Maximo Technical Lead

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

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. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created contract opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Maximo Technical Lead.

As Maximo Technical Lead, you will play a key role in supporting our clients' asset management systems during a major upgrade from Maximo 7.6 to Maximo MAS8.

This is a long term contract engagement within an Enterprise environment and can be based remotely, hybrid or on-site if preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Lead 2nd line support for Maximo 7.6 environment during deployment of MAS8 .
• Lead technical prioritisation and delivery (alongside our Agile PEL team) of further Maximo 7.6 development/configuration.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance in the implementation and support of Maximo systems
• Lead a team of DevOps resources to deliver technical activities and resolve any issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery
• Identify opportunities for improvement and drive continuous enhancement of the Maximo systems
• Engage with third-party support suppliers for systems such as Maximo
• Ensure compliance with ITIL processes and Agile/DevOps practices

Requirements

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career.  We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area.  If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

Prior experience as a Technical Lead in Maximo 7.6 implementation and support projects.

• Thorough understanding of Maximo system functionalities, configuration and releases.
• Strong knowledge of application delivery design and packaging.
• Experience in engaging with third-party vendors for system support.
• Proficiency in Agile and DevOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Benefits

This is a long term contract engagement within an Enterprise environment and can be based remotely, hybrid or on-site if preferred.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  All applicants receive equal consideration for employment 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.

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.