Senior Java Engineer – AI & Automation Platforms (Contract)

Overview

We’re partnering with a leading financial services organisation currently investing heavily across backend engineering, AI integration, and automation capability.

As part of a broader uplift across enterprise platforms and intelligent workflow systems, they’re looking to engage several Senior Java Engineers on initial 12-month contracts.

These roles sit within high-performing engineering teams focused on building scalable, production-grade systems leveraging modern cloud architecture, AI-enabled tooling, and automation frameworks.

Day to day activities 

• Design and develop scalable backend applications and distributed systems using Java
• Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platform components
• Contribute to AI-enabled workflow and automation initiatives across enterprise environments
• Work closely with engineering, platform, and architecture teams on modernisation programs
• Support integration of LLM/GenAI capabilities into production systems and internal tooling
• Drive engineering best practices across performance, scalability, reliability, and security

Your career so far

• Strong commercial experience across Java engineering and backend system design
• Experience building scalable APIs and microservices architectures
• Exposure to cloud-native environments, ideally GCP
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and enterprise application architecture
• Experience working within complex engineering environments and agile delivery teams

Big bonus points 

• Experience working with LLMs/GenAI solutions in production environments
• Exposure to AI-driven automation or workflow orchestration platforms
• Experience with containerisation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, or DevOps tooling
• Background within financial services, enterprise SaaS, or high-scale platforms

Contract Details

• Initial 12-month contract engagements
• Up to 1150 inclusive of Super 
• Multiple positions available
• Sydney-based & Hybrid
• 3 days on site 

This is an opportunity to join a large-scale engineering program where AI capability is being embedded into real production systems, platforms, and operational workflows.

Principal Engineer – Distributed Platforms | Java / Spring Boot / Cloud

This is an opportunity to help lead a genuine platform transformation — not maintain legacy systems.

We’re building the next generation of a large-scale operational platform and are looking for a Principal Engineer who wants to shape architecture, influence engineering culture, and drive modern software practices at scale.

You’ll play a leading role in evolving a complex monolithic environment into a modern distributed architecture while helping define how engineering teams build, collaborate, and deliver moving forward.

This role is ideal for someone who still loves solving hard technical problems hands-on, but also wants ownership, influence, and the ability to drive meaningful change across a growing engineering organisation.

Why This Role Stands Out

This is not a passive architecture role.

You’ll be technically leading from the front — influencing platform strategy, mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and contributing directly to critical engineering initiatives.

You’ll help shape:

• the future distributed systems architecture
• modern cloud platform capability
• developer experience and engineering standards
• AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices
• how teams scale and deliver software effectively

The environment is heavily focused on modernisation, platform evolution, and engineering uplift, with significant investment across the platform function and multiple new engineering hires planned.

If you enjoy building modern systems, introducing new ideas, and solving complex scaling and architectural problems, this is the kind of role where you can have real impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the evolution from monolithic applications into scalable distributed microservices architecture
• Drive architectural and technical decision-making across core platform systems
• Design and build modern cloud-native applications using Java and Spring Boot
• Work across complex distributed systems challenges including scalability, resilience, performance, observability, and maintainability
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to shape long-term platform direction
• Lead technical discovery, proof-of-concepts, and critical engineering initiatives
• Mentor engineers and uplift technical capability across teams
• Improve developer experience, engineering efficiency, and platform tooling
• Champion modern software engineering approaches including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows
• Bring new ideas, techniques, and engineering practices into the organisation

What We’re Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience building modern Java applications using Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Experience modernising or decomposing monolithic applications into scalable distributed platforms
• Strong cloud engineering capability across AWS and/or GCP
• Experience designing resilient, high-performing, maintainable software systems
• Understanding of frontend application architecture with exposure to Angular or React environments
• Strong technical leadership capability with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders alike
• Passion for improving engineering practices, developer experience, and technical quality
• Curiosity around emerging engineering tooling, AI-assisted development, and agentic coding practices
• A proactive mindset with strong ownership and accountability
• Someone who enjoys solving difficult technical problems and driving change through engineering leadership

The Environment

• Modern platform transformation initiative
• Large-scale distributed systems challenges
• Growing engineering organisation with continued investment
• Strong focus on engineering quality and platform evolution
• Opportunity to influence technical direction at scale
• Hybrid and flexible working environment
• High-trust culture with genuine technical ownership

This is the kind of role suited to engineers who want more than just delivery responsibility — people who want to influence architecture, shape engineering culture, and help define how modern software engineering is practiced within a growing platform environment.

Strategic Growth Manager

Shape the growth strategy for a leading consultancy firm operating across the built environment.

• Drive strategic growth initiatives across major infrastructure, property and construction sectors
• Partner directly with senior leadership and key client teams
• Blend of strategy, market intelligence, client engagement and business development

This is a high-impact role operating at the intersection of business development, market strategy and stakeholder engagement. Working closely with senior leadership, sector leads and national teams, you’ll help shape and execute growth initiatives that strengthen market presence and unlock new opportunities across key sectors.

The role suits someone commercially minded, strategically curious and highly relationship-driven who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with leadership teams to develop and execute sector and client growth strategies
• Analyse market trends, client activity and competitive insights to identify growth opportunities
• Facilitate strategic planning sessions, account reviews and pursuit workshops
• Support key pursuits, positioning strategies and business development initiatives
• Drive collaboration across marketing, bids, research and client teams
• Strengthen client engagement and support strategic relationship management
• Coordinate participation in industry events and networking opportunities
• Leverage CRM and market intelligence data to provide actionable commercial insights

What We’re Looking For

• Strategic business development, growth or client engagement experience from professional services, infrastructure, property, construction or related sectors
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management capability
• Ability to translate market insights into practical growth strategies
• Experience working cross-functionally across senior leadership, marketing and client teams
• Strong communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills
• CRM proficiency and confidence using data to drive decision making

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to play a strategic role within a highly respected business operating on complex, high-profile projects across the built environment sector.

You’ll join a collaborative and forward-thinking business where you can influence growth strategy, strengthen market positioning and work closely with senior leaders to drive meaningful outcomes.

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

Partnerships Lead

• Own and scale partnerships and direct acquisition channels
• B2B and B2C focus
• $165k plus super

Drive growth, partnerships and digital performance in a high-impact automotive finance role.

We’re looking for a commercially minded Partnerships Lead to own and scale a growing automotive lending portfolio across OEM partnerships and direct digital acquisition channels.

This is a high-impact role focused on driving growth, conversion, customer experience and profitability across both B2B partnership and direct-to-consumer channels. You’ll be in the driving seat (no pun intended) to bring together digital growth, product optimisation, partnerships and commercial strategy.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex growth problems and love using data to optimise customer journeys, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a real impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

OEM and Partnership Growth

• Manage and grow key automotive OEM partnerships
• Execute incentive and campaign activity across partner networks
• Optimise pricing, margin performance and commercial outcomes
• Identify opportunities for deeper integration, dealer engagement and customer growth
• Support onboarding and operational rollout of new automotive partnerships

Digital Acquisition and Funnel Optimisation

• Own performance across direct automotive acquisition channels
• Partner with Growth teams across paid, affiliate and organic channels
• Lead end-to-end funnel optimisation initiatives to improve conversion and customer experience
• Design and execute A/B testing across pricing, messaging, UX and application flows
• Improve mobile experience, form design and completion rates

Data, Insights and Performance

• Monitor daily, weekly and monthly performance metrics
• Analyse funnel and customer data to identify trends and optimisation opportunities
• Develop targeted pricing and acquisition strategies
• Use insights to balance growth, profitability and risk-adjusted returns

Cross-Functional Impact and Connectivity

• Work closely with Product, Technology, Risk, Operations, Marketing and Customer teams
• Define business requirements for new features and platform improvements
• Support strategic initiatives across automotive and lending partnerships

What It Will Take To Succeed

• Experience in Product Management, Growth, Digital Performance, Partnerships or Commercial roles
• Experience in fintech, lending, automotive finance will be highly advantageous
• Strong commercial acumen with exposure to pricing, margins and performance optimisation
• Experience improving digital funnels, acquisition performance and customer journeys
• Strong analytical capability with confidence interpreting data and performance metrics
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience working with OEMs, dealers or automotive ecosystems will be a huge plus
• Basic SQL and experimentation/A-B testing experience advantageous

Why This Role?

• High ownership and visibility across a growing business
• Blend of commercial strategy, partnerships and digital optimisation
• Opportunity to shape customer experience and growth outcomes end-to-end
• Fast-paced, collaborative environment with strong career growth potential
• Loads of connectivity with and dealings with the senior leadership team and co-founder

If you’re excited by digital growth, partnerships and building scalable customer acquisition channels, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

One of the more interesting searches we are working on right now.

Partnering with a global technology company to hire a senior analytics leader sitting at the intersection of:

• Product & Technology Operations
• Data & insights
• AI-enabled transformation
• Strategic decision-making
• Executive stakeholder engagement

The person stepping into this role will help shape how a Product & Technology organisation makes decisions, whether it is bringing together operational, financial, delivery and workforce data to drive clarity, prioritisation and action.

A big part of the role is translating complexity into meaningful insights for senior leaders across Product, Engineering and Operations.

What are some of the problems that you will solve?

• Engineering productivity and operational health
• Workforce and organisational analytics
• Product portfolio prioritisation
• AI impact across the product development lifecycle
• Building reporting frameworks and dashboards that genuinely improve decision-making and reduce operational friction

We are looking for someone commercially minded, operationally aware and technically credible. It is someone who can comfortably move between data, systems, strategy and executive conversations.

• Strong SQL and analytics capability, with experience working across large, complex and diverse datasets to generate meaningful business insights
• Proficiency in BI and dashboarding tools (eg. Tableau, Power BI), including the ability to QA, cleanse and transform raw data into clear, actionable reporting
• Commercially minded with strong operational acumen, able to simplify complexity and connect analytics to strategic decision-making
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and data storytelling skills, with the confidence to influence both technical and non-technical leaders in senior forums

Shape the future of junior talent within a global technology environment

Sydney or Melbourne location

About the Role

This is an opportunity to redefine what junior talent looks like in a modern technology organisation.

The graduate programme has been running successfully since 2015 and has built a strong reputation in market, attracting high-calibre talent and delivering a highly regarded graduate experience. But the environment has changed. AI is reshaping the nature of junior work, capability needs are evolving, and the business is rethinking how early careers talent fits into the future workforce.

This newly created role will establish and lead the strategic direction for the Junior Talent Programme across Product & Technology.

You’ll work closely with TX, PX and senior Product & Technology leaders to redesign and evolve the programme for the future - ensuring it aligns to workforce planning, future capability needs and long-term business strategy.

Your Remit

Programme Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Define the future direction of the Junior Talent Programme
• Partner with Product & Technology leaders to understand future workforce and capability needs
• Review programme structure, scale and future location strategy
• Help shape how junior talent works alongside AI and automation
• Support roadmap planning for future graduate programmes

Programme Design & Delivery

• Lead the design and evolution of graduate and early careers programmes
• Establish consistent onboarding and team placement experiences
• Build strong programme structure, engagement and graduate community experiences
• Develop and track programme success measures and performance metrics
• Ensure programmes continue to align with business and workforce needs

Stakeholder Engagement & Talent Partnership

• Partner closely with TX on attraction strategy, university engagement and selection processes
• Work across Product, Engineering, Security, Data and PX stakeholder groups
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the business
• Support leaders in understanding where junior talent best fits within future team structures

What sets you up for success

• Experience in Talent Acquisition for Technical roles, People Experience, or Early Careers management within the technology sector is essential
• Strong degree of technical acumen and understanding of SDLC environments
• Experience working within technology or SaaS organisations and understanding how Product & Technology teams operate day to day
• Strong stakeholder engagement capability across technical and senior leadership groups
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving and globally distributed environments
• Strong programme and project management capability
• Curious and forward-thinking, particularly around AI, workforce planning and the future of junior talent

About You

• You have worked within a technology or SaaS business and understand how Product & Technology organisations operate. This is a non-negotiable requirement for the role.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, building relationships across complex stakeholder groups and balancing strategic thinking with programme delivery.
• You’re interested in the future of work, how AI is reshaping junior talent and how organisations continue to build strong early careers pathways in rapidly evolving technical environments.

What’s On Offer

• Strong benefits package including ESP, flexible hybrid working and one of the strongest leave offerings in market.
• High visibility across senior leadership
• Strong employee resource groups and inclusive internal communities
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced Product & Technology leaders in a fast-moving environment

This role requires someone who understands how Product & Technology teams actually operate. If you haven’t worked within a technology or SaaS environment and don’t understand how Product & Technology functions work, this role won’t be the right fit.

If this sounds like you, apply now or contact Geri Condon at The Onset on 0404 183 291.

 Senior Data & Analytics Engineer

Own the Data Backbone of an AI-Driven Tech Scaleup

Not every data engineering role gives you the chance to build the engine room.

This one does.

We’re partnering with a fast-growing Australian technology company that’s transforming a traditional industry through AI, automation, and data-driven products. With strong product-market fit, growing enterprise customers, and ambitious expansion plans, they’re now looking for a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer to take ownership of their modern data platform.

This is not a “maintain the dashboards” kind of role.

You’ll sit at the centre of a business where data powers:

• real-time operational workflows,
• AI-driven automation,
• customer analytics,
• computer vision models,
• document intelligence,
• and next-generation AI products.

The foundations are already in place - Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, AWS - but the business has reached the point where they need someone senior enough to evolve the architecture, modernise pipelines, and drive the next phase of scale.

That’s where you come in.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a small, highly collaborative Data & AI team in a genuinely high-ownership role.

You won’t inherit layers of process, large support teams, or narrowly defined responsibilities.

Instead, you’ll become the owner of the company’s “Data Hub” - the core platform powering everything from customer-facing reporting through to AI model training and real-time automation workflows.

One day you might be:

• redesigning real-time data pipelines,
• optimising Snowflake and ETL architecture,
• improving governance and access controls,
• enabling natural-language analytics experiences,
• or building pipelines for OCR, PDF extraction, and computer vision workloads.

Why This Role Is Different

The business is specifically looking for someone who can think strategically while remaining deeply hands-on.

You’ll have the autonomy to:

• shape architectural direction,
• influence platform strategy,
• solve real business problems,
• and build solutions yourself.

This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership and wants their work to directly influence product capability, AI innovation, and business growth.

The Tech Stack

Core Technologies

• Snowflake
• dbt
• Fivetran
• AWS (S3, Athena, EFS, QuickSight)
• SQL
• Python
• Supabase

What You’ll Be Working On

ETL Modernisation

Help redesign current batch-based data architecture into a more real-time capable environment that supports AI automation and operational workflows. Send your resume to reema@theonset.com.au

Modern Reporting & Analytics

Drive the next generation of customer-facing analytics and self-service reporting, including natural language querying experiences.

Data Governance & Security

Strengthen access controls, governance frameworks, and platform compliance while improving scalability and operational maturity.

AI & Unstructured Data

Build and optimise pipelines for documents, PDFs, images, OCR, and computer vision workloads that directly power AI products.

What They’re Looking For

You’re likely someone who:

• has strong end-to-end data engineering experience,
• enjoys autonomy and ownership,
• thrives in startup or scaleup environments,
• and is excited by AI-enabled products and unstructured data problems.

You don’t need to be an ML Engineer - but you do need to understand how modern AI systems consume and rely on data.

Ideal Experience

• 5+ years in Data Engineering / Analytics Engineering
• Strong Snowflake expertise
• Advanced SQL & Python
• Experience designing scalable data architectures
• Exposure to real-time or event-driven pipelines
• Experience with OCR, document processing, or computer vision pipelines is highly valued
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

If you’re excited by the idea of building a modern data platform at the intersection of AI, automation, analytics, and product innovation - we’d love to hear from you.

AI Strategy Consultant

We are partnering with a growing consultancy focused on helping organisations navigate AI-driven transformation and operational change.

They are looking for an experienced consultant and strategic advisor who can work closely with clients to identify where AI can genuinely create value, what needs to change operationally, and how businesses can build practical roadmaps for adoption.

This is not a hands-on engineering or data science role. The focus is on commercial strategy, organisational change, stakeholder engagement, and transformation delivery.

You’ll work across a broad range of clients and projects, helping leadership teams navigate emerging technology, prioritise initiatives, and drive meaningful business outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Advising clients on AI adoption strategies and transformation initiatives
• Identifying commercially viable AI opportunities across different business functions
• Facilitating workshops and strategic discovery sessions with senior stakeholders
• Developing roadmaps, operating models, and implementation plans
• Supporting organisational change and adoption initiatives
• Translating emerging AI capabilities into practical business outcomes
• Working closely with executive teams to align strategy, operations, and delivery
• Staying informed on developments within the AI landscape and helping clients navigate a rapidly evolving market

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in consulting, transformation, strategy, or advisory environments
• Strong track record of leading organisational or operational change programs
• Ability to engage credibly with executive and senior business stakeholders
• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance innovation with practical delivery
• Curiosity and awareness around the evolving AI landscape and its business implications
• Experience developing strategic roadmaps and guiding implementation programs
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to operate across multiple industries and business environments

Experience across transport, logistics, supply chain, or professional services environments will be highly regarded.

Ideal backgrounds may include

• AI or digital transformation consulting
• Enterprise strategy and transformation
• Innovation and advisory consulting
• SaaS or technology transformation leadership
• Operational transformation and change management
• Customer transformation or strategic advisory roles

The opportunity

This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of emerging technology, business strategy, and transformation. You’ll partner with organisations tackling complex operational and strategic challenges, helping shape how AI is adopted in practical and commercially meaningful ways.

If you enjoy working with senior stakeholders, navigating ambiguity, and helping businesses drive real change, we’d love to hear from you.

Junior Production Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Production Manager to take ownership of the systems, processes and day-to-day coordination behind the manufacture of our rail-focused IoT technology.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their management career who is ready to step up, show initiative and make a visible impact. You will work closely with our engineering team, operations team and production technician to keep production running smoothly, improve how we build and test products, and help ensure high-quality components and assemblies are available when needed.

You will have the opportunity to shape and improve core production processes, from stock control and supplier coordination through to assembly documentation, quality checks, production readiness and factory acceptance testing. As Telemattica continues to grow, this role offers a clear pathway to develop your skills across operations, quality, supplier management and production leadership.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving practical problems, taking responsibility for outcomes, and building reliable processes that help turn engineering innovation into products deployed on rail networks around the world.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day production activities with the production technician and engineering team.
• Help plan production builds, ensuring required components, assemblies and documentation are available.
• Manage stock control, component availability and production readiness using MRP, ERP or stock management systems.
• Coordinate with suppliers to support component availability, quality and delivery requirements.
• Develop, maintain and improve production documentation, including assembly instructions, inspection procedures and factory acceptance test processes.
• Support goods inward inspection, in-process checks and final acceptance testing.
• Work with engineering to introduce design changes into production in a controlled and traceable way.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to production efficiency, quality and repeatability.
• Support quality management processes, including those required for ISO 9001 or similar standards.

About you

You are early in your management career and looking for a role you can make your own. You enjoy taking responsibility for a process, working with others to solve problems, and turning engineering work into reliable production outcomes.

You have experience in manufacturing, quality systems or production processes, and you are comfortable making practical decisions independently. You have strong attention to detail, communicate clearly, and are happy working across hands-on production, planning, documentation and supplier coordination.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in manufacturing, production, quality, operations or a related technical role.
• Tertiary education in engineering, science or a related technical field.
• Experience with MRP, ERP or stock management systems.
• Experience working with manufacturing technicians, production staff or external manufacturers.
• Experience managing suppliers or coordinating component procurement, delivery and quality.
• Experience working with quality processes such as goods inward inspection, in-process checks or factory acceptance testing.
• Ability to create and maintain clear production documentation, such as work instructions, inspection records or test procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and a pragmatic approach to solving production issues.

Nice to have

• Experience working within an ISO 9001 quality management system.
• Experience developing or improving goods inward inspection processes, factory acceptance tests or production quality checks.
• Experience developing assembly instructions, work instructions or production travellers.
• Experience with BOM management, engineering change control or production release processes.
• Previous experience supervising or mentoring a small team.
• Experience with electronics, electromechanical assemblies, IoT devices or industrial products.

3 month contract role as a Network Security Engineer responsible for the company’s network across multiple sites. The network uses SD-WAN, Fortigate firewalls, WatchGuard, and remote access is currently managed via Netskope, transitioning to Zscaler.

They will handle operational network tasks, while also reviewing the network across all sites, identifying issues, single points of failure, and providing recommendations. They will take ownership of resolving problems and improving the network’s stability and security.

This role is a cover while full-time staff are being hired, once they are onboarded, this contractor role can shift to a more strategic focus, helping shape the network strategy and modern SASE deployment while full-time staff manage day-to-day operations.

The ideal candidate has a strong Cisco networking background and experience with firewalls, remote access solutions, and modern SASE technologies, able to combine hands-on operations with strategic insight.

Ideally, you will have:

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on network engineering experience.

• Proven experience in network audits and remediation projects.

• Expertise in Cisco Wireless solutions, including WLCs and Access Points, and Cisco L2/L3 switches (VLANs, trunking, port channels, STP).

• Strong understanding of IPsec/SSL VPNs, SD-WAN, GRE, BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.

• Experience with professional Wi-Fi survey tools and structured cabling for copper and fiber.

• Hands-on experience with SASE platforms, Zero Trust architectures, Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls, Zscaler, and Netskope.

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265