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About our Consulting services

The Aquarium’s Consulting service focuses on delivering high quality outcomes tailored to your needs.  
The Aquarium can co-design highly productive teams,  blending experienced professionals alongside emerging talent, with an emphasis on diversity.

The Aquarium can provide niche talent to augment your teams, whether technical, product or process-specific.  This talent is sourced from our consulting bench or our broad network of proven and experienced contractors.  We have an extensive team of security-cleared professionals and can provide consultants remotely, on your site (or your client’s site) or through a hybrid model.  Our consulting practice also has in-depth experience and can provide outcome-based services in a number of key areas – see below for additional information.

Outcome-based services

Recruitment Services
Squad-As-A-Service
Offshore Support
The Associates of Diversity
program
Testing-As-A-Service

Outcome-based services

Recruitment Services

Whether you require contingent resources for short-term projects or permanent hires to join your long-term workforce, we have the expertise to fulfill your requirements.

Contingent recruitment

For projects with specific timelines and deliverables, our contract recruitment services provide access to a contingent workforce. We quickly connect you with skilled professionals who possess the expertise required to meet your project goals. With our contract recruitment solutions, you can scale your team as project demands fluctuate, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost-effectiveness.

Permanent recruitment

When you need to make long-term additions to your team, our permanent recruitment services connect you with exceptional talent. We understand your organisation's culture, values, and specific job requirements to identify candidates who align with your vision. Our experienced recruiters leverage industry knowledge and an extensive network to find the right fit for your organisation's long-term success.

Relocation & Sponsorship

When specialised skills or expertise are not readily available in Australia, we offer relocation and sponsorship solutions to help you access overseas candidates and bridge the talent gap. As an accredited sponsor, we can provide appropriate visas and facilitate a path to permanent residency for qualified candidates.

Contract to Permanent Transition

The Aquarium's Contractor to Permanent Transition Program offers a cost-effective solution for businesses or government organisations to hire staff in a risk-free manner. Our talented and enthusiastic consultants are eager to learn about your business and quickly contribute value, showcasing their capabilities before transitioning to your permanent staff after 12 months.

Designed specifically to identify, recruit, train, and deploy technical, support, and project-focused staff, the program caters to various roles such as project management, business analysis, software development, testing, support, and network engineering.

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Squad-As-A-Service

Squad-As-A-Service is a game-changing solution designed to provide clients with fully functional, high-performing squads that can be deployed rapidly to address capability gaps. These ready-to-go units are skilled across a wide range of technology capabilities, ensuring businesses can deliver on their goals with speed, precision, and confidence.

Whether the need is for a short-term boost in expertise or ongoing support for a critical project, SaaS offers a flexible and scalable approach to team augmentation.

Key Features
Ready-to-Go Teams

Pre-formed squads of experienced professionals, including:

  • Program/Scrum/Project Management - ensuring smooth delivery and alignment with project goals.
  • Enterprise & Solution Architecture: Building robust and scalable systems.
  • Business Analysis: Translating business needs into actionable insights.
  • Service, Product, and HCD Design: Crafting user-centered solutions that drive value.
  • Computer Engineering and Coding: Delivering high-quality, efficient code.
  • Testing: Ensuring reliability through rigorous quality assurance processes.
Instant Technology Gap Filler

Instantly fill technology gaps across a wide range of platforms including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Salesforce, Mendix, Fortinet, ServiceNow, Splunk and many more.

Rapid Deployment

Squads are operational from day one, requiring minimal ramp-up time.

Customisable Teams

Tailored squads to fit the specific needs of the project or organisation, ensuring the right mix of skills and expertise.

Flexible Engagement Models

Engage squads for short-term projects, long-term initiatives, or intermittent support based on business requirements.

Proven Methodologies

Teams equipped with industry best practices, agile delivery methods, and cutting-edge tools.

Offshore support

The Aquarium excels in rapidly establishing an offshore support facility, typically within 4-6 weeks, in the Philippines. Our state-of-the-art offices offer modern spaces with video conferencing-equipped boardrooms, meeting rooms, and training rooms. With a 24x7 ITIL service desk and network operations centre, we ensure reliable support. Our facilities boast robust infrastructure, including three backhaul independent fibre internet connections, high availability core infrastructure, managed Windows domain, and centrally managed antivirus solution.

Additionally, our comprehensive service includes onsite HR management, legal employment, induction and orientation of staff, HR reporting, productivity monitoring, attendance reporting, and termination of non-performing staff, if needed. With an impressive low attrition rate of only 4.8% per annum, we prioritise employee well-being and ensure a stable and dedicated workforce.

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The Associates of Diversity program

The Aquarium's Associates of Diversity Program offers a cost-effective way for businesses and government entities to rapidly scale diverse teams and leverage a wide variety of talent. Our talented and enthusiastic associates are keen to learn and get up to speed quickly, freeing up the more senior team members to focus on higher value tasks. The Program has been designed specifically to identify, recruit, train and deploy diverse associates to meet a client’s requirements, whether that be – for example - project management, business analysis, software development, PMO. testing, support or network engineering.

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Testing-As-A-Service

The Aquarium's Testing Capability offers a cost-effective solution for businesses or government organisations seeking to rapidly scale their testing and quality assurance (QA) efforts. With the ability to offer remote testing services from our locations in Australia or offshore, we ensure flexibility and convenience for our clients.

Our teams, comprising of experienced testers and enthusiastic associate testers, are available both onshore and offshore. These teams receive comprehensive support from various resources within The Aquarium, including our PMO reporting function, dedicated Workforce Managers, and Service Delivery Managers. Leveraging our bench capability, Associate Program, and offshore partners, we can quickly ramp up teams to meet the evolving needs of our clients.

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IT & T specialisation

The Aquarium Professional Services specialises in providing top-notch talent in various domains, catering to your specific needs. With a dedicated team of experts, we ensure that you have access to the best professionals in the industry. Our primary areas of expertise include:

  • Digital
  • Information Technology
  • Project Services, Strategy & Change
  • Products & Marketing
  • Engineering
  • Human Resources
  • Other
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Team Builder

We are a strong believer in the power of the team. Building productive and innovative teams takes experience and partnership, but highly-performing teams can build solutions faster and more effectively than just managed resources.

We will work with you to build the best team for your needs, including:

  • Ensuring they are diverse and inclusive
  • Blending experienced and less experienced team members to meet your budget
  • Implementing the best processes for collaboration and communication to fit within your culture
  • Providing appropriate tools to enable your team to transfer knowledge to new members or other teams rapidly
  • Empowering the team to innovate
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Contract to Permanent
Transition Program

The Aquarium's Contractor to Permanent Transition Program offers a cost-effective solution for businesses or government organisations to hire staff in a risk-free manner. Our talented and enthusiastic consultants are eager to learn about your business and quickly contribute value, showcasing their capabilities before transitioning to your permanent staff after 12 months.

Designed specifically to identify, recruit, train, and deploy technical, support, and project-focused staff, the program caters to various roles such as project management, business analysis, software development, testing, support, and network engineering.

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The Associates of Diversity program

The Aquarium's Associates of Diversity Program offers a cost-effective way for businesses and government entities to rapidly scale diverse teams and leverage a wide variety of talent. Our talented and enthusiastic associates are keen to learn and get up to speed quickly, freeing up the more senior team members to focus on higher value tasks. The Program has been designed specifically to identify, recruit, train and deploy diverse associates to meet a client’s requirements, whether that be – for example - project management, business analysis, software development, PMO. testing, support or network engineering.

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