Program Scheduler – Federal Government

Scale by AVEC is looking for an experienced Program Scheduler to support the delivery of a large and complex Federal Government contract.

This is a hands-on scheduling role with responsibility for managing the program schedule end-to-end, providing clear visibility across deliverables, critical path, resources, dependencies and overall schedule performance.

We’re particularly interested in candidates who have worked across defence primes, military suppliers or similarly complex and highly regulated program environments.

Hands-on experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and Open Plan Professional (OPP) is highly desirable.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and manage the end-to-end program schedule for a large Federal Government contract.

• Develop and maintain complex schedules using Open Plan Professional (OPP).

• Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) to track and report program performance.

• Maintain visibility across contractual deliverables, milestones, dependencies and key dates.

• Undertake critical path analysis, identifying schedule slippage and emerging delivery risks.

• Clearly communicate schedule status to stakeholders, including where deliverables are behind plan or impacting the critical path.

• Develop practical mitigation and schedule recovery strategies to keep delivery on track.

• Manage schedule inputs across multiple program teams and stakeholders.

• Undertake resource planning and profiling, identifying capacity requirements and constraints.

• Produce detailed schedule performance, forecasting and progress reporting for Government stakeholders.

• Work closely with Program and Project Managers to provide accurate schedule intelligence and support decision-making.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Program Scheduler / Project Controls professional who is comfortable taking ownership of complex schedules and providing stakeholders with a clear view of program performance.

To be considered, you must have:

• Strong Program Scheduling / Project Controls experience within large, complex programs.

• Proven experience managing a large contract or program schedule end-to-end.

• Hands-on experience using Open Plan Professional (OPP).

• Strong experience with Earned Value Management (EVM).

• Experience developing and maintaining detailed integrated program schedules.

• Strong critical path, schedule variance, dependency and milestone analysis experience.

• Experience with resource planning, forecasting and profiling.

• Demonstrated ability to identify schedule slippage and develop effective mitigation and recovery plans.

• Experience producing schedule and performance reporting for Government stakeholders.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge inputs and clearly communicate schedule status.

• Experience within a defence prime, military supplier or similarly complex program environment will be highly regarded.

Working Arrangement

The role is structured around 16 business days of scheduled work per month, with the remaining business days on call as required.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced scheduler with strong EVM and OPP expertise to take ownership of a significant program schedule and provide the insight and direction required to keep a complex contract on track.

This opportunity is being managed by Scale by AVEC.

Lead Architect

Location: Sydney CBD
Employment Type: Permanent
Sector: Higher Education
Salary: Up to $160,000 plus super

An established Australian higher education organisation is undertaking significant digital transformation and is seeking an experienced Lead Architect to help shape its future technology landscape.

Bridging enterprise and solution architecture, you’ll provide architectural leadership across cloud, applications, integration, data and security while strengthening architecture governance across the organisation.

The Role

You will:

• Define and embed architecture governance, standards, frameworks and patterns.
• Lead solution architecture across major technology initiatives.
• Shape target-state architectures, technology roadmaps and strategic direction.
• Partner with integration leadership to evolve API, messaging and iPaaS architecture.
• Provide architectural direction across Azure, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hybrid environments.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Advise senior stakeholders on technology strategy, investment and solution options.
• Support business cases, tenders, procurement and vendor evaluations.
• Guide external architects, vendors and delivery partners.
• Mentor architecture team members and contribute to the maturity of the architecture practice.

About You

You will ideally bring:

• 10+ years’ technology architecture experience, including 5+ years in senior Solution, Enterprise, Principal or Lead Architecture roles.
• Strong Microsoft Azure and cloud architecture expertise.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or operating architecture governance.
• Strong enterprise integration experience across APIs, messaging, middleware and/or iPaaS.
• Broad architecture exposure across applications, data, security and infrastructure.
• Experience developing target-state architectures, roadmaps and architecture standards.
• Strong vendor, consultancy and senior stakeholder management experience.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentor architects or delivery teams.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or architecture certifications such as TOGAF are highly regarded.

Experience within higher education or another large, complex environment would be advantageous.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to move beyond project-level architecture and influence technology direction across an organisation. You’ll play a key role in shaping architecture governance, Azure/cloud strategy and enterprise integration as part of a major digital transformation.

Product Manager – Banking & Financial Services

Permanent | $100K-$110K Base + Benefits

Sydney NSW – Hybrid

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Product Manager to join an established, member-focused financial services organisation.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Pricing, you will play a key role in the development, enhancement and ongoing management of banking products and pricing initiatives. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys combining commercial thinking, analysis, stakeholder management and project delivery to improve products and customer outcomes.

The Role

You will support the end-to-end product life-cycle while working closely with stakeholders across the organisation to deliver product, pricing and customer experience improvements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the end-to-end management of banking products, from design and implementation through to optimisation and ongoing maintenance.
• Project manage product, fee and pricing change initiatives.
• Work closely with Operations, Distribution, Marketing, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Technology teams to deliver product improvements.
• Conduct product testing and support the successful implementation of system and product changes.
• Analyse customer insights, competitor activity and industry trends to identify opportunities and recommend improvements.
• Provide product expertise and support across key strategic and business projects.
• Manage internal product enquiries and support key external partnerships.

About You

We are looking for someone with a strong combination of product, commercial and analytical capability who is comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and priorities.

You will ideally bring:

• Experience in product management, product development, pricing, lending or a related financial services discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate insights into practical recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience within banking, lending or financial services will be highly regarded.
• A degree in Business, Marketing, Strategy or a related discipline is desirable.

Why Apply?

This is a great opportunity to gain exposure to strategic product and pricing initiatives while working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across a financial services organisation.

You’ll have the opportunity to further develop your commercial, analytical, product and project management capabilities, while contributing to products that deliver meaningful customer outcomes.

A competitive salary of $100K-$110K base is on offer, along with a range of employee benefits and leave initiatives.

Interested? Apply now for a confidential discussion.

Senior Project Manager – Digital Delivery
Optimizely Digital Experience Platform

Scale Talent is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the implementation of an enterprise Digital Experience Platform.

This role will coordinate the delivery of Optimizely CMS, CMP, DAM and Opal AI capabilities, working closely with the systems integration partner and stakeholders across Technology, Digital, Marketing, Brand, Data, Cyber Security and the broader business.

You will oversee delivery from platform establishment through content migration, adoption, operational readiness, go-live and transition to business-as-usual.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of the Optimizely Digital Experience Platform.

• Coordinate the systems integration partner, Optimizely, agencies and internal delivery teams.

• Establish clear roadmaps, releases, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate Optimizely CMS delivery, including website experiences, content capability and migration.

• Oversee Optimizely CMP implementation, including content planning, collaboration, workflows and marketing operations.

• Coordinate Optimizely DAM delivery, including metadata, permissions, governance, workflows and asset migration.

• Lead the controlled implementation and adoption of Optimizely Opal AI capabilities.

• Ensure responsible AI, security, privacy and data-governance requirements are addressed.

• Oversee environments, configuration, access, identity, APIs, integrations, monitoring and deployment.

• Align the solution with enterprise architecture, technology and cyber-security standards.

• Maintain clear requirements, traceability and acceptance criteria.

• Lead integrated test planning, execution, defect management and reporting.

• Manage RAID, dependency, decision, action, change and deliverables registers.

• Manage budgets, forecasts, vendor expenditure and commercial commitments.

• Facilitate governance forums and provide executives with clear status, options and recommendations.

• Define go-live, cutover and operational-readiness criteria.

• Ensure support models, monitoring, runbooks, ownership, training and documentation are ready before launch.

• Coordinate deployment, communications, hypercare and transition to business-as-usual.

About you

You will bring:

• Extensive experience delivering complex digital, technology or customer-platform initiatives.

• Demonstrated success managing enterprise CMS, digital experience or marketing-technology implementations.

• Strong systems integration and vendor-management capability.

• Experience coordinating multiple business and technical workstreams.

• Strong understanding of platform environments, integrations, identity, data and release management.

• Experience managing content and digital-asset migration.

• Practical knowledge of cyber security, privacy, accessibility and data governance.

• Strong project governance, financial management and executive-reporting skills.

• Experience leading integrated testing, cutover, operational readiness and hypercare.

• Excellent stakeholder-management, facilitation and communication skills.

• The ability to bring structure, transparency and accountability to complex delivery environments.

Highly regarded

• Direct experience implementing Optimizely CMS, CMP, DAM or Opal AI.

• Experience delivering enterprise Digital Experience Platforms.

• Exposure to responsible AI governance and AI-enabled content capabilities.

• Experience working across Digital, Marketing, Brand, Data and Technology functions.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards and customer-centred digital delivery.

What success looks like

You will establish clear accountability across all delivery partners and workstreams, maintain alignment between scope, schedule, budget and quality, and ensure the platform is secure, supportable and ready for operational use.

This role will suit a pragmatic and commercially capable Senior Project Manager who can confidently lead a complex digital-platform implementation from mobilisation through to go-live.

We are seeking a commercially minded Pricing Analyst to support pricing, cost modelling and bid activities across complex projects and service contracts for one of our Defence Client based in Adelaide.

You will work closely with Commercial, Finance, Business Development, Program Management, Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop accurate, competitive and compliant pricing solutions.

Security Requirements

Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance are required. Candidates holding Baseline or NV1 clearance are encouraged to apply.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your pricing and commercial career while supporting complex, high-value projects within a collaborative team environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop pricing models and cost estimates for tenders, proposals and contract variations.
• Build cost models covering labour, materials, subcontractors, overheads, escalation, risk and margin.
• Conduct financial modelling, cost analysis, sensitivity analysis and scenario modelling.
• Review actual costs and forecasts to improve pricing accuracy.
• Support bid submissions, pricing reviews, negotiations and commercial decision-making.
• Maintain pricing assumptions, supporting documentation and audit trails.
• Work with stakeholders to gather and validate pricing inputs.

About You

You will ideally have:

• Experience in pricing, estimating, commercial analysis, finance, contracts or bid support.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability.
• Strong attention to detail and commercial awareness.
• Ability to interpret financial, contractual and technical information.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Experience within defence, government, engineering, construction, infrastructure, manufacturing or professional services will be highly regarded.

Knowledge of government contracting, defence pricing, ASDEFCON, ERP systems or program financial controls is desirable.

If interested APPLY NOW or call Aparna Malik at 08 8228 1560 for a quick chat.

• Initial 12 month contract with the view to extend
• Conveniently located in Melbourne CBD with WFH arrangement (3 days’ in the office)
• Work on cutting edge, real time big data analytics projcets

This is a unique opportunity to lead the ongoing evolution of a mature analytics platform that combines real time data, geospatial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud-based software engineering. You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving software engineering excellence while mentoring team members and helping shape the future direction of advanced analytics capabilities across the organisation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience using Python
• Experience building and deploying production systems on AWS.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working with machine learning, AI, analytics, or data-intensive platforms.
• Knowledge of imagery, spatial modelling, and selective LiDAR use cases
• Any knowledge of imagery or spatial modelling would be highly regarded.
• Understanding of hardware-software integration workflows for sensor platforms.

Benefits:

• 12-month ongoing contract to start ASAP
• Top of the market contracting rate
• Work on an industry leading big data / ML program

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

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to support several large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. This is a 12-month fixed term contract with possibility of extension.

You will support major programs across HCM, procurement and contract management transformation, including new enterprise platform implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide coordination support to Program Directors, Project Managers and project teams
• Support monthly project financial cycles, including invoices, purchase orders, reconciliations and variance reporting
• Coordinate governance reporting and prepare Steering Committee packs
• Maintain project schedules, RAID logs, action registers and reporting
• Coordinate meetings, workshops and stakeholder forums, including minutes and follow-up actions
• Manage project documentation and reporting requirements
• Support process improvements across project delivery activities

Key Requirements

• 3-5+ years’ experience in project or program coordination
• Strong project financial administration, reporting and reconciliation experience
• Experience preparing governance and Steering Committee reporting
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Confident stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced project environment

If you would like to know more, please contact Milly Kerei-Keepa at milly.kerei-keepa@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now

L3 Network Engineer – Unified Communications Experience
Adelaide, SA | Permanent Full Time

Please note: Applicants must have full Australian working rights. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

We’re partnering with an established organisation to find an experienced L3 Network Engineer with strong networking fundamentals and exposure to Voice / Unified Communications (UC) environments.

This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who enjoys troubleshooting complex network issues while also working across modern voice and collaboration technologies.

What you’ll be doing:

• Configure, support and troubleshoot enterprise network and voice environments
• Deploy and configure Unified Communications and cloud-based voice solutions
• Troubleshoot VoIP, connectivity and network performance issues at an L3 level
• Configure networking to support voice services, including routing, switching, VLANs and QoS
• Support customer implementations, upgrades and technical issues
• Work predominantly from an Adelaide-based office, with occasional customer site visits as required

What we’re looking for:

• Strong experience as a Network Engineer, ideally at L3 level
• Solid routing, switching and network troubleshooting skills
• Experience supporting VoIP, IP Telephony or Unified Communications
• Understanding of SIP, QoS, VLANs and voice networking
• Exposure to platforms such as RingCentral or similar cloud telephony/UC solutions
• Microsoft Teams / Teams Calling and Webex experience would be highly regarded
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Confident communication skills and the ability to work with customers and technical teams

Experience within an MSP, telecommunications, systems integrator or managed services environment would be particularly valuable.

Why consider this opportunity?

You’ll join a technically focused environment where you can work across both networking and Unified Communications, with exposure to enterprise customers and modern cloud-based voice technologies.

Interested? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion. You can reach out to Shilpa Sharma at 08 8228 1501

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Finance Manager to join a well-established organisation and play a key role in driving financial sustainability, compliance, and operational excellence. It is a permanent opportunity, based at Emerald.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee all financial accounting activities, including month-end and year-end processes
• Manage Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Financial Accounting functions
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities
• Prepare financial reports for Executive Leadership, Board and Committee meetings
• Coordinate annual audits and ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
• Develop and enhance financial policies, procedures and internal controls

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• CPA, CA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Degree qualification in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline
• Demonstrated experience in a senior finance leadership position
• Strong knowledge of financial management, reporting, budgeting and compliance requirements
• Experience managing audits and preparing statutory financial statements
• Experience within government, not-for-profit or community-focused organisations – must have

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Anita Fonseka at anita.fonseka@talentinternational.com

Transition / Projects Engineering Manager

Confidential Defence Opportunity

Our client is seeking an experienced Transition / Projects Engineering Manager (PEM) to support capability acquisition, transition and Introduction Into Service (IIS) activities within a complex Defence environment.

This is a senior engineering role requiring someone who can bridge the gap between acquisition and sustainment, ensuring new and modified capabilities are transitioned into service with the appropriate engineering assurance, safety, certification, supportability and governance arrangements in place.

Security Clearance

A current NV1 security clearance is mandatory for this position. Candidates who do not currently hold the required clearance will not be considered.

The Role

This is not a traditional project engineering or technical design position. The successful candidate will operate as a trusted senior engineering representative, working across project delivery, engineering, logistics, sustainment and stakeholder communities.

You will be responsible for identifying and managing technical risks, influencing project outcomes and supporting informed capability decisions throughout acquisition, transition and sustainment.

The role requires someone who can confidently engage with Defence stakeholders, interpret engineering and sustainment impacts, develop transition and assurance documentation, and support the safe and effective introduction of capabilities into service.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Defence capability acquisition, transition and Introduction Into Service activities
• Provide engineering management, governance and technical assurance across capability delivery
• Prepare and review engineering and project artefacts, including Engineering Management Plans, Risk Assessments, Safety Case Reports, Technical Certification Plans and Transition Plans
• Support engineering change management, certification and acceptance activities
• Conduct technical investigations, analyse outcomes and provide recommendations to Defence stakeholders
• Support engineering inspections, testing, evaluation and acceptance activities
• Manage technical risks and ensure appropriate engineering assurance throughout capability delivery
• Assess sustainment requirements and in-service support impacts associated with capability transition
• Engage with Defence representatives, project teams, military units, industry partners and engineering stakeholders
• Support capability decision making from acquisition through transition and into sustainment

About You

You will be a senior engineering professional with demonstrated Defence experience, ideally across capability acquisition, transition, sustainment or Introduction Into Service.

You will bring:

• Strong Defence engineering management and leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience with engineering governance and technical assurance within a Defence environment
• Experience supporting capability acquisition, transition and/or Introduction Into Service
• Strong understanding of engineering change, certification, acceptance and technical risk management
• Experience developing and reviewing engineering governance, assurance and transition documentation
• An understanding of sustainment and in-service support requirements
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across Defence, military, engineering and industry environments
• The ability to operate autonomously as a senior engineering representative and trusted adviser

Highly Desirable

• Maritime systems experience
• Degree qualification in Engineering
• CPEng and/or RPEQ accreditation
• Previous experience within a Systems Program Office, CASG or similar Defence capability environment
• Experience operating within Defence engineering governance and technical authority frameworks

Important

Our client is specifically seeking candidates with established Defence engineering experience, particularly across engineering leadership, governance, capability transition and stakeholder engagement.

Candidates whose backgrounds are primarily focused on technical design, PMO support or project coordination without the required Defence engineering experience are unlikely to be suitable.

A current NV1 security clearance is a mandatory requirement. Candidates without this clearance will not be considered.

Senior Business Analyst – Federal Government

Talent is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a major technology initiative within a Federal Government agency.

This role will suit a confident and self-sufficient Business Analyst who can work across business and technology teams, bring clarity to complex requirements and support delivery from discovery through to implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder discussions to identify business needs, requirements and intended outcomes.
• Elicit, analyse and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop business requirements documents, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Produce current-state and future-state process maps using BPMN.
• Work collaboratively with business SMEs, executives, designers, developers and testers.
• Apply user-centred design principles and Australian Government accessibility and usability standards.
• Support testing, requirements traceability and defect clarification.
• Assist with UAT preparation, system implementation and the creation of user guidance and training materials.
• Manage competing priorities and work independently with limited supervision.
• Guide and support junior Business Analysts when required.
• Contribute positively to a professional, accountable and collaborative team culture.

About you

You will bring:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in information technology or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of systems development lifecycles and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, documenting and managing complex requirements.
• Strong process-modelling, data-analysis and data-modelling capability.
• Practical experience with BPMN and requirements-management tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience applying user-centred design practices to improve services and user experiences.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and delivery skills.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to communicate effectively with technical, business and executive stakeholders.
• Previous experience within Federal Government or a similarly complex and regulated environment will be highly regarded.

Application requirement

Candidates must submit a one-page pitch of no more than 5,000 characters addressing all essential criteria. The pitch should provide clear examples demonstrating relevant experience, responsibilities and outcomes.

Applicants must also meet citizenship, security-clearance and suitability requirements associated with the engagement.