Data Migration Project Manager – PropTech Start-Up
London + Significant UK travel during kick-off and data-mapping phases of each integration
To £70,000 – Full-time
Our client is a VC-backed, AI-enabled acquirer of property services businesses – the UK’s first roll-up of its kind in residential block management. They have completed their first wave of acquisitions, with more in the pipelin
e.Every acquisition brings a data migration. Different systems, different standards, different levels of rigour. Until now, this work has been spread across several people managing it alongside their day jobs. They are hiring one dedicated owner to run it end to e
nd.
The
RoleThe successful candidate will be the single person responsible for data migration across all acquisitions – from kick-off through to go-live. They will work to a circa 60-day migration standard, driving to that timeline and compressing it where poss
ible.This is not a pure coordination role. Around 80% of a migration can be automated; the remaining 20% is hands-on data work – and this person will be doing it. Profiling messy source data, making field-mapping calls, chasing down shadow systems, validating records line by
line.The role sits at the centre of a three-way relationship: acquired businesses, an external migration platform partner, and internal product, finance and operations
teams.
What Yo
- u Will DoOwn each migration end to end – kick-off, data discovery, mapping, sandbox review
- , go-liveBe the single point of contact across acquired businesses, the migration partner, and inter
- nal teamsBuild a data-requirements playbook so requirements are captured upfront, not
- piecemealCapture institutional knowledge from key people before they transition out post-c
- ompletionRefine templates, standards and checklists after every migration, working toward a single repeatable
- approachAt scale, run two to three migrations con
currentlyWhat They Are L
- ooking ForTechnically comfortable with data structures, field mapping, transformation logic and source systems – able to lead a data conversation without needing to be a softwar
- e engineerProfiles that tend to fit: data analyst, technical PM, systems/implementation specialist, data migration or conversion
- specialistOrganised across parallel workstreams and methodical unde
- r pressureA strong relationship builder – able to build trust quickly inside a business they have only just walked into, from branch staff t
- o foundersWilling to do the unglamorous 20% personally rather than h
- and it offHappy to travel during intensive kick-off and mapp
ing phasesB
- onus PointsExperience in property, block management, financial services or other data-hea
- vy servicesExperience inside an acquisitive or roll-up oper
- ating modelFamiliarity with data migration tooling or working alongside a migration platf
orm partnerWhat
- Is On OfferA pivotal early hire role in one of the UK’s most ambitious PropTec
- h businessesHigh autonomy and direct exposure to founders and functi
- onal leaders£50,000 – £
- 70,000 basicAll travel expe
nses covered…