Sr. Data Migration SME

Category: Analytics and Emerging Digital Technologies

Main location: United States, Alabama, Huntsville

Position ID:J0826-2017

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Data Migration IT Subject Matter Expert to lead the end-to-end migration of highly sensitive, mission-critical datasets as part of a national-priority modernization initiative. This senior expert will architect, oversee, and validate all technical aspects of migrating large-scale, multi-format data-including ELSUR/FISA holdings-from multiple legacy environments into a unified, secure, modern data platform.

This role plays a central part in ensuring accuracy, integrity, accessibility, and secure handling of historical mission data. The Senior IT SME will lead strategies that modernize legacy systems, preserve high-value information, and guarantee seamless interoperability within new cloud-enabled environments supporting long-term mission success.

Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Lead the full lifecycle migration of sensitive mission data-including ELSUR/FISA-from multiple legacy systems and storage solutions into a consolidated, modern data platform.
• Ensure the successful migration of all data, metadata, and user-applied markings, preserving historical integrity and operational relevance.
• Oversee the accurate, secure, and seamless transfer of structured, unstructured, audio, text, and multi-format datasets into new cloud-aligned environments.
• Validate accessibility, searchability, and correct rendering of migrated data in the new system's UI, APIs, and analytic components.
• Architect and refine ETL pipelines, data ingestion workflows, transformation logic, and metadata handling standards.
• Engineer and evaluate database systems that support high-volume mission data, complex metadata structures, lineage tracking, and compliance requirements.
• Lead risk identification, mitigation, and quality assurance related to data integrity, security, and migration performance.
• Collaborate with system owners, mission stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure operational readiness and mission alignment.
• Provide technical oversight, documentation, and validation required for Transition-In, Technical Approach, RTM, and CVM deliverables.
• Demonstrate, through work products and results, expertise developed from successful execution of large-scale, enterprise migration projects

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Due to the nature of this government contract, US Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 9+ years of professional experience in data migration, data engineering, and enterprise database engineering.
• Demonstrated experience executing large-scale, multi-system data migration projects, ideally involving complex metadata, markings, and sensitive data controls.
• Expertise designing and operating ETL pipelines, ingestion frameworks, transformation logic, and multi-tier data architectures.
• Deep knowledge of data lineage, metadata propagation, marking preservation, and secure data-handling workflows.

Desired:
• Experience migrating sensitive, multi-format datasets in high-security operational environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms and managed database services.
• Background in modernizing or refactoring legacy mission systems.

What you can expect from us:

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