Project Manager - Core Banking Data Migration

Overview

Vistas Global is searching for an accomplished Project Manager to steer comprehensive data migration efforts in a major Temenos T24 Core Banking Transformation initiative. This role centers on directing the entire data migration lifecycle, encompassing strategy formulation, ETL operations, mapping, governance, quality control, reconciliation, cutover planning, and validating post-migration success.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee leadership of the Data Workstream within Core Banking transformation programs, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Design and implement detailed data migration strategies and schedules.
• Manage timelines, critical milestones, risk factors, interdependencies, and deliverables effectively.
• Collaborate extensively with business units, IT, infrastructure teams, and external vendors.
• Communicate project progress, challenges, and issues to senior leadership and steering committees.
• Drive extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) activities across data domains such as customer, account, loan, deposit, payment, and transaction records.
• Administer data mapping, transformation logic, and conversion to ensure accurate migration.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, perform data cleansing, enrichment, validation, and maintain data quality metrics.
• Manage data profiling, lineage documentation, and reconciliation to secure regulatory compliance.
• Create source-to-target mapping documents, validate business rules, and coordinate with ETL developers to ensure seamless transformation.
• Lead thorough reconciliation exercises throughout migration phases, assuring data completeness and integrity, resolving discrepancies collaboratively.
• Plan and execute migration cutover including mock runs and rollback strategies, facilitating post-go-live stabilization.
• Engage and manage stakeholders across business users, core banking teams, data architects, system integrators, and vendors to align efforts and assure quality.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), migration validation cycles, and production deployment including hypercare support.
• Identify risks related to migration activities, devise mitigations, ensure adherence to banking regulations and audit standards, and maintain comprehensive documentation.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Banking, or a closely related field.
• A minimum of 10 years' experience in banking technology and data migration environments.
• Demonstrable leadership of Core Banking Data Migration initiatives, ideally with Temenos T24 exposure.
• Strong background in ETL design, development, and large-scale migration methodologies.
• Experience handling enterprise transformation programs and multi-vendor coordination.
• Expertise in migration planning, cutover execution, and compliance with regulatory and audit requirements.