Data Migration Lead (Healthcare Data)

Role: Data Migration Lead – Ireland or UK

Location: Applicants must have the permanent right to work in Ireland or UK. Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this role

Travel: Occasional travel for client visits and team meetings

Salary: Up to £95,000 plus benefits (DOE)

We are partnering with a specialist healthcare technology provider to recruit an experienced Data Migration Lead. In this role, you will take ownership of migrating complex healthcare data from legacy systems into modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms, such as Oracle Health (Cerner Millennium), Epic, and Meditech.

Your work will directly support major, high-impact digital transformation programmes across NHS trusts in the UK and HSE regions in Ireland. You will lead the end-to-end data migration journey, and act as the crucial bridge between technical data teams, clinical workflows, and project stakeholders, while also providing mentoring and direction to an internal delivery team.

What You Will Be Doing

• Strategy & End-to-End Delivery: Design, own, and execute the comprehensive Data Migration Strategy and Project Plan from inception through to go-live.
• Team Leadership: Manage specific data migration sub-workstreams and take direct line responsibility for mentoring and guiding graduate and senior data migration specialists.
• Data Quality & Tooling: Oversee transformation software and ETL tools, leading rigorous data cleansing, validation, and quality assurance processes. You will ensure all migrated data aligns seamlessly with clinical requirements and local statutory reporting standards (NHS/HSE).
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary technical point of contact for clinical teams, internal IT, infrastructure engineers, and third-party suppliers. You will lead remote client sessions via MS Teams, present progress updates to programme boards, and ensure clear communication across all departments.
• Risk & Problem Solving: Proactively identify, triage, and mitigate technical risks and project bottlenecks to keep transformations on schedule and within scope.

What You Will Need to Bring

• Healthcare Domain Expertise: Proven track record leading end-to-end data migration projects, ideally within the UK or Irish healthcare sectors, with a strong understanding of NHS or HSE data models and statutory reporting.
• Consultancy Background: Experience working in a customer-facing, advisory, or consultancy capacity, with the confidence to run workshops and manage complex client relationships remotely.
• Collaborative & Reliable: You are a natural team player who builds strong rapport with clients and colleagues alike, taking genuine pride in delivering on your promises.
• Structured & Detail-Oriented: You thrive under pressure, using a methodical, structured approach to triage tasks and hit critical project deadlines without missing the small details.
• Adaptable & Problem-Solving: You bring a creative mindset to solving difficult technical challenges and are always eager to learn and adopt new technologies

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience using Microsoft T-SQL (or similar RDBMS languages) to write queries, analyse complex data sets, and support migrations.
• Working knowledge of ETL tools such as Microsoft SSIS.
• Familiarity with major EHR systems, with a strong preference for Epic / Oracle Health / Cerner Millennium experience.
• Comfortable using project delivery and collaboration tools, including Jira and the full MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot).