Data Consultant - M&A Integration & Data Strategy in Aberdeen

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

To support significant M&A and Integration projects across a range of domain sectors, this ongoing contract role will lead on data strategy, integration, and governance across a range of organisations, ensuring data is onboarded quickly, securely, and consistently.

A senior technical leadership role with a strong consultative dimension, you will work directly with senior stakeholders to turn acquisition strategy into practical data outcomes, while navigating partially known environments, making decisions with incomplete data, and leading through ambiguity.

• Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of data platforms, pipelines, and architectures across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Drive data integration across acquisitions, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and quality.
• Define data governance frameworks covering security, compliance, quality, and lifecycle management.
• Act as the technical authority across data architecture, engineering, analytics, and platforms.
• Assess and rationalise inherited data estates (structured, unstructured, legacy).
• Translate business goals into data integration and analytics roadmaps.
• Establish repeatable data integration patterns for future acquisitions.
• Build and lead data capability across teams and partners.
• Deliver measurable outcomes including improved data availability and faster insights.

Requirements:

• Experience designing and delivering data platforms across Azure, AWS or similar.
• Strong data engineering, transformation and modern data platform experience.
• Experience in regulated sectors with understanding of data governance and compliance.
• Experience supporting M&A or large-scale data integrations.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide direction.
• Experience defining governance frameworks including data quality and lineage.
• Strong consultative approach and stakeholder management.
• Commercial awareness of cost, risk, and business impact.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity.

Benefits:

This opportunity is offered on a contract basis and can operate Outside IR35 or on a PAYE basis. There will also be the option of a permanent staff role for suitably qualified and experienced candidates.

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.