Digital Workplace Consultant
Posted 12 Oct 2026
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Contract
- Full-time
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CertificationsMS 102, SC-300, MS-721, MS-700, MS-900, SC-200, SC-401, AZ-900
At Sword, we help power, secure and transform the organisations that keep the UK running. Supporting customers across Critical National Infrastructure, energy, public sector and enterprise markets, we combine deep industry expertise with leading technology services spanning managed services, cyber security, cloud, data, AI and digital transformation.
Join Sword and you'll be part of a team solving complex challenges, delivering real-world impact and working alongside talented colleagues who care deeply about quality, collaboration and customer success.
About the Role:
As a Digital Workplace Consultant, you will work with our customers to design, deliver and optimise modern workplace solutions built around Microsoft 365.
This is a hands-on consulting and delivery role, combining customer engagement, technical solution design and implementation. You will work with customers from initial discovery and assessment through to solution design, migration, implementation and optimisation, helping them create secure, effective and scalable digital workplace environments.
Working across Microsoft 365, identity, collaboration, security and compliance, you will translate business requirements into practical technical solutions while ensuring security, governance and user experience are considered throughout.
You will also contribute to customer workshops, technical proposals and pre-sales activity, working alongside our wider Cloud & Cyber teams to develop high-quality solutions and strengthen Sword's Digital Workplace capability.
As a Digital Workplace Consultant, you will:
- Deliver Digital Workplace consulting engagements including assessments, maturity reviews, health checks and optimisation activities.
- Lead and facilitate customer discovery sessions and workshops to understand business requirements, challenges, desired outcomes and potential use cases.
- Develop target-state architectures, technical roadmaps and implementation plans for Microsoft 365 environments.
- Design and deliver Microsoft 365 solutions aligned to customer requirements across security, compliance, collaboration and user experience.
- Lead or contribute to Microsoft 365 migration and transformation programmes, including tenant-to-tenant and on-premises to Microsoft 365 migrations.
- Design and implement solutions across Microsoft 365 workloads including Exchange Online, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and OneDrive.
- Design and implement identity and access solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, including Conditional Access, authentication and identity governance.
- Embed security, identity and compliance principles into Digital Workplace solutions, including Microsoft Zero Trust approaches.