At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead safe and efficient migrations for clients onto EML’s Arlo platform.
- Company: Join EML Payments, a global fintech leader transforming payment solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and client success.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of digital change in the fast-paced fintech industry.
- Qualifications: Experience in large-scale migrations and strong risk management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
EML Payments is a global leader in the fintech space. Our mission is to create awesome, instant, and secure payment solutions that connect our customers to their customers, anytime, anywhere, wherever money is in motion. Our Purpose is to inspire transformative digital change for our customers and communities.
Role Purpose
The Migration Programme Lead owns how we migrate, ensuring migrations are safe, well‑planned, and resilient to risk. The Migration Programme Lead is accountable for defining and delivering the end‑to‑end migration strategy, planning framework and cutover execution for transitioning clients and products onto EML’s Arlo platform. The role owns how migrations are executed safely, including migration design, readiness criteria, cutover planning and the identification and mitigation of migration‑specific risks. This includes ensuring that migration considerations — regulatory, operational, data and technical — are explicitly surfaced, planned for and controlled. The role acts as the single point of accountability for migration safety and execution, ensuring migrations are repeatable, auditable and delivered without undue risk to clients, cardholders or the programme.
Key Accountabilities
- Define and own the programme‑level migration strategy, including:
- Migration principles and success criteria
- Migration patterns and sequencing approaches
- Readiness and entry/exit criteria
- Establish a repeatable migration framework that can be applied consistently across clients, regions and products.
Planning, Cutover & Readiness
- Own detailed migration and cutover planning, including:
- Data, ledger, card and transaction migration considerations
- Parallel run and rollback strategies
- Cutover runbooks, rehearsals and dry runs
- Lead go‑live readiness activity and provide clear go / no‑go recommendations based on evidence and risk.
- Proactively identify and manage migration‑specific risks, including:
- Regulatory and compliance risk
- Client and cardholder impact
- Data integrity and reconciliation risk
- Operational readiness and support risk
- Third‑party and vendor dependencies
- Ensure risks are documented, tracked, mitigated and escalated appropriately to Programme and SteerCo forums.
Delivery Governance
- Lead migration governance and assurance, including:
- Readiness checkpoints and reviews
- Clear escalation and decision pathways
- Provide transparent reporting on migration progress, risks and decisions to Programme Leadership.
Cross‑Functional Coordination
- Work closely with:
- Commercial Migration Lead on sequencing feasibility and timing
- Technology and Product teams on build and testing readiness
- Operations on service readiness and support models
- Risk, Compliance and Legal on regulatory requirements
- Act as the authoritative voice on migration safety and execution across the programme.
Required Experience & Skills
- Senior experience leading large‑scale migrations in payments or regulated financial services.
- Demonstrated ownership of migration strategy, cutover planning and risk mitigation.
- Strong understanding of the failure modes and risks of live platform migrations.
- Experience operating at Programme, ELT and SteerCo level.
- Deep knowledge of payments platforms, issuers, processors or ledger‑based systems.
- Experience migrating onto new core or cloud‑based platforms.
Governance & Reporting
Reports into the Programme Director with accountability for migration strategy, planning and execution. Works in close partnership with the Commercial Migration Lead to align migration delivery with client sequencing and communications.
Migration Programme Lead employer: EML
EML is an exceptional employer located in Greater London, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, the company provides comprehensive benefits and flexible hybrid work options, making it an ideal place for professionals seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in project management and technical execution.
