Sword Group

Data Scientist

• Shape the Data & AI vision and go-to-market
• Drive revenue growth and pipeline development
• Build a scaled, high-performing capability
• Ensure high-quality, outcome-led delivery across key clients
• Work with the very latest Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Purview, and Microsoft Foundry
• Contribute to pre-sales activity by joining client calls, shaping proposals, and advising on solution approaches

Head of Data

Data Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high performing data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric Pipelines, or Databricks
• Integrate data from multiple systems into Azure Data Lake Storage or OneLake, ensuring consistency, reliability, and performance
• Develop and maintain ELT/ETL processes using Azure-native tools and Fabric capabilities, optimising for cost and performance
• Build and maintain Microsoft Fabric artefacts including lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, dataflows, and semantic models
• Perform advanced data transformations using SQL, Python, Spark, or Fabric Data Engineering experiences to prepare data for analytics and reporting
• Manage and optimise data models used by Power BI, ensuring good performance, relationships, quality, and reusability
• Support enterprise BI development by preparing datasets, semantic models, and reusable components within Power BI and Fabric
• Apply data governance and security best practices by implementing Purview classification, lineage, access controls, and policies
• Conduct data quality checks, data validation routines, and issue resolution to ensure trustworthy and reliable datasets
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (data architects, analysts, data scientists, product teams) to understand requirements and translate them into robust data solutions
• Engage directly with clients and stakeholders to clarify data needs, communicate progress, and explain technical concepts in a clear, accessible way
• Take ownership of more complex engineering tasks and assist senior engineers with solution components requiring deeper technical insight
• Mentor junior engineers by providing guidance, performing code reviews, and sharing best practices in engineering standards and Azure environments
• Contribute to CI/CD processes, version control practices, and automated deployment pipelines for data solutions
• Support the creation of documentation for pipelines, datasets, data models, and solution designs
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, performance issues, and data inconsistencies, ensuring the stability and reliability of production workloads
• Stay current with emerging tools and capabilities across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Purview, and Microsoft Foundry
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, scalability, or maintainability across existing pipelines and solutions
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, best-practice development, and engineering accelerators or templates

Account Manager

• Maintain and manage the IT supplier portfolio, ensuring accurate supplier records and clear ownership
• Oversee supplier performance, tracking delivery against SLAs, KPIs, and contractual commitments
• Lead monthly service review meetings, driving accountability and continuous improvement
• Establish and facilitate supplier feedback forums to strengthen collaboration and service quality
• Support effective management of the IT budget, ensuring efficient and value-driven spend
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and specifications, enabling appropriate sourcing of goods and services
• Manage and resolve supplier-related issues, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
• Ensure suppliers deliver in line with agreed contractual obligations and performance expectations

IT Supplier Relationship Manager

Consultant

• Support the adoption and enablement of Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform capabilities across the business.
• Deliver workshops, one-to-one coaching sessions, and hands-on support to users with varying technical experience.
• Empower business users to create and manage custom AI agents and automations using Copilot Studio.
• Create user guides, how-to documentation, and reusable learning materials to support self-service adoption.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate technical concepts into practical business outcomes.
• Support governance and visibility initiatives by maintaining and updating Power Platform inventory and monitoring tools.
• Promote best practices around platform usage, environments, and solution lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.
• Help establish scalable ways of working that encourage safe, effective, and sustainable adoption of AI-powered capabilities.

Copilot Enablement Consultant

Analyst

• Support the definition of UAT and OAT scenarios aligned to programme objectives and operational requirements.
• Develop structured and traceable test cases with clear acceptance criteria.
• Design and prepare representative test datasets to support realistic end-to-end validation.
• Coordinate testing activities across business and technical teams, ensuring effective engagement with SMEs and stakeholders.
• Work closely with project managers, delivery teams, architects, and data specialists to support successful testing outcomes.
• Track testing progress, dependencies, risks, and defects, communicating updates clearly to stakeholders.
• Maintain auditable records of test execution, outcomes, defects, resolutions, and sign-off activities.
• Support validation of cloud-based and data-driven solutions to ensure operational readiness and business acceptance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across testing and validation practices.
• Build strong working relationships across client and delivery teams to support collaborative programme delivery.

Test & Validation Analyst

Cloud Engineer

• Design, build, and support enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Develop scalable and reusable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable delivery practices.
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and governance requirements.
• Support cloud environment provisioning, configuration, and deployment activities across multiple initiatives.
• Work closely with technical SMEs, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure successful integration and operational readiness.
• Contribute to solution documentation, technical standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support testing and transition activities, including operational acceptance and production readiness.
• Participate in cross-functional working groups to improve engineering consistency, automation, and delivery outcomes.
• Maintain awareness of evolving cloud technologies, platform capabilities, and industry best practices.

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Project Manager

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with delivery leads, product owners, and key stakeholders across multiple organisations
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects, overseeing day-to-day management of activities to ensure successful outcomes
• Act as the primary point of contact for coordinating project resources and delivery teams
• Monitor project progress, proactively identifying risks and issues, and implementing effective mitigation strategies
• Provide clear and consistent communication and reporting to stakeholders, including regular updates on timelines, budgets, and deliverables
• Ensure adherence to established project governance frameworks and delivery methodologies
• Participate in cross-functional working groups and forums to support alignment, collaboration, and successful delivery outcomes

Compliance

• Design and maintain clients' security governance structures, risk management frameworks, policy ecosystem, and security awareness strategy.
• Ensure cybersecurity is effectively governed, risk-managed, and communicated across all levels of the organisation through structured frameworks, stakeholder engagement, and compliance oversight.

GRC Lead

Security Engineer

• own and deliver a high-profile cyber security transformation programme
• operate at the intersection of technology, risk, and business strategy
• coordinate delivery across IT, Security, Procurement, HR, Legal, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and business teams.

Programme Manager, Cyber Security

Controller

• Serve as the DC focal point for asset operations engineering works, overseeing all asset deliverables, including as building and close out of technical documentation.
• Manage the coordinate the process of asset document reviews.
• Manage and maintain document control activities within Assai and SharePoint-controlled libraries.
• Conduct document compliance and quality checks across Assai and SharePoint systems to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to project standards.
• Maintain responsibility for third-party supplier asset documentation.
• Assign and manage project document and drawing numbering requests.
• Distribute asset documentation to internal teams and third-party stakeholders.
• Manage the process of asset drawing mark-ups.
• Provide support, training, and guidance to users on review workflows and document management processes.
• Oversee the lifecycle management of asset operational documents.
• Act as System Administrator, ensuring system integrity and overseeing process adherence.

Document Controller

Risk

• Governance Framework Design & Implementation
• Design and implement end-to-end governance frameworks tailored to programme scale and complexity, including:
• Unified Portfolio & Delivery Frameworks
• Stage Gate Models (lifecycle governance)
• Hybrid delivery frameworks (Waterfall / Agile integration)
• Define governance structures, including:
• Decision forums (SteerCo, Design Authority, Programme Boards)
• Roles, accountabilities, and escalation pathways
• Ensure frameworks are:
• Scalable
• Repeatable
• Aligned to industry best practices (e.g. MSP, ISO 21502)
• Governance Integration with Operating & Decision Models
• Ensure governance is fully aligned to the organisation’s:
• Business operating model
• Decision-making hierarchy and authority structures
• Define clear decision rights, thresholds, and approval mechanisms
• Enable effective flow of information from delivery teams to executive stakeholders
• Align governance with:
• Financial controls
• Commercial structures
• Risk and compliance frameworks
• Business Process Modelling & Optimisation
• Develop process models (BPMN or equivalent) to define and communicate governance workflows, including:
• Stage gate processes
• Change control lifecycle
• Risk and issue escalation
• Identify inefficiencies and drive process simplification and optimisation
• Ensure governance processes are:
• Clearly documented
• Understood by stakeholders
• Consistently applied across the programme
• Proportionate Governance Design
• Design governance that is fit-for-purpose and proportionate to:
• Programme size and complexity
• Risk profile
• Delivery maturity
• Avoid excessive bureaucracy by:
• Streamlining approval processes
• Reducing duplication of reporting
• Focusing on decision-enabling artefacts
• Tailor governance approaches for:
• Agile vs Waterfall workstreams
• Early discovery vs delivery phases
• Governance Operation & Continuous Improvement
• Establish and run governance cadence and reporting cycles
• Provide oversight and quality assurance of:
• Governance artefacts
• Decision packs
• Programme reporting
• Monitor effectiveness of governance and implement continuous improvements
• Introduce and maintain:
• Standard templates
• Governance playbooks
• Ways of Working guidance
• Stakeholder Engagement & Enablement
• Engage senior stakeholders to ensure buy-in and adherence to governance
• Act as a trusted advisor to Programme Director and leadership teams
• Facilitate governance forums and decision-making sessions
• Provide guidance and coaching to:
• Project Managers
• PMO teams
• Business stakeholders

Programme Project Governance Lead

Engineer

• Develop, review and maintain engineering standards for substation control systems, including RTUs, telecontrol and automation equipment
• Produce detailed technical specifications for control system components and ensure alignment with operational and regulatory requirements
• Design and implement structured test plans to validate equipment against defined specifications
• Carry out technical evaluation and assurance of vendor solutions prior to approval for deployment
• Develop, configure and test standardised RTU builds and control system configurations to ensure repeatability across sites
• Produce engineering schematics, control cabinet layouts and wiring diagrams using AutoCAD
• Support the development of standardised substation control system designs and architectures
• Work with industrial communication protocols including DNP3 (essential) and IEC 61850 (desirable)
• Contribute to the implementation of secure-by-design principles within OT environments, including segmentation, access control and system hardening
• Collaborate with engineering, cyber security and operational teams to ensure solutions are practical, deployable and aligned to standards
• Support the wider digitisation of control systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and future-ready

OT Engineer – Controls & Automation

• Develop and maintain an integrated view of change activity across the portfolio, highlighting people impacts, dependencies, and risks.
• Support planning activities to ensure effective sequencing of change initiatives to avoid stakeholder overload or change saturation.
• Work collaboratively with Change Managers to capture and track change impacts across programmes.
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards and reports to support governance and assurance processes.
• Provide clear, actionable insights to senior leaders to inform decision-making.
• Translate complex datasets into engaging visual outputs that clearly communicate key messages and risks.
• Continuously improve reporting approaches to enhance visibility of change performance and impact.
• Use tools such as Excel and Power BI to create high-quality visualisations and reporting outputs.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across reporting outputs.
• Support the implementation and ongoing operation of change governance processes.
• Ensure alignment of reporting with established change frameworks, standards, and templates.
• Work closely with Lead Change Managers, Change Managers, and Programme teams to gather relevant inputs and validate outputs.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, providing clear and confident communication of insights and recommendations.

Digital Change Planning & Controls Analyst

• Support the delivery of high-quality, impactful communications across a major Digital transformation programme.
• Assist the Digital Communication and Engagement Manager in creating engaging, insight-led content that showcases the value and benefits delivered by Digital teams.
• Develop engaging, audience-focused content to communicate the value of digital transformation initiatives across Transmission.
• Produce written materials including articles, feature stories, and case studies highlighting benefits delivered to teams and individuals.
• Create visually compelling content including infographics and supporting imagery to enhance engagement.
• Support the end-to-end creation of video content, including (storyboarding and scripting, filming and editing, publishing across internal channels)
• Ensure content is aligned to key messaging and stakeholder needs.
• Translate complex technical and digital concepts into clear, engaging communications suitable for non-technical audiences.
• Proactively identify and develop stories that demonstrate the impact and value of digital change initiatives.
• Work closely with delivery teams and stakeholders to gather insights and success stories.

Communication & Engagement Analyst

Learning and Development

• Support the design and delivery of change plans, journeys, and engagement activities relative to Copilot adoption
• Deliver change campaigns and experiences to support the adoption and embedding of initiatives delivered by wider teams (e.g. Group IT / OT)
• Contribute to the successful rollout of change at a project level, ensuring alignment with wider programme objectives
• Analyse stakeholder groups to identify impacts, risks, and adoption challenges
• Assist in the creation of communication materials, training content, and engagement collateral
• Track and report on change metrics such as readiness, engagement, and adoption
• Maintain change documentation, tools, and templates in line with agreed frameworks
• Apply recognised change management approaches, with a preference for certified practitioners (e.g. Prosci, CCMP)