Data Lead - Enterprise Data Migration

Acunor Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acunor Inc in the United States invites an experienced Data Lead to own and drive the end-to-end data workstream for a large-scale financial services migration program. You will collaborate with Data Engineering, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams to ensure successful and controlled migration.

The role requires 12+ years in data engineering or migration, strong leadership, and deep expertise in data validation, reconciliation, testing (SIT/UAT), and cloud platforms (AWS).

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Integration, or Data Migration.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-scale data migration initiatives.
• Experience with data migration strategy, source-to-target mapping, transformation, conversion, and reconciliation.
• Strong understanding of Data Warehousing, ETL, SQL, Data Quality, and Data Governance.
• Hands-on experience defining data reconciliation and validation frameworks.
• Experience with migration testing, SIT/UAT, production cutover, rollback, and hypercare.
• Experience with cloud data platforms; AWS experience is preferred.
• Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional and onsite/offshore teams.
• Strong communication, workshop facilitation, risk management, and program governance skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data migration strategy, planning, and execution across source and target platforms.
• Define migration sequencing, source-to-target mapping, transformation rules, dependencies, cutover, rollback, and recovery strategies.
• Establish data validation, reconciliation, and data quality frameworks.
• Partner with QE teams to define migration testing strategies and support SIT, UAT, defect triage, and production validation.
• Lead production migration planning, cutover readiness, deployment activities, and post-production hypercare.
• Drive migration governance, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder sign-offs.
• Lead client workshops and communicate migration strategy, status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate across Data Engineering, Application, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams.
• Lead onsite/offshore data teams and migration SMEs.
• Ensure migration activities align with application releases, environment readiness, and overall program milestones.

Skills

Data Migration

Data Engineering

SQL

ETL

Data Governance

Stakeholder Management

Cloud AWS

Leadership

Cross-functional

Testing

Job description

Data Lead Enterprise Data Migration

Experience: 12+ Years
Location: San Diego, CA/ Charlotte, NC
Job Type: Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced
Data Lead to own and drive the end-to-end data workstream for a large-scale
financial services platform migration program. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in enterprise data migration, reconciliation, data quality, testing, cutover planning, and stakeholder management.

This is a senior, client-facing leadership role requiring close collaboration with Data Engineering, Application Development, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams to ensure successful and controlled migration execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the
  end-to-end data migration strategy, planning, and execution across source and target platforms.
• Define migration sequencing, source-to-target mapping, transformation rules, dependencies, cutover, rollback, and recovery strategies.
• Establish
  data validation, reconciliation, and data quality frameworks to ensure migration accuracy and completeness.
• Partner with QE teams to define migration testing strategies and support
  SIT, UAT, defect triage, and production validation.
• Lead production migration planning, cutover readiness, deployment activities, and post-production hypercare.
• Drive migration governance, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder sign-offs.
• Lead client workshops and communicate migration strategy, status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate across Data Engineering, Application, QE, Architecture, Product, and Business teams.
• Lead and provide direction to onsite/offshore data teams and migration SMEs.
• Ensure migration activities align with application releases, environment readiness, and overall program milestones.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Integration, or Data Migration.
• 5+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale data migration initiatives.
• Strong experience with
  data migration strategy, source-to-target mapping, transformation, conversion, and reconciliation.
• Strong understanding of
  Data Warehousing, ETL, SQL, Data Quality, and Data Governance.
• Hands-on experience defining
  data reconciliation and validation frameworks.
• Experience with
  migration testing, SIT/UAT, production cutover, rollback, and hypercare.
• Experience with cloud data platforms;
  AWS experience is preferred.
• Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional and onsite/offshore teams.
• Strong communication, workshop facilitation, risk management, and program governance skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience within
  Wealth Management, Brokerage, Banking, Insurance, or broader Financial Services.
• Experience migrating
  customer, account, advisor, policy, transaction, or financial data.
• Experience with large-scale platform modernization or legacy-to-cloud migration programs.
• Understanding of feature-flag-enabled migration approaches.
• Exposure to automated migration testing, reconciliation frameworks, or AI-assisted testing is an advantage.