Data Migration and Data Transition Team Lead
- London
- £181,986 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define and lead the end-to-end strategy for data migration and transition activities
- Own development of data migration tooling, monitoring, and reconciliation frameworks
- Lead on dress rehearsals, dry runs, cutover execution, and post-go-live validation
- Coordinate business data readiness, transformation mapping, and stakeholder approvals
- Act as SME and deputy to the Head of Data Migration & Transition for critical programmes
- Collaborate with IT and business units to ensure clean, auditable, and fit-for-purpose data
- Build internal data migration capability and mentor junior colleagues
- Support production go-lives and respond to any post-migration data issues or risks
- Proven leadership of complex data migration and transition projects in financial services
- Hands-on knowledge of data transformation, cleansing, and cutover practices
- Experience with ETL tools (e.g., Alteryx), data mapping, and SQL querying
- Strong understanding of client, product, and reference data in regulated environments
- Excellent communication skills and experience engaging business and technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with full migration lifecycle: from planning through go-live and post-implementation
- Experience building a data migration function or operating model from scratch
- Understanding of KYC and regulatory data requirements
- Track record of delivering customer data migration cutovers
- Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks
- RAID management and benefits realisation tracking