Data Migration & Transformation - SMBC - #2159024

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The Executive Director of Data Migration & Transformation is a critical role as we advance our data capabilities in EMEA. This experienced individual will define and lead the enterprise-wide migration, data transformation, and onboarding strategy, ensuring seamless execution of complex, large-scale programmes across the organisation. Working with IT and programme teams, the role holder will leverage their knowledge and expertise to drive the delivery of all EMEA data migration and data transformation activities.

The role holder will be accountable for ensuring the organisation advances its data migration strategy and provides fit-for-purpose migration services, new core capabilities and tools. In addition, they will ensure that the data management framework is applied to data impacted by change activities, ensuring data management by design. The role requires an ability to educate and convince stakeholders at all levels and data knowledge/experience across the organisation on the essential nature of good data migration, as well as a clear understanding and articulation of any dependencies across the change portfolio.

This is a senior role, with full accountability for strategic direction, delivery outcomes, risk management, and value realisation across all migration and data transformation activities. It underpins regulatory alignment, including ECB, BCBS239, CRR3/Basel 3.1 GDPR and operational resilience requirements.

The role will primarily work with our IT, Data and Programme Office functions to deliver:

• Data Management by design so that data management requirements are adhered to as part and parcel of change programmes
• Coordinate across the Data Office Pillars (Data Product Management & Architecture, Data Analytics, Information Governance and Data Governance) to ensure that all Data impacts are considered and managed in the programmes so that the data can be relied on post CTB into RTB.
• An agreed Data Migration approach for data migrations across a range of programme and project deliveries.
• Management of dependencies with regards to data quality, both before migrations and afterwards.
• Collaboration with IT to detail and build the scripts/ tools required to deliver migrations. This includes any monitoring and quality assurance scripts to provide confidence migrations will be successful.
• Deliver new migration tools and their use to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our data migrations.

The candidate must be willing to challenge the status quo in an empathic manner, while helping the wider Data Office team to have an ethos of openness and transparency that will help us nurture real business innovation. If you want to make a real difference, and not just in one team but across the entire bank, we would love to speak to you more.

Role Summary

The Executive Director of Data Migration & Transformation is a critical role as we advance our data capabilities in EMEA. This experienced individual will define and lead the enterprise-wide migration, data transformation, and onboarding strategy, ensuring seamless execution of complex, large-scale programmes across the organisation. Working with IT and programme teams, the role holder will leverage their knowledge and expertise to drive the delivery of all EMEA data migration and data transformation activities.

The role holder will be accountable for ensuring the organisation advances its data migration strategy and provides fit-for-purpose migration services, new core capabilities and tools. In addition, they will ensure that the data management framework is applied to data impacted by change activities, ensuring data management by design. The role requires an ability to educate and convince stakeholders at all levels and data knowledge/experience across the organisation on the essential nature of good data migration, as well as a clear understanding and articulation of any dependencies across the change portfolio.

This is a senior role, with full accountability for strategic direction, delivery outcomes, risk management, and value realisation across all migration and data transformation activities. It underpins regulatory alignment, including ECB, BCBS239, CRR3/Basel 3.1 GDPR and operational resilience requirements.

The role will primarily work with our IT, Data and Programme Office functions to deliver:

• Data Management by design so that data management requirements are adhered to as part and parcel of change programmes
• Coordinate across the Data Office Pillars (Data Product Management & Architecture, Data Analytics, Information Governance and Data Governance) to ensure that all Data impacts are considered and managed in the programmes so that the data can be relied on post CTB into RTB.
• An agreed Data Migration approach for data migrations across a range of programme and project deliveries.
• Management of dependencies with regards to data quality, both before migrations and afterwards.
• Collaboration with IT to detail and build the scripts/ tools required to deliver migrations. This includes any monitoring and quality assurance scripts to provide confidence migrations will be successful.
• Deliver new migration tools and their use to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our data migrations.

The candidate must be willing to challenge the status quo in an empathic manner, while helping the wider Data Office team to have an ethos of openness and transparency that will help us nurture real business innovation. If you want to make a real difference, and not just in one team but across the entire bank, we would love to speak to you more.

Accountability & Responsibility

Enterprise Strategy & Transformation Leadership

Define and own the enterprise-wide migration and transformation strategy, aligned with business growth, regulatory requirements, and transformation priorities.

Lead multi-year strategic roadmaps delivering data transformation and migration where required for large scale transformations and change initiatives.Advise senior leadership on strategic trade-offs, sequencing, and invest