Consultant/Senior BA

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’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst / Consultant to act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders—driving value, shaping strategy, and ensuring technology delivers measurable impact across complex projects and programmes.

In this pivotal role, you’ll serve as the primary bridge between the business and service teams, ensuring objectives are understood, priorities are aligned, and outcomes are delivered efficiently and cost‑effectively. You’ll proactively identify gaps, inefficiencies, opportunities, and risks, using insight and influence to guide decisions and optimise end‑to‑end processes.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping the business unit strategy across Data, Information, Technology, IT services, and other critical disciplines—ensuring roadmaps and solutions are aligned to long‑term organisational goals.

• Serve as a trusted partner to stakeholders, driving value by leveraging technology, optimising processes, and ensuring cost effective, high quality service delivery across complex projects and programmes.
• Lead regular business reviews, value discussions, and roadmap sessions
• Lead end to end requirements gathering, discovery, and analytical activities for complex initiatives and prepare BU specific strategy plans aligning to organisational drivers
• Participate to budgeting, demand planning and reporting cycles
• Take ownership of the demand planning lifecycle, translating business needs into prioritised, well defined IT/OT initiatives that support strategic goals
• Lead the design of a single Digital Strategy that aligns with BU specific objectives, digital value frameworks, tech outcomes and organisational KPIs
• Mapping digital value streams showcasing alignment to business processes including creation of digital initiative inventory
• Lead a strategic alignment scorecard for each digital initiative (value, cost, risk, effort, priority)

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Business Relationship Manager, Senior Business Analyst or Senior Product Owner

• Strong background in change management, digital strategy development, portfolio strategy
• Previous experience working within enterprise architecture and IT/OT integration projects
• Previous experience working within Energy, Asset Management or Industrial Digital would be beneficial
• Evidenced experience in value stream mapping, hosting discovery workshops, stakeholder management and roadmap development
• Ability to translate business challenges into structured technology recommendations
• Customer centric mindset with a drive for improving service and operations.
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, roadmapping, and strategic planning.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and balance tactical and strategic needs.

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, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…. 

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.