Senior Data Migration Specialist

Capco is hiring a Senior Data Migration Specialist for a large-scale transformation programme in the financial services sector. The project involves migrating data from a legacy SaaS platform to a new strategic solution, requiring technical expertise and coordination across business and technology teams.

• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data migration initiatives within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• 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.

• 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.
• Facilitate migration planning activities including migration waves, cutover planning, rollback scenarios, and readiness assessments.
• Identify migration risks, dependencies, assumptions, and issues.
• Communicate delivery progress, key risks, and dependencies to programme stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of migration methodologies, governance practices, and delivery standards.

Initial Deliverables:

• Finalising the overall data migration strategy.
• Defining reconciliation processes and supporting preparation of qualitative and financial reconciliation tooling.
• Establishing migration governance, validation, and reporting processes.
• Coordinating preparation of cutover and rollback plans with business, technology teams, and solution vendor.
• Supporting readiness for migration rehearsals and production cutover.

The recruitment process consists of an HR interview, technical interview with Capco Engineering team, client interview, and final feedback and offer. Candidates should verify recruiter identities due to known recruitment scams and official communication will only come from Capco recruiters.