Data Migration Consultant

We are seeking an experienced Data Migration Consultant to support a largescale data migration programme. This role focuses on understanding data agreeing migration rules and ensuring data quality while working closely with clients delivery teams and testers to ensure data is migrated accurately and in line with business expectations.
The successful candidate will have a good grounding in data concepts with some technical capability and a clear desire to grow and pick up technical tasks over time particularly around data querying and validation.
This role bridges business understanding and technical delivery and is suited to someone who enjoys working across both worlds.


Key Responsibilities

• Map users from legacy systems to the new target system ensuring continuity of access roles and permissions.
• Map data structures between legacy and target platforms including fields relationships and dependencies.
• Map UI and logical system areas supporting understanding of how data and functionality transition into the new system.
• Work with clients and stakeholders to agree data and migration rules ensuring they reflect real operational and reporting needs.
• Understand and document business rules ensuring appropriate validation and consistency across the migration.
• Feed agreed rules mappings and assumptions to engineering teams ensuring clarity and traceability.
• Support data validation and assurance activities including reviewing data outputs and helping to investigate issues.
• Use SQL or similar querying tools to explore data support validation and understand migration outcomes (with support where needed).
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the importance of data quality including accuracy completeness consistency and integrity.
• Support QA and testing activities including UAT by helping investigate and resolve datarelated issues.
• Identify raise and track data risks issues and dependencies clearly communicating impacts to stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain clear documentation including data mappings rules assumptions and migration decisions.
   

Qualifications :

What Were Looking For

Essential

• Proven experience working on data migration or dataheavy transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of data structures and database systems including how data is stored related and validated.
• Experience mapping users data structures and rules between legacy and target systems.
• An appreciation of data quality principles and why they matter in businesscritical systems.
• Some technical capability with the willingness and motivation to develop further technical skills over time.
• Ability to work effectively with clients stakeholders and technical teams translating needs into clear migration inputs.
• Experience working with case management systems or similarly complex operational platforms.

Desirable

• Experience using SQL for data exploration validation or analysis.
• Exposure to legacytomodern platform migrations.
• Public sector or regulatedenvironment experience.

Additional Information :

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost) 
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell 
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like when you like how you like. 

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks. Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

Were NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad our software is helping to dispatch ambulances support families keep trains on the move locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us youll be helping our 3000 employees push the boundaries of whats possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments hospitals police forces housing providers local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do the more our customers can do for others. And together we make a world of difference.

Wed love your help. And well support you all the way.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time