Data Consultant – M&A Integration & Data Strategy

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients. 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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

• Personalised Career Development
• Flexible working
• Competitive Salary
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Enhanced family friendly benefits
• Pension scheme
• Access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes