Data Conversion Lead

Oracle Cloud Applications | Senior Delivery Role

Position Summary Lead the end-to-end data conversion workstream for Oracle Cloud implementations, from strategy and mapping through testing, reconciliation, cutover, and production validation.

About Highstreet

Highstreet helps public sector organizations modernize through Oracle Cloud technology and services. With more than 30 years of public sector experience, we combine deep Oracle expertise with a client-focused approach to delivering successful transformations. We offer a progressive work environment along with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. highstreetit.com

Position Overview

The Data Conversion Lead is responsible for leading the strategy, planning, design, execution, testing, and validation of data migration activities required to transition customer data from legacy systems into Oracle Cloud Applications. This senior delivery role works closely with functional, technical, integration, reporting, and project leadership teams to ensure data is accurately mapped, transformed, loaded, reconciled, and approved throughout the implementation lifecycle.

The Data Conversion Lead is accountable for the quality, completeness, and readiness of converted data across testing cycles and production cutover, while providing clear leadership to onshore and offshore conversion resources and customer data owners.

Key Responsibilities

Data Conversion Strategy & Planning

• Develop and manage the overall data conversion strategy, approach, plan, schedule, and governance model.
• Define conversion scope, methodologies, standards, templates, controls, and repeatable delivery processes.
• Identify source systems, conversion objects, data dependencies, sequencing, ownership, and acceptance criteria.
• Align conversion cycles with configuration, integration, testing, reconciliation, and deployment milestones.
• Identify conversion risks, dependencies, and issues and drive timely resolution with project leadership.

Data Mapping, Transformation & Migration

• Lead data discovery, profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, and migration activities.
• Coordinate mapping of legacy data structures and business rules to Oracle Cloud data requirements.
• Oversee the development and execution of data extraction, transformation, and load processes using approved Oracle Cloud tools and templates.
• Ensure conversion specifications, mapping documents, data dictionaries, and decision logs remain complete and current.
• Partner with functional leads and customer data owners to resolve data gaps, mapping questions, and business-rule discrepancies.

Testing, Validation & Reconciliation

• Lead mock conversions and data migration activities across system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and production-readiness cycles.
• Define reconciliation and validation procedures to confirm the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of converted data.
• Coordinate functional and customer validation of conversion results and required sign-offs.
• Track conversion defects, load errors, reconciliation differences, and data-quality issues through resolution.
• Establish measurable controls and reporting for conversion status, completeness, error rates, and data quality.

Cutover & Production Deployment

• Develop and manage the data conversion portion of the production cutover plan.
• Define conversion sequencing, dependencies, timing, validation checkpoints, rollback considerations, and go/no-go criteria.
• Coordinate final extraction, transformation, loading, reconciliation, and business validation activities.
• Monitor conversion execution during cutover, communicate status, and escalate critical issues promptly.
• Ensure required controls, documentation, approvals, and sign-offs are completed before production go-live.

Team & Delivery Leadership

• Lead onshore and offshore data conversion resources supporting Oracle Cloud implementation projects.
• Assign conversion activities, monitor progress, and manage delivery against scope, quality, and timeline commitments.
• Provide technical and functional guidance to conversion team members and customer resources.
• Establish consistent conversion standards, reusable assets, tools, templates, and quality checkpoints.
• Mentor team members and strengthen organizational data conversion capabilities.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the data conversion workstream.
• Lead data conversion workshops and working sessions with customer business and technical stakeholders.
• Communicate status, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and readiness to project leadership and governance teams.
• Partner with customer data owners to drive data cleansing, validation, remediation, and sign-off activities.
• Collaborate with project managers, solution architects, functional leads, integration teams, and reporting teams to maintain alignment.

Sales & Solution Support

• Represent data conversion capabilities during sales presentations, discovery sessions, and solutioning activities.
• Estimate conversion scope, effort, staffing, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Contribute data conversion content, estimates, and assumptions to proposals and Statements of Work (SOWs).

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience leading data conversion or data migration workstreams for enterprise application implementations.
• Hands-on knowledge of data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Applications conversion methods, file-based data loads, and related migration tools and templates.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing multiple mock conversion cycles and production cutover.
• Ability to translate functional requirements and business rules into clear conversion specifications.
• Experience leading distributed teams and coordinating customer, functional, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, issue-resolution, documentation, and executive-status reporting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM, Payroll, Financials, Procurement, or related modules.
• Experience supporting public-sector, education, or other complex, highly regulated implementations.
• Knowledge of SQL, ETL concepts, data-quality tools, and structured reconciliation methods.
• Experience contributing to implementation proposals, estimates, staffing plans, and SOW development.

Expected Outcomes

• Accurate, complete, reconciled, and approved data converted into Oracle Cloud Applications.
• Successful execution of mock conversions, testing cycles, cutover, and production validation.
• Timely identification and resolution of data-quality, mapping, conversion, and reconciliation issues.
• Clear accountability and collaboration across customer, functional, technical, and project teams.
• Repeatable conversion methods, templates, controls, and tools that improve delivery speed and quality.
• A capable, mentored data conversion team positioned to support future Oracle Cloud implementations.

Employment Type / Location / Travel

• Full-time, permanent position.
• Travel to the client site Monday through Thursday may be required.

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