Sword Group
Energy, Public and Finance Sectors
Cloud&InfrastructurePlatformConsultant
“Cloud & Infrastructure Platform Consultant at Sword Group. Skills: Cloud architecture, Infrastructure platform design and delivery, Mergers and acquisitions integration, Stakeholder management. Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of platforms and infrastructure across private cloud, public cloud, physical infrastructure, and hybrid environments.. Drive platform and infrastructure integration across acquisitions.”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver best in-class technology outcomes.; Standardise estates, reduce complexity, and accelerate onboarding of new businesses.; Ensure consistency across delivery teams.; Deliver measurable outcomes, including reducing time-to-integration for newly acquired businesses through standardised platform and infrastructure onboarding and integration patterns.
Industry & Context.
Comfortable dealing with fragmented or inherited technology estates.; Comfortable working in ambiguity. Able to make progress in evolving environments where not everything is defined upfront.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience designing and delivering platforms across private cloud, public cloud, and physical infrastructure technologies such as Azure, AWS, VMware or equivalent., Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning compute, storage, hosting, virtualisation, and core platform services., Experience in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, insurance, or professional services, with a clear understanding of compliance, risk, and security considerations., Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions or large-scale integration programmes., Proven ability to operate at both a deep technical level and with senior stakeholders., Experience defining governance frameworks across cloud and infrastructure environments, including cost control, operational standards, and security guardrails., Consultative approach., Commercial awareness., Comfortable working in ambiguity.
Nice to Have
Option of a permanent staff role for suitably qualified and experienced candidates.
What You'll Do.
and delivery of platforms and infrastructure across private cloud
physical infrastructure
and hybrid environments.
Drive platform and infrastructure integration across acquisitions.
Define guardrails covering security
and operational resilience within regulated environments.
Act as the technical authority across cloud architecture
and platform services.
and rationalisation of inherited infrastructure environments
and virtualisation platforms.
Engage stakeholders across business and technology functions.
Establish repeatable integration patterns that enable future acquisitions to be onboarded with speed and control.
Build and lead platform and infrastructure capability across internal teams and delivery partners.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work directly with senior stakeholders.; Engage stakeholders across business and technology functions.; Build and lead platform and infrastructure capability across internal teams and delivery partners.
Communication Scope
Able to influence decisions and provide clear direction.; Able to challenge stakeholders constructively and shape outcomes rather than simply deliver requirements.
Process & Methodology
Translate commercial and operational goals into structured integration roadmaps., Establish repeatable integration patterns that enable future acquisitions to be onboarded with speed and control., Deliver measurable outcomes, including reducing time-to-integration for newly acquired businesses through standardised platform and infrastructure onboarding and integration patterns.
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