• Permanent Role

• Location: Sydney 

• 3 days WFO, 2 days WFH

• Salary: $160,000 - $170,000 + super + share options. 

We’re looking for a technically sharp and business-savvy Data & BI Technical Lead to help shape and scale the data strategy of a high-growth, VC backed Tech company reshaping the insurance experience. 

You’ll be joining a data-led team already delivering big things and now they’re building on that momentum.

You'll be the right-hand person to the GM of Data, taking ownership of technical decisions, strategy, and delivery across BI and platform architecture. It’s a hands-on leadership role with a chance to flex your already impressive skills in AWS, Snowflake, dbt, and Python—while leading a team of experienced data engineers through big transformations.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading a team of 3 senior data engineers, providing technical coaching, 1:1s, and day-to-day support.
  
  

• Taking ownership of technical decisions across their BI environment—data pipelines, transformation logic, and feature development.
  
  

• Designing and scaling their AWS-hosted data platform, including Snowflake fundamentals like Snowpipes, Stages, and Integration.
  
  

• Leading data governance conversations and designing access strategies that match our modern, self-serve environment.
  
  

• Championing SQL, Python and modern ELT practices (dbt) while continuously improving the platform and feature set.
  
  

• Playing a pivotal role in data strategy including approvals, proposals, and strategic planning.
  
  

• Driving the implementation of new AI initiatives and integrating them into business workflows (think: SQL-generation, testing, validation, dbt/Snowflake pipelines).
  
  

• Supporting cross-functional squads (FE, BE, DE, PMs) across 4 product streams, helping align data capabilities with business needs.
  
  

What You Bring:

• Strong hands-on experience in cloud data platforms—especially AWS and Snowflake.
  
  

• Deep knowledge of modern ELT tools—particularly dbt and Python-built pipelines.
  
  

• SQL master—you can write and debug complex queries in your sleep.
  
  

• Strategic thinker with experience designing and scaling cloud-based data environments.
  
  

• Confident decision-maker who can challenge ideas, make the call, and rally a team.
  
  

• Team leadership experience (small teams, up to 5 people) with a focus on coaching and mentoring senior engineers.
  
  

• Comfortable in business conversations—able to speak the language of product teams, software development teams and translate ideas into roadmaps.

• Bonus points if you’ve dabbled in AI/ML, especially tools that enable self-serve data capabilities.

Contract QA Automation Engineer Opportunity – Join a Leading Enterprise!

Location: Sydney
Duration: 12 months with possibility of extension

We are looking for a Contract QA Automation Engineer to join a leading enterprise business and take ownership of key automation testing initiatives. This role focuses on both API & UI automation, with responsibilities spanning across test strategy development, framework migration, and more.

Key Objectives:

• API Automation: Migrate tests, review and automate endpoints, enable framework for pen-test proxy, and create mock environments.
• UI Automation: Enhance user journeys using Playwright, Applitools visual testing, and create tests for various payment types and account actions.
• Overall Strategy: Improve regression test coverage, define testing guidelines, investigate flaky tests, and decommission legacy testing services.

Skills Needed:

• Expertise in API automation (Karate, Postman, etc.)
• UI automation experience with Playwright and Applitools
• Strong knowledge of test strategies and framework development
• Experience working in enterprise-level environments

If you're ready to make an impact with cutting-edge testing and automation, apply now or contact Reema Thomas - reema@theonset.com.au

• Delivery Manager
  • End-to-end delivery of platform implementations (both hands-on delivery management and delegation to delivery team members) and
  • Contributing to the practices used in all deliveries
• Client Facing Software Vendor, Consulting or System Integrator
  • Accountability for delivery success and ownership of the customer and ownership (commercial and otherwise) of the financial and non-financial outcomes of projects and BAU implemented
• Leadership 
  • Manage project team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
  • Management also includes the wellbeing, mentoring and performance monitoring of project team members.

Content Writer - Financial Services, 6 month FTC with view to go perm

• Develop high quality content for web and mobile apps
• Leverage data and insights to inform content development and optimisation
• Work closely with a cross functional squad and diverse stakeholders to deliver outcomes

Are you looking for to join a business going through significant growth?  Do you love working in an Agile framework delivering standout content across web and mobile?  Do you have a passion for leveraging content to create meaningful impact?  Do you have a knack for communicating complex financial services products in a compelling yet simple way to customers?  Are you able to showcase a strong portfolio of written work that reflects the different tones and styles you've used to connect with your audiences?

The Opportunity

• Develop high quality content for web and mobile apps.
• Get curious about insights and data from user testing and research to inform content development.
• Ensure content is written with SEO and UI best practice in mind.
• Work cross functionally in a squad of UX designers, engineers, testers and BAs, marketers and product squads.

Does This Sound Like you?

• Experienced writing copy for web and mobile, preferrably in financial services or SAAS led organisations.
• Experienced working in an Agile framework, meeting spring goals and deliverables.
• Familiar with Figma and/or Sketch, writing copy to meet UX and design requirements.
• Strong eye for detail and UX/UI design.
• Experienced working with diverse stakeholder groups.

To find out more, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

• 6-month FTC contract with strong potential to go perm
• High growth financial services that has adopted agile ways of working
• $120k including super

As this business embarks on significant growth and transformation, with a strong focus on driving connectivity with its customers through compelling content across multiple channels including web and mobile, they are scaling their teams to bring in specialist resources. to this end, you'll play a lead role in bringing customer-facing websites to life through engaging, high-performing content that informs, converts, and delivers great user experiences.

 Picture yourself as the Digital Producer across multiple digital platforms, working closely the squads to build pages for web and mobile applications, playing a key role in optimising the digital customer journey and supporting lead generation through content and UX/UI excellence.

 What You’ll Do

• Create content pages for web and mobile apps.
• Leverage available components within the CMS platforms to build and deploy pages.
• Create content aligned with brand guildelines while creating remarkable UX and delivering best practice SEO.
• Create digital content that supports search engine ranking.
• Collaborate within a cross functional squad of UX designers, testers, engineers and BAs.
• Participate in daily scrums, sprint planning, review, retro showcase and backlog refinement.
• Participate in UAT and PVT testing.

What We're Looking For and What It'll Take to Drive Impact

• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile framework ideally from SAAS, financial services or tech/product led organisations.
• Demonstrated experience in page, component building and content production for mobile and web applications.
• Experience with content management systems eg Optimizely or Wordpress.
• Experience using Figma or Sketch, taking designs into CMS build.
• Experience using Jira to manage sprint deliverables.
• A keen eye for detail and UX/UI design.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• A passion for working closely with diverse stakeholder groups.

Sound like you? Apply now and help shape the digital experience of a business that truly puts people first.

Copywriter - Financial Services - B2C and B2B

• Fast-paced financial services organisation
• Develop high quality content that hits the mark with diverse target audiences
• $95k - $100k plus super

In a world full of AI generated content, this role plays a crucial role in connecting B2C and B2B audiences authentically with a dynamic brand and innovative service offering.  And your ability to leverage AI tools but inject a human element will be how you stand out and get cut through, making an impact on your end customer and the business.

What You'll Be doing

As an experienced copywriter, ideally with expertise writing compelling content for financial services, insurance or telco industries from an inhouse or agency environment, you'll work as part of an integrated brand and marketing communications team to:

• Develop cut through content across a variety of channels including social media (Insta, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn), video, email, advertising campaigns and web.
• Ensure the brand voice resonates and that content aligns with tone, style and language.
• Identify other opportunities for content to drive engagement and conversion.
• Project manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, competitor activity and consumer insights and leverage these to inform the content strategy.

How You'll Make An Impact

With demonstrated experience (agency or inhouse) developing content for financial services or other highly regulated industries and a passion for using content to connect with audiences, you bring:

• Strong writing skills that demonstrate your ability to distil complex messages.
• An ability to adapt to different tones and styles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to work at pace.
• An ability to manage complex projects in real time.

Curious to learn more?  Apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein on 0413 463 043.

Azure Cloud Engineer | Own, Build & Secure a Scalable Cloud Environment

I'm currently working with a rapidly growing, 100% cloud-native business that’s expanding their internal tech team. They’re looking for a hands-on Azure Cloud Engineer who can take ownership of their Microsoft cloud environment and help shape best practices as the company scales. This is a rare chance to step into a key role where your decisions will directly impact performance, security, and future growth.
If you're someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys building smarter infrastructure—not just maintaining it—this could be a great fit.

About the Role:

In this role, you'll work closely with senior stakeholders to design, optimise, and secure their Azure environment.
You'll have autonomy to make smart infrastructure decisions, mentor internal teams, and drive improvements across networking, identity, and hybrid workloads.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and optimise Azure infrastructure (resource groups, VMs, NSGs, VNets, firewalls)
• Implement secure configurations and follow cloud best practices
• Support and improve Microsoft 365, Intune, and Entra ID (Azure AD) environments
• Provide Level 3 support and mentor L2 engineers
• Support hybrid cloud workloads using VMware or Hyper-V

What They're Looking For:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure IaaS & PaaS services
• Ability to make infrastructure decisions (you’re not just following a runbook)
• Solid understanding of Azure networking, security, and resource structuring
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Intune, and identity/access management
• Familiarity with VMware or Hyper-V for hybrid workloads
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the confidence to take ownership

Why This Role Stands Out

• 100% cloud-native environment – no legacy baggage
• Real ownership of infrastructure decisions
• Fast-growing business with plenty of career growth opportunity
• Flexible hybrid work setupIf this sounds like something you’d be interested in, apply now. 

What if your next gig made you a better engineer, not just a faster one?

You’ve shipped enough features to know the real headaches aren’t in your code. They’re in how your code behaves in the wild. Latency, cascading failures, 3 a.m. alerts (that nobody understands)… Sound familiar?

If you’re Java Software Engineer who cares about good system design. And you’re looking for a role that will give you an actual new challenge. Then this might be the change you’re looking for.

Whether you want to move into staff/principal engineering, architecture, or even leadership.

You'll leave this role with the systems-level skills that unlock doors and the kind of confidence and capability that can’t be learned in a bootcamp, a blog post, or by adding more features.

What’s in it for you?

• Keep writing code: You’ll still spend 50–70% of your time building tools, improving services, and writing software.
• But with more impact: Your code won’t just add features. It’ll make the entire system faster, more reliable, and easier to scale.
• Own your services end to end: Design, deploy, and observe. And yes, occasionally get paged. But you’ll understand what’s going wrong, and fix it properly. And only in work time.
• Upskill: Think observability, distributed systems, incident response, capacity planning. Skills that make you unfireable.

❌ “I don’t want to just be on-call support.”
✅ You won’t be. There’s a team that handles that.  Your goal is to build systems that don’t need constant support. That’s why we need software engineers in SRE. 

❌ “I love writing code — I don’t want to become ops.”
✅ Perfect. This is still an engineering role. You’ll write code to fix problems once, not manually fix them 100 times.

❌ “I’m not an expert in infra.”
✅ Even better. We’ll teach you. If you can write good Java and think in systems, you’ve got the hard part nailed.

So you want to find out more? Well, the CEO said it best:

"Reliability isn't a cost. And it's not a support role. It's an integral strategy for customer satisfaction & retention."

That mindset has real backing here, with a full Site Reliability Engineering team led by a former Google SRE.

This is your chance to learn from people who’ve built reliable systems at massive scale. No gatekeeping. No firefighting 24/7. There’s no on-call work. You’ll get space to explore, build, and grow, with mentorship baked into the team culture.

What’s the environment?

• Cloud-native tech: Over 1000 microservices across AWS and GCP, built with modern patterns (event-driven architecture, platform ops model).
• Healthy team size: Big enough for support, small enough for you to make a visible impact.
• Hybrid work model: 2 days a week in the office. Flexible hours. No clock-watchers.
• Direct access to leaders: You’ll get face time with the CTO, VP Eng, and key squads. And they actually want your input.

Have you got the right experience? 

We’re not looking for perfection. We’re looking for potential. If you’re a Senior Java Dev with system design skills, and care deeply about good engineering, this could be your launchpad into something new.

Want to find out more?

That’s easy. Just send an email to Julien@theonset.com.au. Apply to this ad. Or give me a call on 0406 158 832. 

Don’t worry if your CV isn’t up to date. We can worry about that later. 

Own the platform. Shape the standards. Deliver results that actually matter.

This is your chance to step into a true AWS infrastructure role — where you’ll lead the design, scale, and optimisation of a multi-account AWS environment from the ground up. No DevOps pipelines. No vague responsibilities. Just real infrastructure challenges, and the support to solve them your way.

We’re transforming a large, on-prem enterprise into a cloud-first business — and you’ll be the one driving the AWS platform strategy, backed by leadership and working directly with senior stakeholders.

If you’re the kind of engineer who wants ownership, not tickets — this is for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architecting secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments across multiple accounts
• Designing and automating infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Evaluate and enhance cloud infrastructure to efficiently support 1,000-1,500 users while maintaining optimal performance.
• Leading infrastructure uplift projects focused on AWS networking, IAM, storage, and compute
• Implementing strong cloud governance, tagging frameworks, and FinOps best practices
• Using tools like CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor infrastructure health, capacity, and utilisation
• Supporting disaster recovery, multi-region design, and high availability strategies
• Working closely with security, compliance, and architecture teams on platform-wide initiatives
• Sharing knowledge and mentoring others in AWS infrastructure design and cost optimisation

Tech Stack & Tools

• Core AWS Services: EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM
• IaC: Terraform or CloudFormation
• Monitoring & Governance: Datadog, CloudWatch, AWS Config, Budgets, Cost Explorer
• Security & DR: IAM, SCPs, KMS, backup strategies, multi-account security frameworks

Who 
you are:

• A specialist in AWS infrastructure with 5+ years of cloud engineering experience
• Able to design and implement complex, enterprise-grade AWS solutions
• Experienced in optimising infrastructure for cost, scale, and performance — and can prove it
• Strong on automation, but only where it drives efficiency, governance, or resilience

Why You Should Apply


• Be at the forefront of a major cloud transformation from on-prem to AWS.
• Make measurable impact through performance, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Opportunity to shape cloud strategy and have full backing to implement changes.

This is more than just a BAU role—it is an opportunity to make a real impact. If you have a passion for problem-solving and a drive to thrive hit the apply button!