Data Migration Team Lead
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract to end February 2026 (likely to be extended)
£700 per day (via Umbrella)
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE LEADING DATA MIGRATION PROJECT
cer Financial are working alongside an international bank who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Data Migration Team Lead to work with them on a contract.
The responsibilities of the Data Migration Team Lead will include:
- Deputise for the Head of Data Migration and Data Transfer in programmes and act as workstream lead if applicable.
- Designing, leading, & driving the Data migration and data transfer strategy and full end to end migration lifecycle for various Programmes.
- Tech Authoring of documents that describe the migration/transfer process developed.
- Supporting the Head in ensuring data quality and formal reconciliation frameworks are in place in all Programme including automated reconciliation and exception management.
- Lead on data readiness , data mapping, transformation and cutover tasks.
- Risk and issue management with governance responsibility for data lineage and migration checkpoints i.e. dry run, dress rehearsals , cutover and Implementation.
- Creating an integrated relationship with the IT teams that will help build and test the technology to support the migration approach.
- Work with operations teams to design, develop and approve setup of reference / static data for testing and go-live.
- Working with delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure data quality is at the required level before migration.
- Coordinate with business process stakeholders to ensure that the business context and impacts are considered.
- Ultimately ensuring a successful transfer of assets, liabilities and staff into the banks platforms.
- A lead SME in the Data migration and data transfer team for various Programmes.
- Post-Transfer Validation.
- Tech Authoring of documents.
- Coordinate with business process stakeholders.
- Ultimately support through efficient cutover and implementation a successful transfer of assets, liabilities and staff data.
- Post-Transfer Review.
- Stakeholder Communication.
- Champion the use of modern migration tools and automation to reduce risk and manual effort.
The successful Data Migration Team Lead will have experience in:
- Leading a team and working with data migration / data transfer / data migration function for cutover and implementation.
- Developing new monitoring and reporting.
- Cleansing existing data and creating pipelines to move data to new platforms.
- Identifying, scope and develop migration/transfer solutions.
- Strong data skills and be adept at querying large datasets, as well as familiar with ETL concepts and tools such as Alteryx.
- Experience working in financial services / banking.
- Experience in KYC processes.
- The ability to identify, manage and maintain Risk (RAID) Logs.