Data Migration Architect

Salary: £30,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Data Migration Architect in large, complex data programmes.
• Strong understanding of clinical or regulated data migration, including legacy-system challenges.
• Knowledge of clinical coding standards such as READ, SNOMED, and dm+d.
• Ability to produce clear, authoritative migration designs and operate as a design authority.
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement capability.
• (Desirable) Experience with EHR systems such as TPP SystmOne or EMIS.
• (Desirable) Experience working with clinical safety, audit, and governance requirements.
• (Desirable) Experience designing phased, delta or dual-running migration models.

Responsibilities

• Defining the end-to-end migration strategy, including scope, sequencing, and success criteria.
• Determining which data is migrated, archived, or excluded, ensuring alignment with clinical safety and governance.
• Validating findings from analysts (profiling, data quality, code-mapping impacts) and identifying migration risks.
• Owning the Data Migration Architecture, including source, staging, and target data models.
• Producing clear design artefacts: logical mappings, cleansing/validation rules, exception handling, and cutover patterns.
• Providing architectural oversight to migration engineers and resolving design issues during build.
• Approving execution plans and ensuring reconciliation, verification, and auditability for rehearsal and live runs.
• Supporting post-migration assurance and contributing to improvements for future migration waves.

Technologies

• Architect
• REST

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We are seeking a Data Migration Architect for our client, offering a rate of £644 per day on an Outside IR35 basis. This is a hybrid position requiring attendance in Corsham two days a week, with the remainder of the work being remote. The contract duration is expected to be 6 months or longer. The role is crucial for ensuring the safe migration of clinical data, and candidates must already hold current SC Clearance to apply.

last updated 15 week of 2026