Data Migration & Cutover Lead
Location: Houston, TX (on-site, 5 days per week)
Type: Contract
Role Summary
We are looking for a Data Migration & Cutover Lead to be the single accountable lead for data migration, Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) onboarding and production cutover into IMOS for a global energy and trading client. You will lead the migration team and own accurate migration, reconciliation, business acceptance and a low-disruption cutover.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the migration strategy, roadmap, scope, sequencing, governance and acceptance criteria.
- Lead transaction, master and reference data migration, including mapping, transformation, conversion and loading.
- Own IMOS Snowflake onboarding into the client's Enterprise Data Platform and validate downstream reporting and data products.
- Develop the integrated cutover runbook, migration windows, freezes, rollback criteria and contingency plans.
- Lead rehearsals and mock migrations, production execution, hypercare and operational handover.
- Coordinate migration managers, data engineers, business analysts, SMEs, testing teams, vendors and business stakeholders.
Success Measures
- Data migrated and reconciled to agreed criteria.
- Business validation and acceptance completed.
- EDP onboarding delivered with required controls and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Significant enterprise-scale data migration and cutover leadership experience.
- Hands-on experience with transaction, master and reference data migration.
- Experience with enterprise data platform onboarding (e.g., Snowflake) and operational transition.
- Strong governance, executive communication, risk and dependency management skills.
- Experience with IMOS or other trading, shipping or commodity systems is a plus.
- Must be able to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days per week.
Skills Required
- Significant enterprise-scale data migration and cutover leadership experience
- Hands-on experience with transaction, master, and reference data migration
- Experience with enterprise data platform onboarding, such as Snowflake, and operational transition
- Strong governance, executive communication, risk management, and dependency management skills
- Ability to work on-site in Houston, Texas, five days per week
- Experience with IMOS or other trading, shipping, or commodity systems
What We Do
Indigo Beam Consulting represents a common sense approach to solving business problems through technology. Indigo is the most fundamental yet overlooked color of the rainbow. Born out of Bluware Inc., Indigo Beam was conceived as a full-service business consulting company that deeply cares about creating technology solutions that are in harmony with environments in which they exist. We believe that for a technology solution to be sustainable, it has to be congruent with the business processes it serves, indigenously maintainable, and cognizant of the unique traits of the organization which it calls home. Indigo Beam consultants represent a wealth of experience and deep expertise in the Power and Utilities, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and Healthcare Industries. Our reference list represents over twenty five satisfied and long term relationships who are not only clients but part of the Indigo Beam Family.
