Data Migration Lead
National Health Service
As Data Migration Lead, you will steer end-to-end data migration initiatives within our Clinical Systems team to transfer patient records safely and accurately. You’ll collaborate with internal teams, external partners and EPR suppliers to plan, coordinate and deliver migrations on time, while upholding data quality and patient safety. This role is predominantly remote with occasional UK travel and offers exposure to diverse clinical systems and service transformation programmes. You will shape data migration approaches that enable high-quality healthcare delivery across the UK.
Pay / Benefits- Competitive salary up to 50,000
- Remote working with occasional travel
- Group pension
- My Reward Hub discounts
- Wages on demand
- Wellbeing resources and support
- Lead and coordinate end-to-end data migration projects with detailed plans and deliverables
- Manage safe transfer and transformation of patient records between EPR systems ensuring data quality
- Build strong relationships with internal teams, external organisations and EPR suppliers
- Coordinate data extraction, transformation, testing and migration activities
- Identify and escalate project risks, maintain RAID logs and key decision records
- Ensure compliance with information governance, security and patient safety requirements
- Support data validation and testing with technical and database teams
- Provide regular updates and presentations to boards and senior stakeholders
- Contribute to planning of new healthcare service mobilisations and data migration requirements
- Drive continuous improvement of migration processes and documentation
- Serve as a central point of contact to ensure smooth project progress under pressure
- A recognised Project Management qualification or extensive PM experience (min 5 years)
- A technical qualification or ≥2 years' experience in data management, SQL Server, or database engineering
- Proven experience managing complex data movement or transformation projects
- Strong knowledge of PM methodologies and delivery approaches
- Knowledge of data structures, healthcare datasets and SNOMED CT
- Understanding of information governance and data protection for sensitive information
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills with negotiation ability
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills with ability to manage priorities and deadlines
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
- Relationship management and influencing ability
- Organisational and problem-solving skills
- Data management and data migration
- SQL Server and database engineering
- Experience with EPR systems or healthcare information systems
Reference: WJ-747_31214414 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:16 PM