Data Migration Lead - ISSG

Role:Data Migration Lead

Job Requisition Number:ISSG-005

Job Level:10+ years of relevant experience (L4)

Location:Singapore

Data Migration Lead to support a core banking transformation program for a client based in the Singapore. The lead will own the data migration stream in its entirety,including strategy, driving requirement analysis, and To-Be solution design andintegrations. This is a core banking implementation role. The candidate musthave hands-on, end-to-end experience delivering core banking transformation programs (not advisory-only exposure), and must be comfortable working directly with product vendors to challenge, validate, and finalize the To-Be system design.

• Analyze data requirements and design solutions.
• Define the project-specific data migration strategy, approach, and plan, coveringmigration scope, methods, tooling, the reconciliation framework, and lifecycledeliverables in full alignment with the program's Data Migration and Cutover Policy.
• Own the workstreamend to end. Analyze data requirements, design the To-Be migration solution, anddrive requirement and design sign-off with business and technology stakeholders.
• Manage all data migration activities and cross-team dependencies, coordinating the Data Mapping, Data Profiling & Cleansing, Reconciliation, and Static/Master Dataworkstreams, each staffed by dedicated specialists whose outputs this roleorchestrates.
• Plan and sequencethe migration lifecycle across its full arc: profiling and cleansing, mappingand build, iterative migration test runs, dress rehearsals, and the productioncutover weekend.
• Drive data mappingbetween legacy source systems (core platform, end-user computing applications,and head-office systems) and the target lending platform, validating mapping logic and transformation rules with source and target subject-matter experts.
• Support SIT/UAT test planning and execution, triage integration and data defects, and drive resolution with vendor and delivery teams through to closure.
• Lead migrationvalidation and reconciliation for the core banking modules. Record counts and control totals across every stage, through mock loads, dress rehearsals, and production data migration, and agree acceptance criteria for reconciliationvariances with end users.
• Support cutoverplanning and hypercare through go-live, ensuring readiness against the program's formal entry/exit criteria at each gate (tool test, dress rehearsal,cutover / go-no-go).
• Prepare regular status reporting on migration progress. Identify, resolve, and elevate risksand issues proactively, particularly where cross-team or vendor dependenciesput milestones at risk.
• Manage stakeholders across business, technology, and vendor organizations, including presentingmigration approaches, options, and risk positions directly to senior stakeholders and steering forums.

• 10+ years ofhands-on data migration / integration implementation experience within a core banking transformation program. Candidates with advisory-only or purelyfunctional-consulting backgrounds will not meet the bar for this role.
• Practical,personally delivered experience across the full migration lifecycle: data mapping, profiling, cleansing, reconciliation design, mock/trial loads, dressrehearsals, and production cutover execution.
• Working knowledge ofcore banking data structures for lending products: the facility / limit / loan/ transaction hierarchy, collateral and guarantee linkage, schedules, accruals,and balances. Strongly preferred given this release's lending scope.
• A strong grasp ofreconciliation principles: record counts versus control totals, multi-levelreconciliation (source, transformation, target, and GL), and the discipline ofaudit-ready evidence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting solution options,trade-offs, and status directly to senior stakeholders and vendor leadership.
• Must be based in the Singapore for the entire duration of the project. The exact work location willbe communicated after client confirmation.

• Prior experience acting as techno-functional SME across core banking plus one or more of Payments, Trade Finance, or Lending domains.
• Direct implementation experience on a modern packaged lending or universal-banking platform, particularly customer, lending, and trade data migration.
• Experience operating within a formal, policy-governed migration structure with defined KPIs, standard deliverable templates, and…