IT Migration Manager - Applications (contract)

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, dedicated to driving transformational change for our clients. We leverage proven technology, specialist teams, and extensive domain expertise to create robust technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. Our mission is fueled by a passion for technology as a means to solve complex business problems and achieve our clients' objectives.

This role is focused on migration planning, coordination, governance, and delivery management. The successful candidate will not be responsible for hands-on technical migration execution or technical solution delivery.

Proven experience managing complex IT migration or transition activities within large-scale merger, acquisition, separation, or transformation programmes.

• Coordinate assigned migration waves across business applications and associated technology services.
• Manage migration planning, readiness assessments, dependency tracking, and cutover preparation activities.
• Facilitate alignment between application, infrastructure, network, OT, cybersecurity, and business teams.
• Track and report migration progress, risks, issues, and key milestones to programme leadership.
• Coordinate Early Life Support (ELS) activities and ensure successful transition into BAU support teams.
• Drive governance, planning, and communication activities to ensure migration waves are delivered safely and successfully.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of application migration planning, dependency management, cutover coordination, and post-migration support processes.
• Experience coordinating multiple migration waves across applications, infrastructure, networks, offshore assets, and operational technology (OT) environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage migration readiness activities, including planning, risk identification, issue management, stakeholder engagement, and governance reporting.
• Strong knowledge of migration lifecycle methodologies, including wave planning, cutover preparation, Early Life Support (ELS), and transition to Business as Usual (BAU) operations.
• Ability to identify, track, and manage complex interdependencies between business functions, technical teams, third-party suppliers, and project workstreams.
• Experience producing and presenting clear status updates, progress reports, risks, issues, and executive-level communications.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate activities across business, technology, programme, and vendor teams.
• Strong organisational and coordination capabilities, with experience managing multiple priorities within a fast-paced programme environment.
• Understanding of IT service management principles, operational readiness, and service transition processes.
• Experience working within highly regulated, operationally critical environments such as Oil & Gas, Energy, Utilities, or Industrial sectors is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with offshore operations, asset migrations, and Operational Technology (OT) dependencies would be advantageous.
• Relevant project delivery certifications such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, or equivalent are desirable.

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.