Data Engineer at Impactive IT, England, £350-£400 per day

Data Migration Engineer | UK Remote | NPPV3 Required | No Sponsorship

Enterprise Data Migration | SQL | Public Sector | Remote

We're supporting a major UK public sector transformation programme and are looking for 2 experienced Data Migration Engineers to join the team on a 9-month contract (Outside IR35).

If you've successfully delivered large-scale enterprise data migration projects and enjoy solving complex data challenges, we'd love to hear from you. This role centres around migrating data from legacy systems into a modern public safety platform, ensuring data integrity, quality and accuracy throughout the migration lifecycle.

📍 Location: Remote (UK)

💰 £350-£400 Outside IR35

⏰ 9-month contract - probable extension

What You'll Be Doing

Your primary focus will be delivering end-to-end data migration activities, including:

• Leading data analysis across legacy and target systems
• Profiling data and identifying quality issues before migration
• Defining and validating data mappings
• Writing complex SQL queries to extract, transform and reconcile data
• Supporting migration planning, execution and validation
• Investigating and resolving migration and data quality issues
• Producing migration documentation, mapping specifications and validation reports
• Working closely with technical teams, business stakeholders and customers to ensure successful migration outcomes

Essential Experience

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:

✅ Significant experience delivering enterprise-scale data migration projects from planning through to delivery

✅ Strong SQL skills, including:

• Complex joins
• Data extraction
• Data transformation
• Data validation
• Data reconciliation

✅ Experience with:

• Data mapping
• Migration planning
• Data quality assessment
• Legacy system migrations

✅ Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

✅ Experience working with sensitive or regulated datasets

Highly Desirable

⭐ Previous experience within Public Safety, Policing, Criminal Justice, Government or similarly regulated environments

⭐ Experience with Form.io or similar low-code data capture platforms

Mandatory Requirements

To be considered you must have:

🔒 Current NPPV3 Clearance

🇬🇧 Minimum 5 years continuous UK residency

✅ Right to work in the UK

This is an opportunity to work on one of the UK's most important digital transformation programmes, helping deliver a complex enterprise data migration where data accuracy, governance and quality are absolutely critical. If data migration is your specialism and you've delivered complex migration programmes before, we'd love to hear from you.