Smartedge Client is looking for an individual to help with their in API Solution Architect (Data and Migration) _ Contract _ Dublin, Ireland (Remote)

Job Description:

The Data and Migration Solution Architect will define the data architecture and migration strategy required to support new platform implementations and complex transformation programmes. The role will be responsible for source-to-target mapping, data quality, cleansing, reconciliation, lineage, retention, migration sequencing, cutover, and coexistence between legacy and target platforms. The ideal candidate will have architected at least one complex banking-platform migration involving multiple source systems, significant data-quality remediation, controlled cutover, detailed reconciliation, and regulatory or audit requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Own data and migration architecture for assigned programmes.
• Define end-to-end migration strategies covering:
  • Data discovery
  • Extraction
  • Transformation
  • Cleansing
  • Loading
  • Validation
  • Reconciliation
  • Cutover
• Assess source-system data structures, data quality, ownership, lineage, volume, and dependencies.
• Define source-to-target mappings and transformation rules.
• Establish data-quality standards and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Define cleansing, enrichment, deduplication, exception handling, and remediation approaches.
• Establish reconciliation controls to demonstrate data completeness and accuracy.
• Design migration waves, trial migrations, mock conversions, dress rehearsals, cutover, and rollback approaches.
• Define business and technical responsibilities for data ownership and issue resolution.
• Develop strategies for data archival, retention, disposal, and historical access.
• Define data security, access-control, masking, encryption, and privacy requirements.
• Ensure alignment with data-governance and records-management obligations.
• Define data flows between operational systems, enterprise data services, reporting platforms, and analytical environments.
• Support migration from legacy platforms to modern or cloud-based platforms.
• Work with data factories, application teams, integration teams, testers, operations teams, and business data owners.
• Define migration performance, scheduling, outage, and operational requirements.
• Identify migration risks, data dependencies, constraints, and remediation plans.
• Present data and migration designs to architecture governance forums.