role supporting network services.
• Must have several years’ experience as a Network Engineer with a solid understanding of enterprise networking technologies.
• Strong understanding of what excellent service delivery looks like across operational and customer environments.
• Technical understanding of network service performance and how it is measured, including:
  • Network availability and uptime
  • Latency
  • Packet loss
  • Service performance and operational metrics
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with customers, vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working within a regulated industry, such as utilities, defence, federal government, financial services or other critical infrastructure environments.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and business requirements.
• Must be Australian citizen to apply

Benefits:

• Work on one of the most complex greenfield network build programs in Australia
• Competitive package on offer
• Interview and start SAP

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

ServiceNow Test Analyst

Initial 6 Months Contract

Richmond/Parramatta Location

We are seeking a skilled ServiceNow Test Analyst to join our team and contribute to the ongoing success of our Service Standards Program. In this vital role, you will be responsible for planning and executing comprehensive testing of development, configuration, and integration work across our ServiceNow platform. Your efforts will ensure that platform changes are released confidently, defects are identified early, and system performance is maintained at the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans, cases, scripts, and data for functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing across various ServiceNow modules, including HR Service Delivery, IT Service Management, and Customer Service Management.
• Build and maintain automated regression test suites using ServiceNow Automated Test Framework (ATF) where applicable.
• Test integrations between ServiceNow and other enterprise systems, ensuring data accuracy and end-to-end process validation.
• Lead regression testing prior to ServiceNow platform upgrades, identifying potential risks and verifying fixes.
• Validate user roles, access controls, and security settings, including negative testing scenarios.
• Manage the defect lifecycle: logging, triage, prioritization, retesting, and reporting, working closely with development and business teams.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT), including scripting, scheduling, defect management, and obtaining sign-off.
• Contribute to establishing and maintaining testing standards, reusable assets, and quality assurance practices to ensure ongoing test capability.

Key Criteria:

• Proven experience as a Test Analyst within ServiceNow implementations, upgrades, or similar enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Strong skills in test planning, case design, execution, and reporting across various testing types.
• Experience testing system integrations and validating data flows between multiple systems.
• Familiarity with test automation tools, especially ServiceNow ATF or similar.
• Demonstrated defect management expertise and experience working within agile, backlog-driven environments.
• Excellent attention to detail, communication skills, and ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Experience supporting UAT with non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ISTQB or equivalent testing certification.
• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) or similar accreditation.
• Experience with regression testing of platform upgrades.
• Knowledge of access controls and handling sensitive data securely.
• Experience validating reporting outputs and data pipelines.
• Prior experience in government or large, complex organizations.
• Relevant degree or certifications in IT or related fields, or equivalent experience.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume along with a cover letter outlining their relevant experience in Word format only, then click to “APPLY NOW” button below or email to anna.au@talentinternational.com

Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer

Full-Time, Permanent role working in the Defence industry

About the Role

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join a highly skilled Defence engineering team delivering complex technology solutions. In this senior role, you will lead integration, verification and validation activities across sophisticated systems, ensuring solutions are delivered to the highest standards of quality, performance and reliability.

Working within a cooperative, multidisciplinary environment, you’ll play a key role throughout the engineering life-cycle from planning and integration through to testing, analysis and system acceptance.

An NV1 Security Clearance minimum is required to be considered a successful candidate.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead system integration, verification, validation and testing activities across complex projects.

• Develop and execute integration and test strategies, plans, procedures and schedules.

• Design and perform integration, functional, interface and system testing.

• Analyse test results, investigate issues and produce detailed technical reports.

• Identify, document and manage defects through to successful resolution.

• Configure and maintain test environments, hardware and software platforms.

• Troubleshoot complex hardware, software and interface issues.

• Work closely with engineering, project and customer stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

• Participate in technical reviews, project planning and estimation activities.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers within the team.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and testing processes.

About You

You are a senior engineer with extensive experience integrating and testing complex systems. You enjoy solving challenging technical problems, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and mentoring others.

You’ll also bring:

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a related discipline.

• Extensive experience in systems integration, verification, validation and testing.

• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and engineering lifecycles.

• Experience developing test plans, procedures and automated or manual test environments.

• Knowledge of configuration, change and data management practices.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.

• Experience working within complex project or regulated engineering environments.

What’s on Offer

• Work on technically challenging engineering projects.

• Join a collaborative and highly experienced engineering team.

• Opportunities for technical leadership and career progression.

• Ongoing professional development and training.

• Flexible and supportive working environment.

If you’re interested in this position, feel free to call Ella at 0480 804 548 or email at ella.stone@talentinternational.com to chat more!

UAT Program Manager
Sydney
Salary: $160k Package

Looking for an experienced UAT Program Manager with a strong background in Banking or Financial Services. You will lead complex testing programs, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and driving successful business outcomes. We are seeking a highly organised professional to lead User Acceptance Testing across a large-scale enterprise transformation.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile program where you will be responsible for ensuring UAT readiness across multiple workstreams while working closely with business and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead the end to end planning, coordination, and execution of the User Acceptance Testing program.
2. Develop and manage the UAT strategy, schedule, milestones, and overall delivery plan.
3. Coordinate Business, Product, and Technology teams to ensure UAT readiness across all streams.
4. Manage dependencies across test data, environments, and test preparation activities.
5. Ensure UAT activities align with System Integration Testing completion and overall project timelines.
6. Monitor progress against key milestones and proactively manage delivery risks, issues, and blockers.
7. Facilitate governance meetings, provide regular status reporting, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
8. Drive successful completion of UAT, ensuring all required business sign offs are achieved.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

1. 8+ years’ experience in UAT, Test Management, or Program Management.
2. Previous experience delivering UAT programs within Banking, Financial Services, or Capital Markets environments is essential.
3. Proven experience managing large scale, multi stream UAT programs.
4. Strong planning, scheduling, coordination, and execution management skills.
5. Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder groups across business and technology teams.
6. Experience managing dependencies across test environments, test data, and upstream testing activities.
7. Strong problem solving, risk management, and decision-making capabilities.
8. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior business leaders.
9. Experience working within client facing or onsite delivery environments.

Highly Desirable

1. Experience delivering transformation programs within Banking or Financial Services.
2. Strong understanding of the end to end testing lifecycle, including System Integration Testing through to User Acceptance Testing.
3. Experience working in regulated enterprise environments with strong governance requirements.

What’s on Offer

1. Opportunity to lead UAT delivery for a major enterprise transformation within the Banking and Financial Services sector.
2. Work alongside senior business, product, and technology stakeholders.
3. High profile role with significant ownership and influence across multiple project streams.
4. Collaborative and supportive team environment.
5. Competitive remuneration and excellent career development opportunities.

If you have a proven track record of delivering complex UAT programs within Banking or Financial Services and enjoy working in fast paced enterprise environments, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to be considered.

Our client is a large values-focused Federal Government Agency seeking an experienced EL1 Senior Test Lead to lead end-to-end testing across complex digital identity, CRM and integration projects.

This role will suit someone with strong test leadership experience across CIAM / IAM, Salesforce, SSO/MFA, API and integration testing, and complex security/access management environments.

ROLE DETAILS:
Contract: 12 months + 12-month extension option
Working arrangement: Hybrid (2/3 split)
Security: NV1 Security Clearance required
Eligibility: Australian Citizens only
Close: Wednesday 8 July 2026

ABOUT THE ROLE:
You will own end-to-end testing for complex projects, including test planning, estimation, test data setup, stakeholder coordination, defect/risk/dependency management and delivery of high-quality test outcomes. You’ll work across business, technical, security and delivery teams to ensure testing is structured, visible and aligned to project objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead complex end-to-end testing across digital identity, CRM and integration projects.
• Develop test plans, estimates, strategies and test deliverables.
• Manage test data setup and coordination across a complex delivery landscape.
• Lead defect management, risks, dependencies and stakeholder reporting.
• Coordinate vendors, internal teams and business stakeholders to deliver quality outcomes.
• Support testing across CIAM/IAM, Salesforce, SSO, MFA, API and integration environments.
• Provide leadership and direction to testing resources across the project lifecycle.

ABOUT YOU:

• Demonstrated experience testing CIAM solutions, including authentication, authorisation, SSO, MFA, user registration, account recovery and user lifecycle management.
• Hands-on PingOne administration/testing experience, including identity federation, access policies, MFA configuration, RBAC and application integrations.
• Salesforce testing experience, including profiles, permission sets and integration testing.
• API/integration testing experience using Postman and MuleSoft, including REST services, data validation, API security and error handling.
• Understanding of security/access management testing, including RBAC, segregation of duties, privileged access, audit controls and compliance requirements.
• ISTQB certification or equivalent testing qualification and experience leading end-to-end testing for digital identity programs.
• Leadership experience managing testing activities, vendors, stakeholders, defects, risks and dependencies.
• Desirable: government/large enterprise experience, IGA knowledge, Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID or other IAM platforms.

APPLY:
Submit your resume, or for further information please contact
Reece Prideaux – Talent International
reece.prideaux@talentinternational.com

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career