IT Cutover Coordinator

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.

• Own and maintain the master integrated migration and cutover schedule.
• Coordinate migration activities, dependencies, milestones, and resource planning across all workstreams.
• Consolidate and manage cutover runbooks and execution plans.
• Lead cutover readiness reviews, checkpoints, and governance activities.
• Manage contingency and rollback planning to minimise operational risk.
• Provide regular reporting, dashboards, and status updates to stakeholders.
• Act as the central control-room coordinator during major migration and cutover events.
• Support the transition from cutover into Early Life Support (ELS) and BAU operations.

Requirements

• Proven experience coordinating complex IT cutovers, migrations, or transition programmes.
• Strong planning and scheduling skills, with experience managing integrated migration and cutover plans.
• Ability to track dependencies, milestones, risks, issues, and resource conflicts across multiple workstreams.
• Experience developing and managing cutover runbooks, contingency plans, and rollback procedures.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate technical teams, business stakeholders, and third-party suppliers.
• Experience facilitating cutover readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and migration governance activities.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills, including dashboard and status reporting for programme leadership.
• Knowledge of application, infrastructure, network, cloud, and OT environments and their interdependencies.
• Ability to perform effectively in high-pressure environments and coordinate major business-critical cutover events.
• Experience within large-scale M&A, integration, separation, or transformation programmes is highly desirable.
• Oil & Gas, Energy, or other operationally critical industry experience preferred.

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.