Data Migration Specialist

Job Title – Senior Data Migration Lead

Company – TCS (MEA)

Location – UAE

Job type – Full time

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agiletrade mark delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

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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, ensuring data quality, regulatory compliance, and business continuity.

The role requires strong leadership, deep hands‑on data migration expertise, and Arabic language capability to engage effectively with government business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Data Migration Strategy & Planning

• 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.

2. Data Governance & Quality Management

• 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.

3. Delivery Leadership & Execution

• 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.

4. Business & Stakeholder Engagement (Arabic Required)

• Conduct data validation workshops, sign‑off sessions, and governance forums in Arabic and English.
• Present data migration status, risks, and decisions at programme, steering committee, and executive forums.

Required Skills & Experience

Core 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.

Public Sector & Regional Experience

• 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.

Language Requirement (Mandatory)

• Arabic – Fluent (spoken and written)
• English – Fluent

Application Deadline: 30-June-2026

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