Data Migration Lead - Remote Healthcare Projects

NHS Jobs; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

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Group pension

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Access to wages as you earn

Wellbeing resources

Learning & development programmes

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Data Migration Lead to drive data transfer projects across clinical systems. You will plan, coordinate and deliver migrations, ensuring data integrity and patient safety while collaborating with technical teams and healthcare professionals nationwide.

The role is predominantly remote with very occasional UK travel; salary up to £50,000 plus pension and development opportunities. You will work within the Clinical Systems team to shape service delivery and governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of project management experience, preferably in healthcare or large-scale data migration.
• Technical qualification or experience in data management, SQL Server or similar.
• Proven ability to manage complex data movement between systems.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and delivery approaches.
• Understanding of healthcare datasets and relevant coding standards (SNOMED CT).
• Knowledge of information governance and handling of sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate data migration projects with detailed plans, timelines and deliverables.
• Manage safe transfer and transformation of patient records between EPR systems, ensuring data quality.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external teams and suppliers.
• Coordinate data extraction, transformation, testing and migration activities with clear responsibilities.
• Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues and RAID logs.
• Ensure regulatory, security and patient safety compliance with IG teams.
• Support data validation and testing with technical and database teams.
• Provide progress updates to programme boards and senior stakeholders.
• Assist planning of new healthcare service mobilisations and data migration requirements.
• Continuously improve migration processes and documentation.

Skills

Project management

Data migration

Stakeholder engagement

Healthcare IT

Education

Project Management qualification

Tools

SQL Server

SystmOne

EMIS Web

Job description

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Data Migration Lead to drive data transfer projects across clinical systems. You will plan, coordinate and deliver migrations, ensuring data integrity and patient safety while collaborating with technical teams and healthcare professionals nationwide.

The role is predominantly remote with very occasional UK travel; salary up to £50,000 plus pension and development opportunities. You will work within the Clinical Systems team to shape service delivery and governance.