- Location
- Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom · published · London, England, United Kingdom · Billingham, England, United Kingdom · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Workable
Description
Sword is the trusted partner for critical technology. We deliver the operational resilience and practical innovation that are essential for the most demanding enterprise and critical national infrastructure environments. By modernising legacy systems and securing daily operations, our expert teams help vital organisations lower risk, protect operations, and grow safely.
Join Sword and develop your career as part of a talented, collaborative team that delivers real-world impact and meaningful outcomes for our customers.
About the role:
As a Senior Information Management Consultant, you will provide subject matter expertise across complex engineering and operational environments, helping clients strengthen the way critical information is structured, governed, transferred and maintained.
You will work with engineering, IT, operations and project teams to assess information management needs, shape practical solutions and support delivery across a variety of assignments. These may include EDMS improvements, information migration, business or asset transitions, information handover and the establishment of effective IM processes.
This is a senior, hands-on consulting opportunity combining technical authority, stakeholder engagement and delivery. You will be trusted to identify risks, recommend approaches and help organisations achieve reliable, accessible and well-governed information.
As a Senior Information Management Consultant, you will:
- Act as a trusted Information Management subject matter expert, advising clients and delivery teams on engineering information, EDMS and information governance.
- Assess existing information systems, processes, document repositories and data quality to identify risks, gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Define and implement proportionate IM strategies, standards, procedures and information lifecycle controls.
- Lead or provide specialist oversight of document and engineering information migration, integration, handover and transition activities, as required by the assignment.
- Advise on EDMS and enterprise content management capabilities, configuration, metadata, classification, access and information structures
- Establish approaches to data mapping, validation, reconciliation, traceability and quality assurance where information is transferred or transformed.
- Work collaboratively with engineering, IT, operational and project stakeholders to translate business needs into workable IM solutions.
- Identify information-related dependencies and risks, and recommend practical mitigations to support operational continuity.
- Provide technical input into solution design, delivery planning and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support knowledge transfer and the adoption of sustainable information management practices across client teams.