Senior Data Migration Specialist - Capco

Senior Data Migration Specialist

Scope of services:

As a Senior Data Migration Specialist, you will:

Coordinate the development and delivery of the end-to-end data migration strategy.

Define migration approaches, data quality standards, validation criteria, and reconciliation processes.

Coordinate the design and implementation of qualitative and financial reconciliation tooling.

Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, engineering teams, testing teams, and third-party vendors to ensure successful migration outcomes.

Facilitate migration planning activities, including migration waves, cutover planning, rollback scenarios, and readiness assessments.

Identify migration risks, dependencies, assumptions, and issues throughout the programme lifecycle.

Communicate delivery progress, key risks, and dependencies to programme stakeholders.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of migration methodologies, governance practices, and delivery standards.

Required Experience

Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data migration initiatives within financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Strong technical knowledge of:

data migration methodologies,

ETL processes,

data quality management,

reconciliation approaches,

migration tooling and validation techniques.

Experience working with SaaS platforms and complex system migrations.

Ability to deliver migration activities in environments with limited documentation and evolving business knowledge.

Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organisational abilities.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Project Challenges

The programme involves migrating from a legacy SaaS platform with limited internal knowledge and documentation. Success will depend on establishing a robust migration strategy, building effective reconciliation capabilities, and coordinating multiple stakeholders across business, technology, and vendor teams.

Initial Deliverables

Key deliverables during the initial phase of the engagement include:

Finalising the overall data migration strategy.

Defining reconciliation processes and supporting the preparation of qualitative and financial reconciliation tooling.

Establishing migration governance, validation, and reporting processes.

Coordinating the preparation of cutover and rollback plans together with business, technology teams, and the solution vendor.

Supporting the programme's readiness for migration rehearsals and the production cutover.