Migration Lead
Remote in Germany
About our client
Handling billions of transactions annually, our client is among the top payment processors in Europe. They keep a tight focus on making it even easier and more intuitive for our customers to handle digital payments and related services. This has made them a trusted partner to more than 700,000 merchant outlets, including 140,000 online merchant outlets, more than 260,000 enterprises, and over 250 banks across Europe.
With our client, you’ll develop in a fast-growing tech company in a high-paced, high-impact market. Here, it’s not just skills and ambition that get the job done, it’s the full package that makes the difference. Together, you will secure critical payments infrastructure and explore domains like biometrics, AI, and voice assistants. Impact the lives of everyone around by powering an easier tomorrow for every citizen, bank, business, and colleague.
Job Description
As our client has a strong pipeline of customer migration projects, their department Customer Implementation is looking for a strong Migration Lead, who knows what it takes to migrate large amounts of data in a timely and secure manner. The Migration Lead will act as a project manager for the migration of one or more customer portfolios. The migration is one deliverable of the total customer program, and the migration lead will report to and work closely with the Program Manager in the project organization.
The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
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Leading all migration-related activities towards the customer and program, including coordinating all related activities and deliverables.
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Being responsible for migration and cutover planning, coordination, and documentation.
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Synchronizing migration dependencies and tasks with overall customer delivery projects and streams.
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Internal and external migration communication, governance, and standards.
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Supporting customer-specific migration and testing strategy and solution.
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Leading customer-specific run book creation and execution.
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Reviewing and considering functional and full cycle testing reports, preparing migration and go-live recommendation reports.
Qualifications
For this role, it is critical that you have vast experience with migrations.
Other qualifications include:
- 10+ years of project management experience, either from internal positions or as a consultant
- Fluent in English and German
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Extensive experience in the Payments industry
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SME on migration methodologies, best practices, and payments processing.
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Experience leading migration projects e.g. Datacenter, Card portfolio, platform & processor migrations
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Knowledge or certification in working with agile methodologies (SAFe)
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Strong communication and leadership skills
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Knowledge of French is an advantage
We are looking forward to your application!
