Data Migration Lead

SID Global Solutions APAC; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

SID Global Solutions APAC seeks an experienced Data Migration Lead to own the migration workstream for the Deposits Modernization Program, partnering with the vendor’s Data Migration Manager to govern profiling, extraction, transformation, loading, and reconciliation, ensuring data accuracy with minimal business disruption.

The role defines strategy, develops the migration plan, coordinates with IT and business SMEs, validates mappings, and delivers verifiable data reconciliations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years delivering large-scale data migration initiatives, preferably core banking or deposits.
• Proven experience leading a data migration workstream and managing vendor delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall migration strategy, scope, approach, and acceptance criteria; align with program releases and cutover milestones.
• Develop and maintain the data migration plan (timeline, environments, mock runs, final cutover), including dependencies with IT and operations.
• Govern vendor delivery: review migration design, runbooks, ETL approach, mapping specs, and reconciliation logic; ensure clear ownership.
• Coordinate business and IT SMEs to validate source-to-target mappings, reference data, and critical business rules.
• Define and execute verification controls with the vendor and obtain stakeholder sign-off for each migration cycle.
• Lead migration defect triage; log, prioritize, track to closure; perform RCA for recurring defects.
• Ensure test data readiness for SIT/UAT and parallel run activities with data masking as required.
• Plan cutover data activities and readiness checkpoints with minimal downtime.
• Provide regular status reporting and maintain RAID/action logs for the migration workstream.

Job description

Job Overview: Leads data migration workstream for the Deposits Modernization Program, acting as the primary counterpart to the selected vendor’s Data Migration Manager. Owns -side governance, verification, and sign-off for vendor-led migration activities (profiling, extraction, transformation, loading, and reconciliation) to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and auditability with minimal business disruption.

Duties and 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 business and IT SMEs to validate source-to-target mappings, reference data alignment, and critical business rules (e.g., product parameters, balances, interest, fees, account status).
• Define and execute verification controls with the vendor (record counts, control totals, balance/GL tie-outs, exception management) and obtain stakeholder sign-off for each migration cycle.
• Lead migration defect triage from a perspective: ensure issues are logged, prioritized, tracked to closure, and that RCA is completed for recurring defects; elevate risks early.
• Ensure test data readiness for SIT/UAT and parallel run activities (data refreshes, data masking where required, refresh cadence, and data-related test support).
• Plan and coordinate cutover data activities and readiness checkpoints (pre-cutover snapshots, load sequencing, reconciliation checkpoints, rollback/fallback approach) with minimal downtime and operational impact.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements throughout migration (access control, secure transfer, audit trail, retention and masking for non-production).
• Provide regular status reporting (progress, risks, issues, decisions) to program governance and senior stakeholders; maintain RAID and action logs for the data migration workstream.

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience delivering large-scale data migration initiatives (preferably core banking / deposits), including mapping, reconciliation, and cutover support.
• Proven experience leading a data migration workstream and managing vendor delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern platform migrations (AS/400 to modern core banking, cloud-native or microservices architectures) is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with TCS, Pinnacle platforms
• Data quality and validation concepts
• Working understanding of ETL concepts and migration lifecycle
• Understanding of banking data objects (customer/account, balances, product parameters, transaction history) and downstream impacts.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with large datasets and spotting patterns/variances.
• Proficiency in SQL (preferred) and Excel; experience with data tools (e.g., Power BI) is a plus.
• Strong documentation discipline (logs, trackers, evidence packs) and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills to coordinate clarifications and follow-ups across IT, vendor, and business SMEs.
• Structured problem-solving and ability to summarize issues and impacts clearly.