DATA MIGRATION LEAD

SLI Consulting Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

SLI Consulting Inc. seeks an experienced data migration lead to drive large-scale core banking migrations in a coordinated program. You will align strategy with releases, manage vendor delivery, and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders across IT and business teams.

The role requires hands-on ETL expertise, strong data quality discipline, and excellent documentation and communication to ensure a smooth cutover and clear RCA for defects.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience delivering large-scale data migration initiatives, preferably core banking or deposits.
• Experience leading data migration workstreams and managing vendor delivery teams with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Hands-on with legacy-to-modern platform migrations and banking data objects; strong data validation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define migration strategy, scope, approach, and acceptance criteria aligned with program milestones.
• Develop and maintain the data migration plan, including dependencies with other teams.
• Govern vendor delivery: review design, runbooks, ETL approach, mappings, transformations, and reconciliation.
• Lead migration defect triage, ensure issues are logged, tracked, and root-causes documented.

Skills

Data migration

Stakeholder management

ETL concepts

SQL

Data quality

Documentation

Communication

Pattern spotting

Tools

TCS

Finacle

Fiserv

Job description

• 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, Finacle, or Fiserv platforms (at least two required)
• Knowledge Area 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.

Skills

• 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.

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.
• Lead migration defect triage ensure issues are logged, prioritized, tracked to closure, and that RCA is completed for recurring defects; escalation risks early.