Data Migration Lead: Deposits Modernization & Cutover

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

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.