At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data migration projects from start to finish, ensuring smooth integrations across acquisitions.
- Company: Join a VC-backed group revolutionising the UK property services sector with AI.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, travel opportunities, and a chance to shape the future of data migration.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for professional growth and hands-on involvement.
- Why this job: Take ownership of data migration and make a significant impact in a fast-growing company.
- Qualifications: Project management experience and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 70000 £ per year.
A VC-backed group building an AI-enabled roll-up in the UK property services sector is hiring a Data Migration Project Manager to own data migration across every acquisition. This is a newly created role and the single dedicated owner of data migration across the group. Today the work is split thinly across several people who each handle a slice alongside their day job, and it's slowing integrations down. You'll own it end to end, running each migration as a disciplined project from kick-off through data mapping and sandbox review to go-live, working closely with an external migration platform partner and stakeholders inside each acquired business.
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000
Location: UK-based, London preferred, with significant UK travel during the kick-off and data-mapping phases of each integration.
What you’ll be doing:
- Own each acquired business's data migration end to end, from kick-off to go-live, against a tight timeline (typically around 60 days).
- Set up access, establish extraction and transformation pipelines with the external migration partner and lead the field-mapping decisions.
- Profile messy source data, surface the spreadsheets and shadow systems that always exist, and validate records line by line.
- Act as the single point of contact between the acquired business, the migration platform partner and internal product, finance, and operations teams.
- Build the data requirements playbook so future data needs are mapped upfront rather than collected piecemeal.
- Capture data and context from key staff before they leave the business post-acquisition.
- Refine templates, mapping standards and checklists migration by migration, driving towards one repeatable approach across the group.
What you’ll need:
- Proven project management experience running structured workstreams against tight timelines with third-party partners and multiple stakeholders.
- Technical enough to lead a data conversation and make sound mapping decisions, comfortable with data structures, field mapping, transformation logic and source systems.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to profile, validate and clean data hands-on rather than handing it off.
- Highly organised across parallel workstreams without losing detail, with the capability to run two or three migrations concurrently at scale.
- Strong communicator across all levels, from branch staff to founders, able to build trust quickly inside a business you’ve only just walked into.
- Comfortable with the unglamorous manual work that can’t be automated.
- Resilient and willing to be on the road during intensive kick-off and mapping phases.
This role would suit a hands-on project manager who wants real ownership of how the migration engine gets built across a fast-growing, acquisitive group.
Data Migration Manager in City of London employer: Digital Waffle
Join a dynamic and innovative VC-backed group at the forefront of the AI-enabled property services sector, where you will have the unique opportunity to lead data migration projects end-to-end. With a strong emphasis on employee growth and a collaborative work culture, this role offers significant travel opportunities across the UK, allowing you to engage directly with various stakeholders while making a tangible impact on the company's integration processes. Enjoy a competitive salary and the chance to shape the future of data management in a fast-paced environment that values your expertise and initiative.
