Tammy Irvine

NZ Tech Hiring – July 2025 A quick pulse check for anyone recruiting in the current climate. 📉 Perm hiring remains slow across a lot of the tech space — particularly mid-senior delivery, engineering and leadership roles. Most businesses are being cautious, prioritising BAU over transformation unless it's tied to revenue, risk or compliance. 🛠️ Contracting is ticking along, especially in areas like cloud, cyber, data, and large regulatory programmes. We're seeing demand for flexible resources, often scoped to shorter terms. 📊 The good news? There’s solid talent on the market. Some high-calibre PMs, developers, BAs and architects are open to work following restructures and programme wrap-ups. These aren’t the “active candidates” from job boards — these are proven operators who are open to the right opportunity. 🎯 But that’s the catch: they’re being selective. People are looking for clarity — hybrid expectations, meaningful work, and engaged leadership. The days of vague briefs and unclear pipelines won’t cut it. 🔍 From a recruiter’s view, the market is: Candidate-rich but opportunity-lean Fast-moving in contracting Quietly competitive for top-tier talent If you're hiring and not seeing results, it may be time to reassess how the role is positioned, or how you're approaching the market. Always happy to talk through what we're seeing firsthand. #techrecruitment #nztech #contractingnz #digitalhiring #talentmarket #techjobsnz #marketinsights

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A lot of interest today in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) launch of its Auckland data centre region. I've done a number of interviews on this. A few thoughts about it: - I thought there would be some actual news - most of this was announced years ago, with a few updates in recent months about the anchor tenants. - Whether the investment amounts to $7.5 billion over 15 years or a fraction of the claimed amount, it's good to have significant investment from a multinational going ahead despite our economic challenges. Access to local instances of Bedrock, Sagemaker and close proximity to their data centres sees us finally catch up with most other developed nations. - I wish AWS would just say where their colocated data centres are and who operates them and be open about their stalled efforts in West Auckland to build their own one. It would build public trust and confidence in the long run. Great work from Jonathan Milne gleaning what he could about those stalled efforts. https://lnkd.in/gRGddHMg - The AWS renewable energy deal with Mercury gives them reasonable capacity, just like Microsoft's deal with Contact Energy, but both data centre operators are essentially drawing power from the national grid. If the squeeze goes on due to fluctuations in renewables, they'll be burning coal to power their data centres, just like every other business. How would that reconcile with their 100% renewables pledges? Buy carbon credits to top up? - AWS couldn't tell me, but I don't expect large-scale AI workloads to be running in those data centres in the short term - it will largely be what NZ Inc. prioritises in the digital world - data and applications hosting. But the free training opportunities (50,000 Kiwis trained in cloud skills, and another 50,000 to go, according to AWS) represent an opportunity for people to gain some cloud skills at a time when unemployment is high. - Great to have the multinationals with robust infrastructure here, but we should still pursue sovereign cloud and AI efforts to make sure we aren't locked in to the big three US cloud platforms, particularly in the current geopolitical climate.

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Tanda sells all-in-one workforce software (Payroll + Rostering + HR), for $12.80 per user per month all inclusive. Dollar for dollar, it’s the best offering in the Australian market. Tanda’s software is built by our team in Brisbane. Off the shelf, it automates more complex modern award pay rules than any other product. It also works at scale. There are many 10,000+ staff count businesses on Tanda. Our support team is based in Brisbane. We don’t sub-licence our payroll product, all of our products were built by our team in-house. That means there’s less moving parts, it all works well together, and we can support all of our core product code ourselves without being beholden to third parties. But the main reason Tanda is able to vend software this cheap is we don’t spend any money on bus advertisements or suing people. We just put that money back into making and supporting software.

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