Senior Policy Data Migration Specialist

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd hires a Senior Data & Business Analyst to own a large-scale insurance data migration programme end-to-end. You will translate underwriting and policy data requirements into precise data specifications and drive cross-functional collaboration across business, data, and IT teams.

You will map, validate and reconcile data from legacy systems to a modern Policy Administration System, ensuring data integrity, lineage and quality throughout the migration lifecycle,

Qualifications

• Strong experience in large-scale data migration projects.
• Ability to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Experience with data mapping, data modelling and data quality controls.
• Proficient in analysing structured integration payloads such as JSON.
• Demonstrated ability to perform root-cause analysis and manage defects.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of policy data throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Analyse data from legacy insurance and policy administration platforms.
• Perform source-to-target data mapping between systems.
• Validate structured data payloads and JSON interfaces.
• Develop data dictionaries, mapping matrices and validation rules.
• Coordinate migration readiness and remediation with multiple teams.
• Support migration testing, data-quality testing and UAT.

Skills

Data migration

Data mapping

JSON interfaces

Data validation

Data reconciliation

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Underwriting knowledge

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Tools

SQL

Guidewire PolicyCenter

Appian

JSON APIs

Job description

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd hires a Senior Data & Business Analyst to own a large-scale insurance data migration programme end-to-end. You will translate underwriting and policy data requirements into precise data specifications and drive cross-functional collaboration across business, data, and IT teams.

You will map, validate and reconcile data from legacy systems to a modern Policy Administration System, ensuring data integrity, lineage and quality throughout the migration lifecycle,