Core Banking Data Migration Lead

SID Global Solutions

Metro Manila

On-site

PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

SID Global Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Migration Lead in Metro Manila to steer the Deposits Modernization Program's migration workstream and be the primary counterpart to the vendor’s Data Migration Manager. You will own governance, verification, and sign-off for migration activities, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and auditability with minimal business disruption.

The role demands 8+ years in large-scale data migration, banking domain experience, and hands-on work with

Qualifications

8+ years delivering large-scale data migration initiatives (core banking/deposits).
Led a data migration workstream and managed vendor delivery teams.
Experience with legacy-to-modern migrations (AS/400 to modern core banking) preferred.
Hands-on experience with TCS, Finacle, or Fiserv platforms (two required).

Responsibilities

Define the overall migration strategy, scope, approach (phasing/co-existence if applicable), and acceptance criteria; align with program releases and cutover milestones.
Develop and maintain the data migration plan (timeline, environments, mock runs/dress rehearsals, final cutover), including dependencies with Integration, Testing, Operations, and legacy platform teams.
Govern vendor delivery: review and validate vendor migration design, runbooks, ETL approach, mapping specifications, transformation rules, and reconciliation logic; ensure clear RACI and delivery ownership.
Coordinate Bank business and IT SMEs to validate source-to-target mappings, reference data alignment, and critical business rules.
Define and execute Bank verification controls with the vendor and obtain stakeholder sign-off for each migration cycle.
Lead migration defect triage from a Bank perspective: ensure issues are logged, prioritized, tracked to closure, and that RCA is completed for recurring defects; escalated risks early.
Ensure test data readiness for SIT/UAT and parallel run activities; data masking where required.
Plan and coordinate cutover data activities and readiness checkpoints with minimal downtime and operational impact.
Ensure compliance with Bank data governance, security, and regulatory requirements throughout migration.
Provide regular status reporting to program governance and senior stakeholders; maintain RAID and action logs for the data migration workstream.