Banking Data Migration Lead (Trade Finance & Lending)

Thakral One Pte. Ltd.; Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Thakral One Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Data Migration SME to lead the migration of Trade Finance and Lending data from legacy systems to the target core banking platform. You will define the strategy, coordinate waves, cut-over planning, and ensure data accuracy and timeliness.

You will partner with stakeholders, map data, develop runbooks, validate outcomes, and align migration activities with programme objectives. Banking domain knowledge and experience with ETL tools are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience delivering end-to-end data migration projects in banking or financial services.
• Experience designing and presenting migration strategies to stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of Trade Finance domains (LCs, guarantees, collections, trade loans, supply chain finance, limits, margins, charges).
• Strong knowledge of Lending domains (loans, syndicated facilities, repayment schedules, interest accruals, collateral, arrears, provisioning).

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver migration strategy including scope, waves, cut-over planning, reconciliation frameworks, fallback procedures, and risk mitigation.
• Plan and coordinate mock migrations, dress rehearsals, and production cut-over activities, including go/no-go criteria.
• Provide regular updates on migration progress, risks, issues, and dependencies to project leadership and PMO stakeholders.
• Analyse source system data structures and map them to the target data model.
• Develop and maintain migration artefacts including mapping specifications, transformation rules, data dictionaries, and runbooks.
• Conduct data profiling and quality assessments, identify issues, and coordinate cleansing activities.
• Design and execute reconciliation controls (record counts, balances, attribute validations).
• Partner with business users to define data requirements, resolve open transaction handling, and obtain migration sign-off.
• Support testing teams by defining migration test scenarios and validating outcomes.
• Collaborate with product owners, solution architects, and delivery teams to align migration activities with programme objectives.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Data profiling

Stakeholder management

Migration strategies

Agile/Waterfall

Tools

Informatica

Talend

SSIS

Azure Data Factory

Python

Job description

Thakral One Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Data Migration SME to lead the migration of Trade Finance and Lending data from legacy systems to the target core banking platform. You will define the strategy, coordinate waves, cut-over planning, and ensure data accuracy and timeliness.

You will partner with stakeholders, map data, develop runbooks, validate outcomes, and align migration activities with programme objectives. Banking domain knowledge and experience with ETL tools are highly valued.