Data Migration Architect - Active SC, HL7, Healthcare
Up to £600 per day - Outside IR35
South / Hybrid
6 months
My client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require a Data Migration Architect with Active SC clearance to join a business-critical programme.
Key Responsibilities:
* Own the data migration strategy and architecture - defining scope, principles, sequencing, cutover patterns, and ensuring alignment with integration and coexistence approaches.
* Define what data migrates vs. archives and sets rules for clinical safety, governance, quality, validation, cleansing, and exception handling.
* Consume and validate analytical inputs (profiling, quality assessments, READSNOMED impacts) to identify migration-specific risks.
* Design source-to-canonical mappings and target data representations, covering DMICP, archives, staging environments, and downstream consumers.
* Provide architectural oversight during development, ensuring engineers implement the design accurately and resolving design-related issues.
* Approves and assures migration execution, including reconciliation, verification, auditability, and clinical safety evidence for rehearsal and live runs.
* Drives continuous improvement, supporting post-migration assurance, lessons learned, and future migration planning (e.g., additional data domains).
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Must have Active SC.
Nice to have:
* Immediate availability.
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