Data Team Lead

On behalf of our healthcare client, Affinity Healthcare Solutions is looking for a Data Team Lead, a resource capable of performing a technical leadership role to guide a data team of 4–10 experienced members in supporting a deployment project focused on successful data migration and conversion delivery. This role also provides support to the project manager by managing diverse data sources and engaging internal and external stakeholders to ensure a smooth migration to a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the data team, manages the internal and external stakeholders and supervises the resources of the data team.

• Collaborates effectively with other delivery teams and the CRAVES implementation partner/SaaS supplier, demonstrating technical leadership skills to ensure successful end-to-end data migration delivery.

• Collaborates with subject matter experts, other delivery teams, and the CRAVES implementation partner/SaaS supplier to identify, define, collate, document, and communicate data migration requirements, ensuring the arrangement of discovery sessions for current and future state analysis.

• Provides support and guidance to business users, supports all reporting needs and data profiling.

• Identifies project deliverables and required tasks based on migration requirements and supports the project manager in developing the project plan for data migration delivery.

• Identifies and engages Data Trustees and Stewards for all in-scope domains and parts of government.

• Creates and maintains an inventory of all legacy data and file assets.

• Using a collaborative approach, develops the data migration strategy, validates it, manages the approval process for the strategy, develops a detailed plan based on the strategy, and ensures successful implementation.

• Develops data migration specifications, including data mapping and translation, identifies data for cleansing, and oversees the data cleansing process.

• Defines performance indicators and quality metrics, ensuring compliance with data-related policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities, as well as adoption requirements.

• Works closely with the implementation partner/SaaS supplier to review the conversion specification and align the project team with it.

• Works closely with the project’s integration team to identify data migration requirements for integrated systems and consults with and aligns the owners of those respective systems with the implementation partner/SaaS supplier’s migration activities.

• Identifies and sets up tools for data extraction, transformation, and cleansing; demonstrates the ability to write and execute scripts to extract data as part of an automated, repeatable process.

• Establishes data governance for the project life cycle.

• Reviews legacy data and file quality, identifies issues and gaps, analyzes them, and recommends remedial approaches.

• Leads the project team in collecting and consolidating all existing business rules information from the core data source and its connected nodes for future mapping in the core data source.

• Monitors and evaluates data migration activities in each project stage.

• Works across multiple functional teams to understand data usage and implications for data migration.

• Produces a list of risks and milestones, ensures the delivery quality and manages decisions with business sign-off.

• Manages assigned risks and monitors potential impacts as part of the data migration plan.

• Develops best practices, processes, and standards for effectively carrying out data migration activities.

• Possesses a thorough understanding of data reconciliation and the process of reconciling migrated data with source data.

• Performs migration and testing of both static and transactional data.

• Performs data migration audit, reconciliation, and exception reporting.

• Works closely with the business lead and the project manager to prioritize business and project needs.

• Prepares regular data migration status reports.

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About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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Job Number: 12156