Spotlight: Shivom Consultancy, UK IT Industry Awards 2026 finalist

Original thinking. Impact without boundaries

The most meaningful innovations are not defined by the technology behind them, but by the problems they solve and the difference they make to people and businesses.

That belief drives Shivom Consultancy, an independent UK technology consultancy whose engineering innovations have helped transform complex enterprise environments and critical national digital services.

Founded in 2003, Shivom brings experience across banking, financial services, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, education and government. Combining cloud engineering, cybersecurity, data, AI and enterprise architecture, the company demonstrates that organisational size need not limit the scale of innovation or impact.

Challenging convention, engineering possibilities

Shivom's philosophy is rooted in independent thinking: challenging assumptions, questioning established practices and finding original solutions to complex problems.

Its cloud expertise spans AWS, Microsoft Azure, sovereign and hybrid cloud, cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation and modern data platforms.

Rather than applying predetermined technology solutions, Shivom starts with the business challenge. Whether modernising legacy infrastructure, protecting sensitive information, accelerating software delivery or unlocking fragmented enterprise data, its focus is on making technology simpler, more secure and more effective.

Innovation that delivers real-world impact

For the Home Office, Shivom engineered an innovative serverless AWS platform securely hosting over one billion sensitive records, incorporating Zero Trust architecture and on-demand privilege escalation to eliminate long-lived privileged access. Its original Monitor, Alert and Act (MAA) security patterns introduced near-real-time threat assessment and automated self-protection, enabling critical assets to respond dynamically to emerging threats. Beyond protecting sensitive citizen information, this secure, scalable platform became a foundational enabler for further transformative national digital services.

Building on this foundation, Shivom engineered national-scale GraphQL data-sharing APIs, fundamentally transforming how trusted information is accessed and used for identity verification. Through original architectural thinking, Shivom overcame the challenges of securely extending these capabilities beyond government, enabling participation by over 80 public-sector and 60 private-sector organisations. This breakthrough opened new possibilities for cross-sector identity verification, simplifying access to trusted information while protecting citizens' sensitive data.

These innovations were not isolated achievements but carefully orchestrated pieces of a larger architectural vision. Like a jigsaw puzzle, each capability was deliberately designed to complement and enable the others, bringing together secure cloud infrastructure, intelligent protection and trusted data sharing to unlock transformative services at national scale.

Shivom's metadata-driven Unified Data Layer, built on Microsoft Medallion Architecture, reimagines enterprise data accessibility. By automating ingestion, cleansing and transformation, the platform enables business analysts to define and access trusted information on demand, without coding or lengthy bespoke development cycles.

These innovations address challenges familiar to organisations across industries: protecting customer trust, simplifying operations, accelerating access to information and enabling better decisions.

Enterprise-grade engineering, measurable results

Shivom's engineering expertise has been shaped by high-assurance environments where precision, accuracy, security, resilience and operational continuity are non-negotiable. Its approach embeds automation, continuous validation, proactive monitoring and rigorous assurance throughout the engineering and operational lifecycle.

Supporting mission-critical services demands sophisticated operational capabilities. Through 24/7 monitoring, intelligent alerting, automated escalation and integrated incident management, Shivom achieved an exceptional Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) of just 44 seconds and improved Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) by over 83% reduction in restoration times. These outcomes demonstrate how intelligent automation, engineering precision and proactive operational management can significantly strengthen resilience and minimise service disruption.

Shivom's cloud data engineering expertise received further recognition at Computing's Cloud Excellence Awards 2026, where it was named a joint winner of Cloud Data Management/Engineering Solution of the Year for its contribution to the Department for Work and Pensions' Legacy Migration Service programme.

A finalist for Service Company of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards 2026, Shivom combines the agility and independence of an SME with the engineering rigour and operational maturity required to deliver enterprise-scale transformation.

Shaping the future of intelligent enterprises

Shivom believes the next evolution of cloud will be driven by the convergence of AI, trusted data, intelligent automation, sovereign computing and adaptive cybersecurity.

For organisations, the opportunity extends beyond adopting new technologies. It lies in creating secure, AI-ready foundations that enable faster innovation, operational resilience, better customer experiences and sustainable business value.

Shivom's ambition is to help customers build those foundations while leaving a lasting legacy of innovation, reusable capabilities and engineering excellence.

Because the real measure of technology is not its complexity or sophistication, but how effectively it simplifies lives, protects what matters and creates possibilities that did not exist before.