Data Migration Lead

We are seeking an experienced Temenos Data Migration Lead to oversee end-to-end data migration for a core banking transformation initiative, specifically the migration from Temenos R21 to R24. This role will be responsible for establishing the migration strategy, planning and coordinating migration activities, managing data extraction and transformation, driving data quality, and leading reconciliation and production cutover activities.

The successful candidate must bring strong expertise in Temenos Transact data structures, migration tools, JBC programming, and core banking functional domains. The position requires close partnership with business, functional, technical, and project stakeholders to deliver a successful migration with minimal disruption to business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and lead the overall data migration strategy, scope, approach, and execution plan.
• Lead data discovery, source-data analysis, profiling, and source-to-target mapping.
• Coordinate with business, functional, and technical teams to confirm migration requirements and business rules.
• Own the design and development of data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes.
• Manage data quality assessments, cleansing activities, issue resolution, and remediation.
• Define and carry out data reconciliation and validation procedures to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Plan and manage trial migrations, mock migrations, and production migration rehearsals.
• Develop migration runbooks, cutover plans, execution schedules, and go-live procedures.
• Monitor migration risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Deliver regular migration status reports and governance updates to project stakeholders.
• Coordinate migration across core banking domains, including Customer, Accounts, Deposits, Lending, Limits, Collateral, Payments, Treasury, FX, Securities, Wealth Management, Private Equity, and Financial Accounting.
• Lead production migration execution and manage post-migration validation and business sign-off.
• Ensure successful migration from Temenos R21 to R24 with minimal impact to banking operations.

Mandatory Skills

• 10–15 years of experience in Data Migration, preferably in Banking / BFSI
• Strong hands-on experience in Temenos Transact (T24) data migration
• Knowledge of Temenos R21 and R24 releases, Temenos data structures, application architecture
• Temenos Data Migration (DM) tools, JBC programming, data extraction from source releases
• Data migration strategy, migration planning, migration execution, migration governance
• Data discovery, data profiling, data analysis, source-to-target mapping
• Core banking data migration, data transformation, data cleansing, data validation
• ETL processes, data quality assessment, data reconciliation
• Mock migration, trial migration, migration rehearsal, production cutover
• Migration runbooks, cutover planning, go-live execution, post-migration validation
• Core banking modules: Customer, Accounts, Deposits, Lending, Limits, Collateral, Payments, Treasury, FX, Securities, Wealth Management, Financial Accounting
• Stakeholder management, cross-functional coordination, risk and issue management
• JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving, communication, and governance capabilities

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Basic SQL knowledge, database querying, data manipulation
• Java or Python programming experience
• Experience in end-to-end Temenos R21-to-R24 migration programs
• Experience handling large-scale core banking transformation projects