Data Migration Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement data migration strategies, including Phased and Big Bang migration approaches.
• Conduct comprehensive data profiling, cleansing, transformation, enrichment, and validation activities.
• Develop detailed source-to-target data mapping rules and transformation logic.
• Analyze legacy data structures and identify data quality issues, gaps, and inconsistencies.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute multiple data migration cycles, including mock runs and final cutover.
• Perform data reconciliation between source and target systems to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Monitor migration results and investigate data discrepancies or exceptions.
• Ensure migrated data meets required integrity, completeness, quality, security, and audit standards.
• Prepare and maintain migration documentation, execution reports, validation results, and reconciliation logs.
• Collaborate closely with business users, technology teams, data teams, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Support UAT, defect resolution, production migration, and post-migration validation.
• Ensure migration activities comply with established SDLC, Agile, governance, risk, and audit requirements.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in data migration, data management, data transformation, or related technology roles.
• Strong experience in banking or financial services, preferably involving core banking or capital markets platforms.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of Trade360, FLEXCUBE, Murex, and ACBS is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of data profiling, data cleansing, data mapping, transformation, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience managing large-scale or complex legacy-to-target system migrations.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with business, technology, data, and external vendor teams.

Key Deliverables

• Data Migration Strategy & Approach
• Data Mapping / Source-to-Target Mapping Documents
• Data Profiling & Data Quality Reports
• Migration Execution Plans and Reports
• Data Reconciliation Reports
• Validation and Exception Logs
• Migration Sign-off Documentation
• Post-Migration Validation Reports

Core Competencies

• Data Migration & Transformation
• Data Quality & Governance
• Banking Domain Knowledge
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Mapping & Reconciliation
• SDLC / Agile
• Risk, Controls & Audit Compliance
• Problem Solving & Analytical Skills
• Project Delivery & Coordination