- Company Name
- idpp
- Job Title
- Data Migration Specialist
- Job Description
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Job Title: Data Migration Specialist
Role Summary:
Lead end‑to‑end data migration for a major card processor transformation, ensuring accurate, complete, and compliant transfer of customer, account, card, and transaction data from legacy to target systems with minimal operational impact.
Expectations:
Design a scalable migration strategy, execute multiple rehearsal cycles, maintain robust reconciliation processes, and provide transparent, data‑driven reporting to senior stakeholders to support go‑/no‑go decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own migration strategy, scope, and cutover plans for customers, accounts, cards, transactions, fraud data, and disputes.
- Design and implement reconciliation frameworks to guarantee data integrity.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute mock migrations, dress rehearsals, and parallel runs, incorporating lessons learned into final cutover.
- Manage data extraction, transformation, migration, and validation between legacy and target processors.
- Ensure compliance with bank data governance, audit requirements, GDPR, and card‑scheme retention and traceability mandates.
- Deliver migration readiness, data quality, risk, and recommendation reports to senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with testing, integration, production support, and operational teams to mitigate customer impact and maintain system stability.
Required Skills:
- Extensive experience leading large‑scale data migrations in card payment environments.
- Deep knowledge of card data structures across the entire lifecycle (customer, account, card, transaction, fraud, disputes).
- Proven ability in data reconciliation, quality management, and migration assurance.
- Experience executing multiple migration rehearsals and parallel run strategies.
- Strong grasp of regulatory, GDPR, audit, and card‑scheme data obligations.
- Excellent stakeholder management across data, technology, testing, and operations groups.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (preferred).
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., DMBOK, Certified Data Management Professional) are an advantage.