Data Migration Consultant - Big4

Roles & Responsibilities

- Provide consulting services to help our clients establish and deeply embed industry standard Data Architecture and Data Migration practices, frameworks, platforms and processes with explicit focus on Financial services industry while aligning to their data, technology and business strategies. Financial Services (FS) will include but not limited to Traditional/Core and Digital Banking, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, Card and Payments, and Capital Markets.

- Provide client guidance in planning, implementing, and exercising oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources, including but not limited to defining roles, responsibilities, and processes for ensuring accountability for and ownership of data assets across an enterprise in FS sector

- Provide consultancy in areas such as (but not limited to) data architecture, data migration, data quality and help client with solutions to resolve their biggest challenges in areas of data management.

- Design reporting applications including dashboards, reports and OLAP.

- Plan and directly oversee the migration of data, which may require minor adjustments

- Test the new system after the migration process as well as the resulting data to find errors and/or points of corruption to provide effective resolution

- Document everything from the strategies used to the exact migration processes put in place including documenting any fixes or adjustments made

- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and guidelines for all migrated data

- Provide recommendations on data best practices, technologies, industry trends and evaluate vendors and service providers on behalf of the client.

- Open to travelling extensively to MENA region and work directly with clients on projects.

Desired skill set-

- Strong domain experience in Financial Services (FS) including hands-on experience of implementing two or more of the following systems - Traditional (Core) and Digital Banking, Card and Payments, Wealth and Asset Management, Digital Channels, Trade and Treasury, Insurance and Capital Markets.

- Overall, 12-18 years' experience in solution delivery and implementation of FS Digital and Core Banking Systems such as Temenos, Finacle, Oracle Banking systems, Fiserv.

- Should have an extensive knowledge of data migration across enterprise systems, like Core Banking and FS Systems, Cloud and SAAS, IT Applications, Enterprise systems like ERP/CRM, COTS products, Digital and emerging technologies, and IT Governance.

- Good understanding and exposure to data migration involving large enterprise platforms and systems, including major ERPs, CRMs, PEGA, Service Management Platforms like ServiceNow/BMC Remedy, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS solutions.

- Must strong experience in key areas of data management including data architecture, data quality, data security.

- Must have good understanding of BI and Data Warehouse, Reference and MDM, Data Integration and Interoperability, Documents and Content, Data modelling and design, Data Science, ML and Big Data, Analytics and Dashboarding.

- Extensive consulting experience in Big-4s, IT Platform companies, Banks or Insurance companies, or other IT Consulting companies.

- COBIT and ITIL certification is desirable

- Possess sound Data Architecture and Data Migration experience in the Financial Services (FS) domain, preferably in three or more of the following areas: Traditional (Core) and Digital Banking, Card and Payments, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance and Capital Markets.

- Demonstrated expertise with REST services and Microservices

- Working knowledge of Hadoop, RedShift, Elasticsearch, Java as well as analytics tools like R, Kinesis or similar

- PgMP, PMP, CSM/Agile certification preferred