Data Lead - Enterprise Data Migration
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Overview
Remote
On-site
Compensation
$70-$75/hour
Job Description
Data Lead Enterprise Data Migration
Experience: 12+ Years Location: San Diego, CA/ Charlotte, NC Job Type: Contract
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Data Lead to own and drive the end-to-end data workstream for a large-scale financial services platform migration program. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in enterprise data migration, reconciliation, data quality, testing, cutover planning, and stakeholder management.
This is a senior, client-facing leadership role requiring close collaboration with Data Engineering, Application Development, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams to ensure successful and controlled migration execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end data migration strategy, planning, and execution across source and target platforms.
- Define migration sequencing, source-to-target mapping, transformation rules, dependencies, cutover, rollback, and recovery strategies.
- Establish data validation, reconciliation, and data quality frameworks to ensure migration accuracy and completeness.
- Partner with QE teams to define migration testing strategies and support SIT, UAT, defect triage, and production validation.
- Lead production migration planning, cutover readiness, deployment activities, and post-production hypercare.
- Drive migration governance, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder sign-offs.
- Lead client workshops and communicate migration strategy, status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate across Data Engineering, Application, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams.
- Lead and provide direction to onsite/offshore data teams and migration SMEs.
- Ensure migration activities align with application releases, environment readiness, and overall program milestones.
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Integration, or Data Migration.
- 5+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale data migration initiatives.
- Strong experience with data migration strategy, source-to-target mapping, transformation, conversion, and reconciliation.
- Strong understanding of Data Warehousing, ETL, SQL, Data Quality, and Data Governance.
- Hands-on experience defining data reconciliation and validation frameworks.
- Experience with migration testing, SIT/UAT, production cutover, rollback, and hypercare.
- Experience with cloud data platforms; AWS experience is preferred.
- Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder management experience.
- Experience leading cross-functional and onsite/offshore teams.
- Strong communication, workshop facilitation, risk management, and program governance skills.
Preferred Experience
- Experience within Wealth Management, Brokerage, Banking, Insurance, or broader Financial Services.
- Experience migrating customer, account, advisor, policy, transaction, or financial data.
- Experience with large-scale platform modernization or legacy-to-cloud migration programs.
- Understanding of feature-flag-enabled migration approaches.
- Exposure to automated migration testing, reconciliation frameworks, or AI-assisted testing is an advantage.
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