Data Migration Lead for HR Transformation

Boots UK; Beeston; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings plan

Discretionary bonus

Employee discounts

Parental leave pay

Extra holiday

Gym membership

Life assurance

Counselling support

Job summary

Boots UK is seeking a Data Migration Lead for HR Transformation to govern end-to-end data migration activities across multiple HR platforms. You will own migration strategy, ensure GDPR compliance, and partner with IT, suppliers and HR SMEs to deliver a successful transition.

The role requires delivering complex data migration programs, setting governance, and overseeing ETL, testing, cutover and archival activities while advocating data quality and privacy across the enterprise.

Job description

As the Data Migration Lead for HR Transformation, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing a large-scale enterprise data migration programme within our HR department. This role is responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end approach for extracting, cleansing, transforming, validating, reconciling, archiving and migrating data from HR platforms into new systems. The Data Migration Lead will act as the primary authority for data migration and archival activities, partnering closely with HR (including data analysts/SMEs from that function), IT, incumbent platform suppliers and the HR Systems Integrator to ensure the successful transition of data to the new platform. As the accountable Data Migration Lead, they will be involved throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that migration solutions are fit for purpose, compliant with data privacy requirements and aligned to programme objectives. The role will work closely with the Project Manager, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture and the Systems Integrator Data Migration Lead to resolve migration challenges and ensure delivery success.

Responsibilities

• Define migration principles, standards, quality gates and governance controls and owning the overall data migration, data archiving and data retention strategy.
• Define migration waves, cutover approaches and archival requirements and identify key migration risks, assumptions and dependencies.
• Oversee ETL activities and lead mock migrations, dress rehearsals and production migration events.
• Review migration deliverables and ensure integrity of migrated data.
• Ensure compliance with GDPR, security and governance policies, defining controls for handling personal and sensitive data.
• Establish audit and reconciliation processes.
• Act as primary counterpart to the Systems Integrator Data Migration Lead.
• Manage relationships with incumbent HR platform suppliers to facilitate data extracts and archival activities and challenge migration solutions where appropriate.
• Facilitate workshops and migration decision forums.
• Communicate complex data concepts in business-friendly language.
• Experience leading at least two large-scale enterprise data migration programmes involving multiple source systems, complex data landscapes and significant business transformation.
• Experience working in complex environments involving multiple suppliers, implementation partners and legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of how data migration activities integrate with testing, cutover, business readiness and operational transition.
• Experience defining migration governance, controls, quality gates and success criteria.
• Ability to manage technical, business and regulatory requirements to deliver successful migration outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of data migration methodologies and best practices across the full migration lifecycle.
• Strong technical understanding of data discovery, profiling, ETL/ELT, quality management, remediation, reconciliation and validation.
• Experience with data governance, data privacy, GDPR and information security controls.
• Experience with data archiving, retention and legacy system decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of data migration tools, accelerators and automation processes.
• Ability to challenge and influence suppliers and delivery partners to ensure migration solutions are robust, efficient and aligned to programme objectives.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience with global HR deployments across multiple geographies.
• Background in HR process optimisation or HR technology strategy.

Rewards designed for you:

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

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