Data Migration Lead

Data Migration Lead role within the Clinical Systems team, focused on planning, coordinating and delivering data migrations of patient records across clinical systems. You will work remotely with clinical and technical teams to ensure safe, accurate transfers within deadlines, supporting NHS and community healthcare service delivery. The role emphasizes data integrity, patient safety and regulatory compliance in a healthcare context, with opportunities to influence service mobilisation and transformation.

• Competitive salary up to 50,000
• Predominantly remote working
• Group pension
• Wellbeing resources
• Learning and development programmes
• My Reward Hub discounts

• Lead and coordinate end-to-end data migration projects with internal teams, external organisations and system suppliers
• Manage safe transfer and transformation of patient records between EPR systems ensuring data quality
• Build strong relationships with programme teams, analytics teams, external healthcare organisations, technical specialists and EPR suppliers
• Coordinate data extraction, transformation, testing and migration activities with clear responsibilities and deadlines
• Identify, manage and escalate project risks, issues and dependencies; maintain RAID logs and decision records
• Collaborate with Information Governance and Clinical Safety to meet regulatory, security and patient safety requirements
• Support data validation and testing to ensure accurate data transfer into destination systems
• Provide regular progress updates, reports and presentations to programme boards and stakeholders
• Contribute to planning of new healthcare service mobilisations with technical data migration input
• Continuously improve migration processes, documentation and delivery approaches
• Be the key point of contact to align multiple teams and drive project progress under tight deadlines

• Recognised Project Management qualification or extensive experience (min five years)
• Technical qualification or >2 years in data management, SQL Server, database engineering or similar
• Proven track record in complex data movement/migration projects
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and delivery approaches
• Knowledge of data structures, healthcare datasets and SNOMED CT
• Understanding of information governance, data protection and handling of sensitive information
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills
• Strong organisation and problem-solving abilities with ability to manage competing priorities
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Desirable: experience with healthcare information systems (e.g., EPR) and Agile qualifications

• Communication
• Stakeholder engagement
• Relationship management
• Data management
• SQL Server
• Database engineering