Head of Data Migration

At Plot Box, data migration is a critical part of bringing our customers successfully onto our platform. We’re looking for an experienced Head of Data Migration to take full ownership of this function - leading the team, improving how we deliver, and building a migration capability that is scalable, predictable and trusted across the business.

This is much more than a technical leadership role.

You’ll be accountable for the people, performance and delivery of the Data Migration function, ensuring customers move successfully from their existing systems into Plot Box and that migration commitments can be relied upon by teams across the business.

Our Data teams focus is on increasing throughput, improving predictability and moving further away from bespoke customer-by-customer migrations towards reusable, scalable migration approaches.

We need someone who can lead that next stage.

You’ll combine strong people leadership, technical credibility and commercial awareness. You’ll create accountability, develop the capability of the team, challenge existing ways of working and use meaningful data to understand where delivery can be improved.

You’ll also be comfortable getting close to the technology. While your primary responsibility is leading the function, you'll have sufficient technical depth to review and challenge migration approaches, contribute to technical decisions and establish strong engineering standards.

• Own the end-to-end data migration delivery pipeline, from prerequisites and migration through Data Acceptance Testing, go-live and hypercare, ensuring clear ownership and accountability at every stage.
• Own migration schedules and delivery commitments, ensuring timelines are realistic, dependencies are understood and risks or delays are identified and communicated early and clearly to relevant internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Establish meaningful migration performance metrics and reporting, creating reliable measures for migration duration, throughput, quality and predictability to provide clear visibility of the team’s performance and contribution to customer go-live.
• Improve the instrumentation and tracking of migration work, ensuring accurate and consistent data is captured across tools and processes to support operational decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Drive improvements in first-pass data quality, reducing the number of customer acceptance cycles required and improving the predictability and speed of migrations through Data Acceptance Testing.
• Identify and remove bottlenecks across the migration lifecycle, using delivery and quality data to improve processes, reduce delays and increase overall team effectiveness.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership to the Data Migration team, reviewing and contributing to migration code, making technical and design decisions, and establishing engineering standards and best practices.
• Drive the development of reusable and scalable migration approaches, reducing unnecessary bespoke work and improving the efficiency, consistency and maintainability of migrations. Ensuring that migration playbooks are consistently followed to give the best outcomes for Plot Box and its customers.
• Lead and develop the Data Migration Team, providing clear expectations, coaching and support to enable them to take increasing ownership of day‑to‑day delivery, team performance and people leadership.
• Hold overall accountability for the performance and effectiveness of the Data Migration team, working through the Team Leads to build a high‑performing, accountable and continuously improving team.
• Represent Data Migration across the wider business, partnering effectively with Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Operations and senior leadership to…