Data Migration & Cutover Lead

Indigo Beam • Houston, TX

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Data Migration & Cutover Lead will be the single accountable lead for data migration, Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) onboarding, and production cutover into IMOS for a global energy and trading client. The role leads the migration team and is accountable for accurate migration, reconciliation, business acceptance, and a low-disruption cutover.

The position is based on-site in Houston, Texas, five days per week, and is a contract role.

Requirements

• Significant enterprise-scale data migration and cutover leadership experience.
• Hands-on experience with transaction, master, and reference data migration.
• Experience with enterprise data platform onboarding (e.g., Snowflake) and operational transition.
• Strong governance, executive communication, risk, and dependency management skills.
• Must be able to work on-site in Houston, Texas, five days per week.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with IMOS or other trading, shipping, or commodity systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the migration strategy, roadmap, scope, sequencing, governance, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead transaction, master, and reference data migration, including mapping, transformation, conversion, and loading.
• Own IMOS Snowflake onboarding into the client's Enterprise Data Platform and validate downstream reporting and data products.
• Develop the integrated cutover runbook, migration windows, freezes, rollback criteria, and contingency plans.
• Lead rehearsals and mock migrations, production execution, hypercare, and operational handover.
• Coordinate migration managers, data engineers, business analysts, SMEs, testing teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Deliver data migration and reconciliation to agreed criteria, business validation and acceptance, and EDP onboarding with required controls and operational readiness.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed