Contract Data Migration Readiness Analyst

Dechra; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Employee Assistance Program

Life Assurance

Enhanced Family Leave

Bonus (discretionary)

Discounted Pet Food

Job summary

Dechra is seeking a Data Preparation Analyst to support enterprise data migration initiatives within the Helix transformation programme. You will analyze legacy data, define migration rules, support data preparation, validate migrated data, and coordinate issue resolution with business and technical teams.

You will work across functions to ensure data accuracy, completeness and sign-off, enabling readiness and trusted decision-making from day one.

Qualifications

• Strong data analysis skills using SQL and/or Excel.
• Experience in defining and executing data validation and reconciliation checks.
• Ability to work confidently with business stakeholders to agree on data rules and outcomes.
• Strong documentation, discipline and attention to detail.
• Experience supporting ERP or other data-related programmes (e.g. SAP S/4HANA).
• Familiarity with data governance concepts and roles (Data Owner, Data Steward).
• Experience working in regulated or controlled environments (e.g. GxP / data integrity).
• Understanding of migration tooling concepts (without needing to build ETL pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Data Profiling & Cleanse for Migration Readiness: analyse legacy data across domains and address quality issues.
• Migration Rule Definition & Mapping Support: contribute to source-to-target mappings and data rules.
• Validation, Reconciliation & Business Sign-off: define checks, prepare evidence packs, obtain sign-offs.
• Documentation & Governance Alignment: maintain structured migration docs and governance traceability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with Data Migration Lead and Governance/SMEs to align on rules and sign-off criteria.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Power BI

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Dechra is seeking a Data Preparation Analyst to support enterprise data migration initiatives within the Helix transformation programme. You will analyze legacy data, define migration rules, support data preparation, validate migrated data, and coordinate issue resolution with business and technical teams.

You will work across functions to ensure data accuracy, completeness and sign-off, enabling readiness and trusted decision-making from day one.