Our client is a global software organisation with an office in Melbourne. Due to a busy period on an exciting project, they are seeking a Senior Java Developer to join the team.

• Initial contract to end of Feb starting ASAP – start before Xmas
• Rates fully negotiable depending on experience
• South Melbourne location plus hybrid work-from-home

Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness
• Collaborate with the team to define solutions to requirements.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Assist with testing to meet committed project deliverables.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Prerequisite Requirements:

• 4 -6 years of enterprise software design skills in Java
• Experience with Springboot
• Tertiary Degree in Computer Science, Software Development/Engineering, or equivalent.
• Solid experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Skills with Source Management (Git, TFS, etc), build scripting (Gradle, Maven, Make), and build servers Bamboo/Jenkins.
• Hands on experience with databases – Oracle (including PL/SQL), Postgres, MS SQL Server, (NoSQL like Mongo a bonus)
• Used source control management systems and continuous integration (CI)/deployment environments (CD)
• Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes a plus
• Worked with *nix based operating systems
• Exposure to JIRA or similar issue tracker
• Knowledge of web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS, React).
• Exposure to case management, workflow and BPM would be highly regarded (specifically Pega Systems). (not required but useful)
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Practiced Agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum

For more information, please contact jarrodd.edwards@talentinternational.com. The successful candidate will need to pass a national police and employment check.

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• Permanent Opportunity
• Canberra location only
• NV1 or higher (mandatory)
• Key Experience: Pre-sales engineering within enterprise software, data protection, cyber resilience, and public sector environments

This role plays a critical part in supporting federal customers by bridging complex business challenges with robust, secure, and scalable technical solutions. As a senior technical advisor within a federal sales environment, you will work closely with sales, partners, and customers to shape solutions that drive resilience, protect critical data, and enable confident decision-making at the highest levels of government.

Your duties will include:

• Partnering with sales teams to develop territory plans and account strategies
• Leading technical discovery, solution design, and pre-sales engagements
• Delivering compelling product demonstrations, whiteboarding sessions, and executive presentations
• Supporting proof-of-value activities and cloud architecture discussions
• Building trusted relationships with technical and executive stakeholders
• Providing enablement and technical guidance to partners and internal teams

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Extensive experience in pre-sales or sales engineering within software or storage environments
• Strong background in data management, backup and recovery, security, and cyber resilience solutions
• Experience working with Australian Public Sector or Federal Government clients
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern infrastructure technologies
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Application Process

If you would like to apply, please contact Sanat on 0400 016 163 or email sanat.anmadwar@talentinternational.com

Our client is a leader within the compliance/ risk management software space currently seeking a Software Engineer to deliver across a range of projects.

Your new role will see you working as part of the Engineering Team to design, develop and deliver on the businesses SaaS platform. You will build high-quality, secure and scalable software solutions using the MEAN stack. This role will see you supporting the end to end software development lifecycle and ensure development is inline with industry best practice.

Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience with the MERN stack, including MongoDB, Node.js, React.js, and Jest for unit testing
• Skilled in building responsive, user-friendly interfaces with React, grounded in UX/CX principles to deliver intuitive and customer-centric designs
• Deep proficiency in MongoDB and NoSQL databases, with a strong focus on performance tuning, indexing strategies, and efficient data modelling
• Experience in architecting and developing RESTful APIs
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development workflows, automate and innovate

Our client is offering a full time permanent position and a fully remote work environment. With offices based in Sydney you may be required to travel on occasion.

For more information feel free to reach out to Rade Manojlovic at rade.manojlovic@talentinternational.com

Our client is a growing IT service provider currently seeking an Account Director to drive sales growth across the ANZ region for their Security Managed Services.

Your new role will see you playing a key role in refining and implementing a sales strategy to grow the sales of the businesses Managed Security Services. With a strong background in driving security sales you will leverage your networks to help bring in new business. You will support the sales cycle from end to end working closely with the internal technical teams ensuring solutions are fit for purpose. As a senior leader you will independently execute consultative selling, bid and negotiate sales.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong sales experience in Security Services, preferably with Managed Security Services and/or Professional Security Services
• A broad understanding of enterprise cyber security tools, standards and policies
• The ability to establish a sales portfolio plan and execute on strategy
• A strong existing network of contacts within the Cyber Security market
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to influence key decision makers

Our client is offering a full time permanent position with a base salary plus commission. Offices are based in the Melbourne CBD with a requirement to be onsite 3 day per week.

For more information feel free to contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com

• Permanent Position – Australian Diversified Financial Services Company
• CBD Location – Hybrid Working Arrangement
• Manual Testing of Legacy System

The role:
We are seeking a Manual Test Analyst to play a pivotal role in strengthening and driving test strategies, capabilities and best practice across multiple projects. This manual tester will perform manual testing activities on our legacy system, and any upcoming initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Define and drive QA strategy, standards, and best practices across multiple projects
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level testers to build team capability
• Lead planning and execution of testing activities for major releases and initiatives
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and product teams to ensure test coverage across functional and non-functional requirements
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function.

You will have:

• Proven experience as a Manual Tester across complex enterprise environments
• Demonstrated ability to uplift testing capability, frameworks and practice maturity
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience translating business needs into clear, actionable artefacts
• Mobile and cross-browser automation testing experience
• Exposure to salary packaging, novated leasing or financial services (nice to have)

What’s in it for you:

• Focus on work-life balance & wellbeing
• Career growth and learning
• Strong workplace culture

For more information please contact on sarah.jordan@talentinternational.com

Job Title

Telco Transformation Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Overview

A leading global consultancy is in discussions with a major telecommunications client regarding several potential transformation roles expected to commence in January.

These roles will focus on driving measurable operational and customer outcomes across core telco domains. Candidates must bring deep telecommunications experience and proven Lean Six Sigma Black Belt capability, as these are mandatory for consideration.

Key Responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for,

• leading end to end process improvement and transformation initiatives within telco environments

• applying Lean Six Sigma Black Belt methodology to diagnose complex problems and deliver sustainable solutions

• conducting root cause analysis, process mapping, value stream analysis, and benefits quantification

• partnering with senior stakeholders to shape scope, define requirements, and build delivery roadmaps

• facilitating workshops and working sessions to drive alignment and momentum

• producing clear insights, recommendations, and implementation plans

• supporting change adoption across operational and enterprise customer-facing functions

• ensuring delivery aligns to strategic objectives and improves performance, cost, or customer experience

Essential Requirements

Applications will only be considered if you meet both of the following,

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, with demonstrated experience leading real world improvement programs

• telecommunications industry experience, ideally within one or both of these domains,

  • network operations

  • B2B Enterprise and Business customer facing business units

Without both Black Belt certification and telco experience, candidates will not progress.

Additional Experience and Skills

• strong problem solving capability, comfortable working through ambiguity and complexity

• proven consulting skillset, including structured thinking, stakeholder management, and executive level communication

• track record delivering measurable outcomes in operational excellence, transformation, or continuous improvement

• ability to influence across technical and non technical teams

• excellent documentation skills, including ability to create crisp, decision ready outputs

Desirable

• experience in large scale telco transformation programs

• exposure to service assurance, network delivery, enterprise customer lifecycle, or managed services

• background working in consulting or professional services environments

Our client is a leading national retailer currently seeking a Senior SRE Platform Manager to manage, maintain and improve their Data and AI platforms.

Your new role will see you managing the Ops Engineers and vendor resources responsible for maintaining the health and performance of the Data and AI platforms. This role will have you overseeing the planning, implementation and improvement of monitoring, alerting and DR processes. You will also lead and manage the Ops Manager and the SRE Manager to deliver scalable operations support across the platform. Join during a period of growth in the team you will also bring new ideas to the business to deliver automation, scalability and security. This role will require you to bring a wealth of leadership experience to help coach and develop DevOps Engineers and build an innovative culture.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven years of experience in IT operations, platform support, or DevOps engineering roles
• Experience managing technical operations teams supporting Data, AI, or ML platforms
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure, Snowflake, Databricks), DevOps tooling, and monitoring systems
• Strong background in vendor management, including coordinating third-party service delivery and contract oversight
• Leadership and team management capabilities, with a focus on operational excellence

Our client is offering a full time permanent position with an opportunity to deliver significant change across the Data and AI platforms. Offices are based in Melbourne’s inner suburbs with a requirement to be onsite 3 days per week.

For more information feel free to contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com

Join one of Australia’s leading national retailers as an AI/ML Platform Engineering Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling the organisation’s next-generation machine learning capabilities. This is a permanent leadership opportunity overseeing a high-performing team of six engineers and driving end-to-end ownership of the AI/ML platform.

About the Role

In this role, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of critical AI/ML platform components supporting enterprise-wide machine learning initiatives. You will partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, software developers, and platform teams to translate business needs into scalable and secure platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of AI/ML platform components including model training environments, feature stores, model registries, deployment pipelines, and monitoring frameworks.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of platform enhancements, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance across all ML workloads.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and enable seamless delivery of AI/ML solutions.
• Implement and champion best practices in MLOps, including model versioning, lifecycle management, CI/CD, observability, and platform security.
• Drive continuous improvement by integrating new tools, frameworks, and automation to streamline and accelerate ML workflows.
• Oversee platform reliability, incident response, operational support, and capacity planning to maintain enterprise-grade availability.
• Ensure all platform capabilities adhere to organisational data governance, security standards, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Provide regular reporting, insights, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership on platform performance, risks, and future opportunities.

About You

You are a technical leader with a passion for building robust, scalable AI/ML platforms and empowering teams to deliver impactful machine learning outcomes. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and bring deep experience in MLOps, automation, and cloud-native engineering.

What’s on Offer

• Permanent leadership role in a high-growth AI/ML environment
• Opportunity to shape a major retailer’s enterprise ML ecosystem
• Lead and develop a team of six talented engineers
• Competitive salary, benefits, and long-term career pathways

For more information contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com

Product Owner, Workforce, Baseline cleared, Australian Citizen, 12 month contract

A global consulting client of ours is partnering with a government end client on a major digital and workforce transformation program. They’re looking for an experienced Product Owner to lead delivery of policy driven digital solutions, ensuring legislative priorities are translated into high quality product outcomes.

This is a minimum 12 month contract with strong extension potential. You must be an Australian Citizen and hold (or be eligible to obtain) Baseline Security Clearance.

Key responsibilities

• represent business interests in the development of digital solutions, acting as the voice of the user and policy intent

• translate complex policy and legislative changes into clear requirements, actionable user stories, and measurable acceptance criteria for both policy and digital delivery

• support delivery teams to sequence and refine work, ensuring requirements are delivered in line with legislative priorities and program timeframes

• collaborate with stakeholders across policy, legal, operations and ICT to gather input, surface risks, and validate requirements early and often

• provide business leadership and direction to ICT delivery partners through the solution design and build lifecycle

• ensure solution quality is maintained during delivery by monitoring product performance, including benefits realisation and usability outcomes

• participate actively in planning events, prioritisation sessions, showcases, reviews, and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement

Required experience and skills

• proven experience as a Product Owner or Senior Business Analyst in agile delivery environments

• strong capability in translating policy, legislation, or regulatory change into digital product requirements

• demonstrated experience working across multidisciplinary teams, including policy, legal, operations, and technology

• excellent stakeholder management skills, able to negotiate priorities and align diverse groups toward a shared outcome

• confident leading backlog management, user story development, and acceptance criteria definition

• experience monitoring product performance post release and driving iterative improvement

• strong communication skills

Security and citizenship requirements

• Australian Citizenship is essential

• Baseline Security Clearance is essential, or you must be eligible and willing to obtain it immediately

Nice to have

• prior experience delivering solutions within Australian Government environments

• exposure to workforce, HR, or capability related programs of work

• familiarity with scaled agile delivery models across multi vendor environments

Contract details

• contract length: minimum 12 months, likely extension

• engagement: via a global consultancy working to a government end client

• Process Improvement Consultant – Technology – 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
• $280,000 Package (Incl. Super) + annual bonus
• Sydney CBD location with WFH Flexibility

A leading entertainment brand is seeking an experienced Process Improvement Consultant to join their Group Technology & Innovation division on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Reporting directly to the Group CIO, this high-impact role will drive end-to-end process improvement initiatives that uplift operational effectiveness across people, processes, technology and products.

If you thrive on transforming complex environments, partnering with senior leaders, and delivering measurable business outcomes, this is an exceptional opportunity.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead, plan and deliver enterprise-wide process improvement and re-engineering initiatives
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand priorities, validate requirements, and influence business adoption
• Review and analyse existing processes to identify opportunities for optimisation, reduced cost and improved efficiency
• Manage change activities including documentation, training, communication, and stakeholder engagement
• Drive continuous improvement culture across business units and technology teams
• Prepare progress reports, insights and presentations for leadership forums
• Provide technical and analytical support to initiatives and ensure alignment to strategic IT objectives
• Ensure compliance, risk awareness, cyber standards, and process governance are embedded in all activities
• Mentor and guide team members (future potential direct reports)

About you:

You’ll bring a strategic, analytical and solutions-focused mindset, with proven experience delivering process improvement initiatives within large, complex environments, along with:

• Strong background in IT process improvement, operational excellence or continuous improvement
• Experience leading process improvement projects with tangible outcomes
• Exceptional stakeholder management capability with the ability to challenge, influence and drive adoption
• Advanced analytical skills and ability to interpret complex problems
• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple deadlines and operate autonomously
• Experience with mission-critical or real-time systems
• Knowledge of network processes, process mapping, business KPIs
• Degree in IT, Business or related discipline preferred
• Strong understanding of technology trends and enterprise IT environments

What’s on Offer:

• $280,000 package (incl super)
• 12-month fixed term contract
• WFH flexibility
• Daily parking for $12 per day

✔ Work with an experienced CIO and senior leadership team
✔ Opportunity to lead impactful, enterprise-level process improvement initiatives
✔ Join a forward-thinking, transformation-focused technology function within a leading entertainment brand

If you’re a seasoned Continuous Improvement or Process Improvement professional who enjoys driving meaningful, organisation-wide change, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out for a confidential chat.

Business Analyst – Secure Network Solutions
Location: Sydney CBD (5 days onsite)
Security Clearance: NV1 (Australian citizens only)

About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst to join our team designing and implementing secure firewall, cross-domain guard, and Federated Mission Networking (FMN) solutions. You will work closely with the Solution Architect and stakeholders to define, analyse, and document requirements for secure data exchange solutions across multi-domain environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyse, and validate functional and non-functional requirements for secure network solutions.

• Manage Agile backlog, create user stories, and facilitate sprints, workshops, and UAT.

• Align solutions with architecture, security technologies, and compliance standards.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in complex IT environments, preferably Defence or Government.

• Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and proficiency with tools such as Jira or Confluence.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.

• Knowledge of secure networking, data-centric security, and interoperability standards desirable.

Other Requirements:

• Australian citizens only.

• Current NV1 clearance or ability to obtain.

• Mandatory 5 days onsite in Sydney CBD.

If this sounds like you, please APPLY now. Please note, if you are not an Australian citizen, with active Baseline or NV1 security clearance, you WILL NOT be considered for this position.

• 4 days in office, 1 day WFH(Macquarie Park)
• ASAP start – short-term temp roles over Christmas
• $45-55 + super per hour (depending on experience)
• Use your Micropay & NZ payroll expertise to make an immediate impact

We’re partnering with a leading organisation in the health and community sector who are seeking an experienced Payroll Officer to join their supportive team in Macquarie Park.

They’re looking for strong payroll professionals who can hit the ground running – particularly those with hands-on Micropay and New Zealand payroll experience.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a close-knit payroll team of nine, working closely with the team to ensure seamless payroll delivery across multiple entities.

The focus will be on maintaining accurate and compliant payroll operations over the holiday period, with the potential for the right person to move into a permanent position in 2025.

What You’ll Be Doing

• End-to-end payroll processing using Micropay (essential).
• Manage both Australian and New Zealand payrolls, ensuring compliance with the NZ Holidays Act and IRD requirements.
• Support time and attendance data via Humanforce (training provided).
• Assist with payroll queries, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Ensure accuracy across multiple payroll cycles and entities.

About You

• 2+ years’ experience in payroll, with a strong understanding of end-to-end processes.
• Micropay experience is essential.
• NZ payroll experience required (knowledge of Holidays Act & IRD preferred).
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, multi-entity environments.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
• Available to start immediately (cannot consider notice periods for temp roles).

The Details

• Location: Macquarie Park (hybrid: 4 days office, 1 day WFH)
• Duration:
• Contract through to January 2026
• Hours: 4 days per week
• Rate: $45-55 + super (depending on experience)
• Systems: Micropay (essential), Humanforce & HR3 (training provided)

Why You’ll Love It

• Join a friendly, down-to-earth payroll team with a great culture.
• Make an immediate impact and help keep payroll running smoothly over the Christmas period.
• Opportunity to be considered for permanent roles in 2026
• Flexible hours outside of pay run weeks.

Please APPLY NOW!