Data Migration Lead

Saint Elizabeth; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 96,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Hybrid work

Tuition support

Career pathways

Job summary

SE Health is seeking an experienced Data Migration Lead to oversee end-to-end migration of operational, clinical, financial, scheduling, payroll, and client data to AlayaCare as part of Reimagining Care at Home (RCH).

You will develop and execute the migration strategy, govern data quality, and manage multi-wave migrations with vendors and internal teams to ensure readiness and continuity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering large-scale data migration programs.
• 5+ years in Data Migration Lead, Data Conversion Lead, or Migration PM roles.
• Experience leading migrations for enterprise SaaS or healthcare platforms.
• Experience migrating data between complex operational systems.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, quality, mapping, reconciliation, and cutover planning.
• Experience managing vendor/partner relationships.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain migration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan.
• Establish governance, decision processes, escalation, and reporting.
• Define objectives, success criteria, acceptance criteria, and quality thresholds.
• Coordinate data discovery, cleansing, archival, and retention requirements.
• Lead validation, reconciliation, and sign-off for data quality and readiness.
• Coordinate multiple migration waves across vendors and internal teams.
• Present progress, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

Skills

Data migration leadership

Data governance

Data mapping

Transformation leadership

Vendor management

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare data

Program delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

AlayaCare

Procura

Job description

Join us in re-imagining health care with the largest social enterprise in Canada. SE Health is leading a multi-year enterprise transformation project that leverages human-centered design to be at the forefront of innovation within the healthcare sector. As a leader in home care, we are expanding and enhancing our capabilities to provide personalized experiences using new platforms and cloud-native architectures, ensuring privacy and security by design. Our transformation is grounded in guiding principles drive to ensure that we prioritize team decisions, long-term planning, process standardization, data-driven insights, and balanced user adoption. If you are driven by the desire to have an impact, change the world of health care and shape the future, we invite you to be part of our journey.

Job Summary

SE Health is seeking an experienced Data Migration Lead to oversee the end-to-end migration of operational, clinical, financial, scheduling, payroll, and customer data from legacy source systems to AlayaCare as part of the Reimagining Care at Home (RCH) transformation program.

The Data Migration Lead will be accountable for developing and executing the migration strategy, governing data quality activities, coordinating business and technical stakeholders, and ensuring successful delivery of multiple migration waves leading to production cutover. This role requires a combination of project management, data governance, healthcare data governance knowledge, and hands-on migration leadership experience.

The successful candidate will work closely with business leaders, subject matter experts, vendor, technical teams, and implementation partners to ensure migration activities support operational readiness and business continuity.

Duration: 18-month contract

Key Responsibilities

Migration Strategy and Planning

• Develop and maintain the overall migration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan in collaboration with the RCH senior project manager as part of the broader program plan.
• Establish migration governance, decision-making processes, escalation paths, and reporting mechanisms.
• Define migration objectives, success criteria, acceptance criteria, and quality thresholds.
• Develop detailed migration schedules aligned to overall program milestones and site deployment waves.
• Identify migration risks, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation plans.
  

Data Discovery and Assessment

• Lead data discovery activities across source systems.
• Assess source data quality, completeness, consistency, and readiness for migration.
• Identify data cleansing, remediation, archival, and retention requirements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define migration scope and priorities.
• Document source-to-target mappings and transformation rules.

Data Governance and Quality

• Establish data quality standards and migration controls.
• Lead data validation and reconciliation activities.
• Define and track migration quality metrics and KPIs.
• Coordinate business sign-off processes for data quality and migration readiness.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, privacy requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Migration Execution

• Coordinate development of migration extracts, transformation logic, loading processes, and migration tooling.
• Manage multiple migration cycles, including mock conversions, test migrations, dress rehearsals, and production migrations.
• Oversee issue identification, triage, resolution, and defect management.
• Ensure migration activities are completed according to schedule and quality standards.
• Coordinate migration activities across implementation vendors, internal teams, and business stakeholders.

Business Engagement

• Act as the primary point of accountability for migration activities across the program.
• Facilitate workshops with operational, clinical, finance, HR, payroll, scheduling, and reporting teams.
• Translate business requirements into migration plans and technical deliverables.
• Prepare executive updates, governance materials, decision papers, and status reports.
• Present migration progress, risks, and recommendations to program leadership.

Testing and Cutover Readiness

• Develop migration testing and validation strategies.
• Coordinate user validation sessions and business acceptance activities.
• Establish reconciliation processes to verify migration completeness and accuracy.
• Lead migration readiness reviews and cutover planning activities.
• Support go-live and hypercare activities during deployment waves.

Vendor and Partner Management

• Coordinate migration-related activities with AlayaCare and implementation partners.
• Review vendor deliverables and ensure alignment with migration requirements.
• Manage migration-related dependencies across vendors and workstreams.
• Escalate issues and risks impacting delivery, quality, or schedule.
  

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise data migration programs.
• 5+ years in a dedicated Data Migration Lead, Data Conversion Lead, or Migration Project Manager role.
• Demonstrated experience leading migrations for enterprise SaaS or healthcare platforms.
• Experience migrating data between complex operational systems.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality management, data mapping and transformation, reconciliation, cutover planning, and program delivery.
• Experience managing vendor and implementation partner relationships.
• Exceptional internal stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex transformation programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Procura migrations.
• Experience with AlayaCare implementations or migrations.
• Experience within healthcare, home care, community care, seniors living, or related sectors.
• Familiarity with clinical, scheduling, workforce management, payroll, billing, CRM, and client-management data.
• Knowledge of healthcare privacy, security, records-retention, and regulatory requirements.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Prosci, CBIP, CDMP, or equivalent certification.

Why join SE Health?

• Competitive Total Rewards: So much more than a paycheque! Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, flexible pay options, car-loan support, housing solutions and exclusive staff perks.
• Flexibility & Belonging: Thrive with hybrid work, flexible scheduling and a supportive, inclusive culture that puts people first.
• Innovative: At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging.
• Purpose & Impact: Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
• Growth That Meets Your Ambition: Access tuition support, training and meaningful career pathways across a growing, future-focused organization.

About SE Health

SE Health is a not-for-profit social enterprise advancing health with heart. With 115+ years of impact, we bring hope, happiness and exceptional care to people and communities across Canada. We lead with empathy, dignity and purpose while building a future where everyone can realize their full health and well-being potential. We’re also an inclusive, supportive workplace offering competitive compensation, strong benefits and real opportunities to grow. We’re All In Together.

Accessibility: If you require accommodations due to illness or disability, please contact Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].

AI and compensation details: We use AI to take notes during our interview. All applications and interviews are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. This role is a new addition. The total target compensation for this position is $96,000 - $119,000. The compensation offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies, taking into consideration internal equity