Data Migration & Decommissioning Lead

CodeVerse; Dunton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

CodeVerse is seeking a Data Migration & Decommissioning Lead to establish discovery, dependency mapping and retirement for a legacy data estate spanning Alteryx, GDW, DataStage, DB2 and SCOPE. You will map dependencies, define the migrate/retire/retain framework and drive milestones with system owners.

You will track progress in Jira and ensure readiness with business sign-off, delivering a repeatable retirement method across the estate.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data migration and decommissioning of legacy estates.
• Ability to establish discovery, dependency mapping and retirement approaches for multi-tool environments.
• Strong collaboration with system owners and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish a repeatable legacy retirement method and estate register covering consumers, feeds, processes, owners and dependencies.
• Conduct an end-to-end deep dependency mapping of the first priority system/component and validate with owners.
• Define the retire / migrate / retain decision process, including reconciliation, data retention, business acceptance, cutover and rollback.
• Track legacy systems, dependencies, retirement plans and milestones in Jira.
• Drive at least one agreed migration or retirement milestone during the engagement.
• Ensure retirement activity is aligned with replacement readiness and business sign-off.

Skills

Data migration

Legacy retirement

Dependency mapping

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Jira

Job description

Job Title: Data Migration & Decommissioning Lead

Role Overview

We are looking for a Data Migration & Decommissioning Lead to establish the discovery, dependency mapping and retirement approach for a legacy data estate, covering Alteryx, GDW, DataStage, DB2 and SCOPE.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a repeatable legacy retirement method and estate register covering consumers, feeds, processes, owners and dependencies.
• Conduct an end-to-end deep dependency mapping of the first priority system/component and validate it with owners.
• Define the retire / migrate / retain decision process, including reconciliation, data retention, business acceptance, cutover and rollback.
• Track legacy systems, dependencies, retirement plans and milestones in Jira.
• Drive at least one agreed migration or retirement milestone during the engagement.
• Ensure retirement activity is aligned with replacement readiness and business sign-off.

Success Criteria

• Retirement method and estate register proven on the first priority system.
• Retire/migrate/retain process and reconciliation/rollback approach established.
• One migration or retirement milestone successfully driven.
• Approach established to scale across the wider legacy estate.

Replacement certified data product must be live and validated before decommissioning, with regulatory continuity requirements maintained throughout.