Technical Lead - Data Migration (9-12 Month Contract)

Technical Lead - Data Migration

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 9-12 Months

Location: London

On site requirement: 2dpw in central London office

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity. 

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Role: 

The Solution Lead will be accountable for the strategy, planning, and technical execution of a complex, large-scale data migration initiative alongside the Head of Technical Delivery. This role is crucial for ensuring a robust solution is developed to transition data from a legacy data centre to the target modern data environment. The Lead will be responsible for defining the migration framework, leading a specialised offshore team, ensuring data integrity, and managing the migration approach.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Technical Oversight & Assurance
• Acts as a technical escalation point across multiple squads 
• Guides teams through complex engineering decisions and trade-offs 
• Ensures technical consistency and quality across deliverables 
• Provide an approach to ensure technical quality
• Architecture & Design  
• Responsible for the technical data migration strategy and overall approach
• Collaborates with Solution Architects and technical leads to translate architecture into actionable technical designs 
• Consider iterative options to deliver value incrementally (e.g. early migration of components or reduced-risk delivery)
• Approves, Reviews and validates designs across teams 
• Ensures alignment with platform strategy and goals 
• Delivery Leadership (shared two in a box with Head of Delivery) 
• Define and manage the end-to-end scope, ensuring all applications, infrastructure, data, and associated business processes are accounted for
• Supports programme planning and ensures leads of dependent workstreams are aligned
• Supports agile delivery through technical planning and work decomposition 
• Identifies and resolves technical bottlenecks and blockers 
• Proactively identifies and mitigates technical risks
• Manages shared engineering resources and cross-team dependencies 
• Team Support  
• Provides informal coaching and mentoring to senior engineers
• Continued assessment of team to ensure the right skills are in place for success
• Encourages technical ownership and accountability 
• Stakeholder Management
• Act as the primary technical contact for the migration workstream.
• Clearly communicate complex technical challenges, progress, and dependencies to the Programme Manager, business stakeholders, and other workstream leads
• Supports onboarding and integration of new engineers 

Ideal Profile 

• Experience migrating from large-scale legacy mainframes or data appliances.
• Prior experience in a heavily regulated industry, such as Banking
• A Senior technology consultant or architecture background with delivery leadership experience 
• Strong understanding of agile engineering practices and tooling 
• Able to operate across multiple tech stacks and domains 
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct line management 
• Cloud & Platform knowledge and experience
• Experience working with and managing and in holding 3rd party suppliers to account

Joining AND

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

• We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
• Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.