Data Migration Lead - Central Government

In this Data Migration Lead role, you will steer the planning, coordination and assurance of HR data migration across a Defence-focused programme. You’ll shape data cleansing, mapping, validation and readiness to align with milestones and the Oracle Fusion roadmap, while coordinating across military and civilian stakeholders. You’ll establish governance, ways of working and assurance to secure high‑quality data migration and informed decisions on data quality and risk. This is a strategic, large-scale transformation that impacts future HR services in Defence, requiring clear communication and delivery discipline. You will work in a hybrid setting, contributing to a mission-driven programme.

• Provide leadership and direction for planning, coordination and assurance of HR data migration activity across the programme
• Shape and drive approach to data cleansing, data mapping, attribute validation, reconciliation and migration readiness
• Align data activities with programme milestones and future Oracle Fusion landscape
• Collaborate across military and civilian stakeholder groups, delivery partners and governance forums
• Establish governance, assurance mechanisms and ways of working to support data migration quality
• Inform decisions on data quality, source-to-target mapping, validation, reconciliation and migration risk
• Ensure secure and effective handling of sensitive people data throughout the process
• Support large-scale Defence HR transformation and future HR services

• Experience leading or coordinating data migration or data quality activities in complex programmes
• Strong understanding of data migration principles (profiling, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, cutover readiness)
• Experience with large/complex datasets and turning analysis into action
• Ability to establish governance and assurance arrangements to improve data quality and confidence
• Proven ability to lead across multiple stakeholder groups and manage priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to communicate to non-technical audiences
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with evidence-based recommendations
• Understanding of data protection and information security for sensitive personal data
• Comfort working in a changing programme with ambiguity, risks, issues and dependencies
• Security clearance: SC requested

• Stakeholder management
• Clear communication to non-technical audiences
• Leadership and direction-setting
• Data profiling
• Data cleansing
• Data mapping