Data Migration Specialist
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About the Role
Tata Consultancy Services seeks a Senior Data Migration Lead to own end-to-end data migration for a complex enterprise transformation program. Requires 15+ years IT experience with 10+ years in data migration leadership, expertise in ERP data migration (Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA), and fluent Arabic.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall data migration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan aligned to program milestones
- Lead data discovery, profiling, and legacy system assessment across multiple source systems
- Define migration waves, cutover strategy, reconciliation approach, and rollback plans
- Establish Data Governance framework including data ownership, stewardship, quality rules, and approval workflows
- Drive data quality remediation, cleansing, and enrichment in collaboration with business data owners
- Define and track data quality KPIs, completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation metrics
- Ensure adherence to government data policies, security, confidentiality, and data residency requirements
- Lead and manage onsite and offshore data migration teams (ETL developers, analysts, testers)
- Own data mapping, transformation rules, validation, reconciliation, and sign off
- Oversee execution of mock migrations, dress rehearsals, and production cutovers
- Manage dependencies across functional, technical, integration, and testing teams
- Conduct data validation workshops, sign off sessions, and governance forums in Arabic and English
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall IT experience with 10+ years in Data Migration / Data Management leadership roles
- Proven experience leading large scale ERP data migration programs (Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA, or equivalent)
- Strong hands on experience with data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, ETL tools, reconciliation, and validation
- Experience managing multi vendor, multi team delivery models
- Prior experience working with Public Sector / Government entities (preferably in UAE / GCC)
- Strong understanding of government data governance, security, and compliance expectations
- Arabic – Fluent (spoken and written)
- English – Fluent
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About Us
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization.
- TCS offers a consulting led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions.
- A part of the Tata group, TCS has over 616,171 consultants with 157 nationalities in 53 countries.
Role Summary
- The Senior Data Migration Lead / Manager will be responsible for end to end ownership of the data migration workstream across a complex enterprise transformation program.
- This role will lead strategy, governance, execution, and stakeholder engagement for data migration from multiple legacy systems into the target enterprise platform.
- Requires strong leadership, deep hands on data migration expertise, and Arabic language capability.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall data migration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan aligned to program milestones.
- Lead data discovery, profiling, and legacy system assessment across multiple source systems.
- Define migration waves, cutover strategy, reconciliation approach, and rollback plans.
- Establish Data Governance framework including data ownership, stewardship, quality rules, and approval workflows.
- Drive data quality remediation, cleansing, and enrichment in collaboration with business data owners.
- Define and track data quality KPIs, completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation metrics.
- Ensure adherence to government data policies, security, confidentiality, and data residency requirements.
- Lead and manage onsite and offshore data migration teams (ETL developers, analysts, testers).
- Own data mapping, transformation rules, validation, reconciliation, and sign off.
- Oversee execution of mock migrations, dress rehearsals, and production cutovers.
- Manage dependencies across functional, technical, integration, and testing teams.
- Conduct data validation workshops, sign off sessions, and governance forums in Arabic and English.
Required Skills & Experience
- 15+ years of overall IT experience with 10+ years in Data Migration / Data Management leadership roles.
- Proven experience leading large scale ERP data migration programs (Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA, or equivalent).
- Strong hands on experience with data profiling & cleansing, data mapping & transformation, ETL tools (Informatica / ODI / Talend or similar), data reconciliation & validation.
- Experience managing multi vendor, multi team delivery models.
- Prior experience working with Public Sector / Government entities (preferably in UAE / GCC).
- Strong understanding of government data governance, security, and compliance expectations.
- Experience working in Arabic business environments.
- Arabic – Fluent (spoken and written).
- English – Fluent.
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