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Operational Technology Security Consultant

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational 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. We are looking for a highly skilled, highly motivated Operational Technology Security Consultant to help grow our Security practice, with a focus on Operational Technology (OT) environments. You will be seen as a trusted advisor and help our customers secure their OT environments, protect critical infrastructure, and mitigate security risks. The role will require the Operational Technology Security Consultant to conduct consultancy and oversee project assignments in the field of Operational Technology (OT) cyber security to help our customers mitigate the risks of vulnerabilities in their OT environment. You should have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to interact with others from the executive level to highly technical analysts in structured and unstructured situations. Here’s what the role looks like: The Senior Consultant is a pivotal role within the Operational Technology (OT) team covering aspects of staff management and fulfilling the role of Primary customer contacts and overall responsibility for all OT project work. Manage and co-ordinate consultancy and assist with the project management assignments in the field of OT Security to help customers mitigate the risks of vulnerabilities in this environment. This candidate should have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to manage and interact with others from the executive level down to highly technical analysts in structured and unstructured situations. Requirements Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role: Primary customer contacts for OT projects Third party suppliers – manage sub-contracted work on OT projects Manage and design site surveys to help customers identify the systems in their OT environment Manage system and network security compliance assessments to assess vulnerabilities in OT environments Facilitate risk assessments to assess and mitigate the identified vulnerabilities in OT environments Develop OT policies and procedures to help customers reduce the risk of a security breach at an installation and sustain OT security Manage audits and gap analysis to assess customer compliance against policies and procedures to ensure on going protection against security incidents Remediation of OT to close gaps and ensure compliance with policies and standards Provide general OT security advice to assist customers addressing OT security issues and ensure safe, continuous production operations Resolve customer issues Line Management of OT Consultants and Engineers Staff management and development Working with Project Manager to ensure Management of project budget and timescales University Degree qualified GICSP Qualified Extensive experience working within the OT Security domain; either in a consultant capacity or as part of an organisation internal OT function Specialty in one or more of the following OT domains: Network Architecture, Inventory Gathering, Situational Review, Endpoint Protection, Policy; Governance, Standards, Education & Awareness Experience working in a consultant capacity or within an organisation OT environment to establish roadmaps to improve their current security posture and developing the functional/operational processes and procedures to support their mission Experience developing content-rich final reports and associated deliverables with results of subject matter expert analysis and improvement recommendations Experience presenting the results of applied analysis to client stakeholders to include senior or executive leadership Experience with cyber security processes, tools, and technologies and extensive knowledge of best practices regarding their implementation Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to successfully accomplish client-facing interactions Position may require degree of travel; mostly in the United Kingdom, Europe and Middle East GICSP Qualified Desired Skills: Prior experience working as a Consultant in the OT environments across a variety of verticals to include Energy, Oil and Gas, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and/or related industries Prior experience as a consultant leading an assessment or evaluation of an OT environment to include execution of the assessment, analysis of results, and formulation of a final report for dissemination to key stakeholders Prior experience evaluating and assessing large organisations from the standpoint of OT Cyber security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, GCIA, GCIH, GCFE etc. Knowledge of industry best practices and standards to include but not limited to the following; IEC 62443, NERC CIP, NESA, OG86 Considered an authority within the OT environments. Benefits 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.

Aberdeen, UK

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MS Fabric Architect

Job Title: MS Fabric Architect Location: Edinburgh, UK(Hybrid) FTC Contract of 6 months Job Description: The job description for MS Fabric Architect includes the following qualifications and responsibilities: • Experience: Proficient in SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and specializing in Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, and PySpark. Adept at designing and implementing scalable data solutions using modern cloud architectures. • Technical skills: Developed reusable and dynamic ADF/Fabric pipelines, enhancing efficiency in data transformation and ingestion. • Communication skills: Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with clients' architects, other technical decision makers, and offshore technical teams • Professional qualifications: A minimum Bachelor's Degree in Science or Engineering • Responsibilities: Working closely with client architects to work on MS Fabric solutions, architecture, design documents and code review to provide quality assurance with expert feedback quoting previous real-world experience/POVs. Has hands on experience with: o Fabric Landing Zone Setup o Fabric Tenant Configuration o Security Group Assignment o Entra ID Setup o VNET and Data Gateway Installations o DNS Integration o Workspace Creation and Configuration o Domain Creation o Purview Governance Fabric Integration Duties and Responsibilities: Review and assure key architecture design documents, decisions, vision and solution architecture • Challenges proposed solutions, architecture patterns and ensure best practices are followed and best of breed solutions are designed/architected/implemented • Define all Functional and Non-Functional Requirements - Playing the requirements back to the customer to ensure designs are produced in alignment with customer objectives. • Participate in all Infra workshops (end to end) and provide architecture services • Ability to stakeholder manage other senior architects, suppliers and product vendors and understand the drivers, biases and push for best of breed solutions for the customer. Technical Skills Required: Large scale infrastructure implementation using Microsoft Fabric. Experience Required: • 15+ years of proven experience in the Software industry • 3+ years of proven experience working as a MS Fabric solution architect (end to end) • SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and currently specializing in Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, and PySpark. on Azure cloud • Creation of architecture and design documents for Fabric -Design will cover all Microsoft Fabric Design areas including Governance, Security, Administration, DevOps, Usability, Performance and scale and Billing and cost management. Workspace and capacity configuration will also be defined as part of the design. • Creation of architecture and design documents for Purview Governance - Non-functional Design for Purview Governance Capacity Deployment • Design Review & Sign-off - design playback, quality assurance, amendments and changes to ensure full alignment with customer requirements. • Must have handled end-to-end architectural responsibilities from solution design, data migration planning, capacity planning, application security, process orchestration, application and data integration etc. • Architecting mission critical and high performing systems • Ability to review code • Creation of Fabric Landing Zone Infrastructure as Code - Fabric Landing Zone templates to be created with Terraform. • Creation of Purview Governance Infrastructure as Code - Purview Governance Landing Zone templates to be created with Terraform. • Fabric Tenant Settings Configuration - Tenant setting configuration to be built out and configured via the API where possible. • Workspace Templates - Creation of Terraform templates for templated Workspace provision, including defined Fabric Items and an Extract Transform Load Framework. • Internal QA & Testing • Fabric Landing Zone Deployment – Provision of target Microsoft Fabric Landing Zones including Fabric Capacities. • Fabric Access Control - Entra ID Security Group Creation, Entra ID Conditional Access Policy Creation. • Fabric Tenant Settings - Fabric Tenant Settings are configured per the design, with Security Groups associated. • Logging & SIEM Integrations - Logging integrations for both Microsoft Sentinel and ServiceNow. • Fabric Networking – Outbound Networking: • 1. Deployment of Self Hosted Integration Runtimes • 2. VNET Data Gateways • 3. Managed Private Endpoints Client Networking:  1. Private Link  2. Private DNS Other:  1. Support for broader networking requirements  2. Enhancements • Purview Governance Landing Zone Deployment • QA • Testing • Well versed with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and similar project delivery methodologies.

Edinburgh, UK

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Solution Architect

Required Skills: • Strong generalist experience in a wide range of the following areas: • Awareness of Enterprise architecture frameworks and patterns • Technical architectural design of complex solutions • Communication at all levels including at an executive level with partners and senior management • Writing and collaborating in the production of architecture design artefacts • Ability to work as part of a multi-skilled team, which on occasions could involve a complex matrix management process. Strong specialist experience across several of the following areas: • Cloud services (SaaS, PaaS) (AWS preferred) • Enterprise integration patterns and tooling (MuleSoft preferred) • Enterprise data, analytics and information management, ETL knowledge • High volume transactional online systems • Security and identify management • Service and micro-service architecture • Knowledge of continuous integration tools and techniques • Design and/or development of applications using: - AWS native services - Oracle Forms, Pl/SQL, Oracle Reports - Design of data stores using SQL and/or NoSQL database

Glasgow, UK

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Cyber Security Analyst

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational 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. About the role: The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for cyber assurance over the IS environment and ensuring that information assets and associated technologies, applications, systems, infrastructure, and processes are adequately protected The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting cybersecurity risk to information assets and reporting associated risks The Cyber Security Analyst , working together with the Operational Security team, understands and articulates the impact of cyber security risks and threats to (digital) business and communicates this to Senior Manager- Global Cyber Operations or delegate The Cyber Security Analyst supports the Global Cyber Operations team in carrying out appropriate second-line assurance activities related to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as the safety, privacy and recovery of information owned or processed by the business in compliance with regulatory requirements The role works with appropriate teams and 3rd party vendors to ensure the third party related cyber risks are identified and assessed appropriately Roles and Responsibilities: Works with Project Team, Operations and IS Security team to support IS in the delivery of secure, reliable, and safe IS operations to the business Work across vendors, project teams and wider IS team to define IS Security requirements for systems and solutions Research and provide security solutions for complex application and systems integrations Provides support on the full life cycle of design, development and operation of security tools and services Builds successful peer relationships with other IS and business functions Follows the formal governance mechanism to establish and monitor effective controls for the processes and functions performed by the IS Security team Supports IS Security achieve regulatory and statutory compliance requirements Complete cyber risk assessments, including third party suppliers. Apply threat modelling principles to complex system and solution designs to identify security risks and appropriate mitigations. Supports, monitors and recommends improvements to cyber incident management process Provides input and support to operational projects related to cyber security Requirements Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role: Experience of working in an organisation distributed across different geographies and time zones, with the ability to communicate the IS security goals (preferred) Excellent analytical, problem solving and execution skills (essential) Strong cyber security-specific experience, support by relevant industry certifications (e.g. CySA+, Security+) and risk management knowledge (essential) Knowledge and experience working across a diverse range of cyber security tools, including SIEM technologies, EDR, NIDS etc. (essential) Self-motivated with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals (essential) Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to technical and non-technical audiences (essential) Cyber Security KPI monitoring and delivery (preferred) Experience engaging 3rd party security specialists to provide additional assurance. (preferred) Understanding of assessing data security and governance requirements and identifying suitable controls. (essential) Experience of delivering cloud focused security solutions with a solid understanding of modern cyber threats and threat modelling techniques (preferred) Good understanding of security frameworks (NIST CSF, Mitre ATT & CK) (essential) Benefits 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.

Aberdeen, UK

Negotiable Salary

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Architect

• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design. • Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams. • Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented. • Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable. • Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services. • Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy. • Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service. • Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder's reactions with flexibility. • Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it. • Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles Essential Skills:- • needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter-relationships, e.g.: Web applications, Java & Oracle. • Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products. • Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in – Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrete manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions. • Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, Message Brokers and token based security. • Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment. • A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability. • Working knowledge of database concepts, Oracle, MongoDB & DynamoDB • Enterprise Architecture knowledge.

Glasgow, UK

Negotiable Salary

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Oracle Lead

Lead Oracle Developer with strong experience in PL/SQL and Oracle Database 19C to lead analysis, design, and development efforts. This role will involve direct collaboration with architects, mentoring of junior developers, and driving the technical direction of database projects. o Lead the design and analysis of database solutions by working closely with solution architects and business stakeholders. o Create and maintain Technical Design Documents (TDDs), ensuring clarity and adherence to project specifications. o Develop, review, and optimize complex Oracle PL/SQL code including Procedures, Packages, Functions, and Views. o Lead the database development on Oracle 19C, implementing best practices in database design and optimization. o Mentor and guide junior and mid-level developers through the development process, offering technical support and expertise. o Lead code reviews and ensure that development practices follow industry standards and project requirements. o Coordinate with architects, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality solutions. o Work closely with project managers and business analysts to ensure the development aligns with business requirements and timelines. o Manage the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) independently, from design and development to testing and deployment. o Act as the main point of contact for the development team, ensuring open communication channels with all stakeholders. o Provide technical expertise during project planning sessions and collaborate on design decisions.

Glasgow, UK

Negotiable Salary

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Application Architect

• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design. • Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams. • Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented. • Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable. • Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services. • Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy. • Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service. • Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder's reactions with flexibility. • Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it. • Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles • Mentor team of varied experience levels • Certification – preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional or similar Essential Skills: • SME & Expertise in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem & Cloud, Hybrid, varied Programming Languages, Infrastructure(DR), Security, CI/CD, Scalability , Resilience and Performance • Expertise in Relational/Oracle, NoSQL Database concepts • Experience in Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Toad & DW DBA knowledge, gap analysis, performance analysis and proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations in current market • Strong Architectural & hands-on experience in Oracle, MongoDB & DynamoDB • Ability to evaluate, run POC and suggest to Business & Tech stakeholders of products fit for purpose addressing the performance & other bottlenecks in BAU system • Strong background in Integration technologies and platforms such as Mulesoft • Expertise in Integration patterns involving files(using FTP, SFTP, MoveIT), MQ, CDC, Message Bus, Hub & Spoke, Pub/Sub • Experience in implementation of Security standards for Data in Transit & Rest such as TLS / SSL, Data Encryption • Knowledge in MQ & AMQ concepts such as RabbitMQ & Oracle MQ • Expertise Knowledge in Data Management workflow & integration such as Data Lake, ETL , Data Ingestion, Sharding, Data Stream, Data Catalogue, Data Cleansing, Data Analytics, Batch, Scheduling • Implementation knowledge on principles such as ACID, SOLID, OWASP • Knowledge on UK GDPR, PII, PCI-DSS data standards • Implementation of designs related to Batch processing patterns involving Talend, Databricks, Snowflake or similar • Experience of running GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing, Validations, Integration, Data Disposition, Auditing & Reporting • Ability to treat Data as an Asset and Architect & provide Solutions aligned to it • Strong working knowledge in Java 8+ with Clean Architecture, Mockito, Java Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Camel • needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter-relationships, e.g.: Web applications, Java & Oracle. • Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products. • Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in – Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrets manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions. • Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, REST, Message Brokers and token-based security. • Expertise in Auth & Auth principles & tools such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth, JWT, OKTA, AWS Cognito, Hashicorp Vault • Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment • A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability abiding SLA • Experience in creating & guiding in Architecture Artefacts such as Tech/Arch Roadmap/Strategy, High Level Design, LLD, Estimation, Product Evaluation Matrix, Gap Analysis, Performance Matrix • Enterprise Architecture knowledge and practical exposure to TOGAF or Zachman

Glasgow, UK

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