Data Migration Specialist
Posted 1 week ago by Whitehall Resources Ltd on JobServe
Negotiable
Inside
Onsite
Coventry, UK
Summary: The Data Migration Specialist will lead the end-to-end migration of large-scale datasets from legacy systems to a modern cloud platform, primarily utilizing Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This role requires a strong background in data migration strategies and experience in the utilities or telemetry/SCADA systems domain. The position involves on-site work in Coventry for 2-3 days per week and is classified as inside IR35. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure compliance and data quality throughout the migration process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and execute comprehensive data migration strategies, including ETL pipelines, validation frameworks, and data quality controls.
- Oversee the integration of Legacy systems into Azure Databricks, ensuring Real Time data flow for spatial, time-series, and IoT data.
- Partner with cloud engineers, data architects, and governance leads to build scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions.
- Act as a bridge between business and technical stakeholders, translating requirements into actionable migration plans aligned with business goals.
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and user onboarding for internal teams on new tools, platforms, and AI/MDM practices.
- Ensure all migration efforts comply with data governance and regulatory requirements, including GDPR and internal quality standards.
- Monitor and resolve data quality issues proactively, ensuring data completeness, consistency, and reliability throughout the migration lifecycle.
- Lead and support multidisciplinary data engineering teams, offering guidance, removing roadblocks, and ensuring project success.
- Implement risk mitigation strategies, including rollback plans, data recovery protocols, and contingency testing.
- Apply industry-specific knowledge of water utilities, SCADA systems, and telemetry data to design tailored, future-ready data solutions.
Key Skills:
- Data migration plan and strategy including pre-migration, migration and post migration.
- Data validations in pre-migration, migration and post migration.
- Data migration risk and mitigation.
- Data rollback procedures.
- Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Fabric.
- ADLS, Azure Blob, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Delta Lake, Oracle DB.
- Experience with unstructured data.
- Data Mapping, ETL Mapping.
- Data Governance (Purview, Databrick Unity Catalog).
- MDM (Profisee, Informatica).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Coventry
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT