Senior Data Migration & Modernization Lead

Socket.dev; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Holidays

Discretionary bonus

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Health Savings Account

Disability

Student Loan PayDown

Tuition Reimbursement

Learning & Certifications

Employee Referral Program

Community Outreach

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a seasoned data modernization leader to oversee end-to-end data workstreams, migration strategy, and governance for enterprise-scale initiatives. The role requires guiding complex migrations, profiling, and canonical data product expansion across HR data environments.

You will coordinate with executives and multiple stakeholders to ensure successful delivery, quality, and risk management. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years leading enterprise data modernization programs.
• Experience with data migration across complex source systems.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end data workstream and establish migration strategy, governance cadence, priorities, and integrated delivery plan.
• Define system and asset rationalization criteria and guide migration decisions.
• Prioritize migration waves using business value, readiness, complexity, risk, and impact.
• Direct profiling, quality analysis, mapping, conversion, reconciliation, validation, and readiness activities.
• Oversee migration execution across Databricks architecture, engineering, testing, release, stabilization, and operational transition.
• Guide expansion of canonical HR data products and reusable patterns beyond initial waves.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across business, HR, application, integration, security, architecture, governance, and program leadership.
• Establish repeatable operating model, standards, gates, metrics, and lessons learned for broader rollout.
• Lead executive communications and ensure accountability for scope, schedule, quality, and outcomes.

Skills

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Data governance

Data quality

DataOps

Migration strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a seasoned data modernization leader to oversee end-to-end data workstreams, migration strategy, and governance for enterprise-scale initiatives. The role requires guiding complex migrations, profiling, and canonical data product expansion across HR data environments.

You will coordinate with executives and multiple stakeholders to ensure successful delivery, quality, and risk management. Travel up to 25% may be required.