1. Data Migration Planning and Cycle Leadership
- Own and drive the data migration workstream across mock migrations, testing cycles, cutover rehearsals and production migration.
- Create and maintain detailed data migration plans covering extraction, mapping, transformation, file preparation, load, validation, reconciliation, defect resolution and rework.
- Define migration milestones, dependencies, entry/exit criteria, ownership and delivery checkpoints for each data object.
- Track migration progress, risks, data defects, decisions and actions, escalating issues that could impact the wider implementation plan.
- Coordinate with programme, customer, functional, technical, testing and business teams while retaining direct ownership of migration delivery.
2. Customer Extraction Requirements and Legacy Data Analysis
- Work closely with customer data/extraction teams to define the exact data required from the legacy system for each Oracle Fusion object.
- Translate Oracle Fusion functional and technical requirements into clear legacy extraction specifications, including required fields, selection criteria, effective dating, historical data rules, filters, defaults and valid values.
- Review customer-generated extracts for completeness, structure, data quality and fitness for migration before transformation and load activities begin.
- Analyse source data to identify duplicates, missing mandatory values, invalid dates, broken relationships, inconsistent codes, referential integrity issues and other migration risks.
- Provide actionable feedback to the customer on extraction issues and support iterative correction of source extracts.
3. Legacy-to-Fusion Mapping and Migration Design
- Create, maintain and mature mapping documents that establish field-level and value-level mappings between legacy systems and Oracle Fusion.
- Document source fields, Fusion target attributes, transformation rules, defaulting logic, lookup/value mappings, effective-date handling, derivation logic and business rules.
- Work with HCM and Payroll functional consultants to confirm target configuration, mandatory attributes, business rules, reference data and downstream dependencies.
- Ensure changes agreed during migration cycles, defect resolution or functional design discussions are reflected in migration mapping and transformation documentation.
- Identify gaps where legacy data cannot directly support Fusion requirements and define pragmatic transformation, cleansing or defaulting approaches with the relevant stakeholders.
4. Hands-on Data Preparation, Transformation and Oracle Fusion Loading
- Prepare Oracle Fusion migration templates and load-ready files from customer-provided legacy extracts.
- Perform data manipulation, transformation, enrichment, formatting and validation using SQL, Excel and other suitable analytical or data-processing tools.
- Create and execute HCM Data Loader (HDL) files and, where appropriate, HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL) or other Oracle-supported loading mechanisms.
- Manage load sequencing and dependencies between related HCM and Payroll objects to ensure data is loaded in the correct order.
- Execute loads in Oracle Fusion, review load status and logs, identify failed records, investigate root causes, correct data or file structures and perform re-loads until agreed acceptance criteria are achieved.
- Differentiate between source-data, mapping, transformation, configuration, environment and load-mechanism issues and route or resolve them appropriately.
- Provide clear technical and business justification for rejected or failed records and recommend the required corrective action.
5. Reconciliation, Validation and Data Quality Assurance
- Develop, modify and execute reconciliation reports comparing source data, prepared migration files and successfully loaded Oracle Fusion data.
- Use SQL and Oracle Fusion reporting tools such as BI Publisher and OTBI to validate migrated data and identify variances.
- Create object-level validation reports covering record counts, key totals, critical attributes, balances, relationships and other business-significant measures.
- Perform detailed analytical review of migration results rather than relying only on load success percentages.
- Investigate reconciliation differences, identify root causes and drive corrective action through source correction, transformation changes, configuration updates or reload.
- Support business validation by supplying clear reports, exception lists, evidence and explanations that enable customer sign-off.
6. Functional, Business and Technical Collaboration
- Partner with Oracle Fusion HCM and Payroll functional consultants to understand configuration, statutory/legislative requirements, functional dependencies and object-specific migration requirements.
- Translate functional requirements into data requirements that customer extraction teams can understand and implement.
- Work directly with business users to clarify legacy data meaning, validate transformation assumptions and resolve data exceptions.
- Collaborate with reporting, integration, security and technical teams where migrated data affects downstream processes or reconciliation.
- Act as the primary data migration point of contact for assigned HCM/Payroll areas and provide confident, evidence-based updates to stakeholders.
7. Migration Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain clear auditability of migration rules, mapping decisions, file versions, load results, reconciliation evidence and outstanding exceptions.
- Establish repeatable migration processes, templates, checklists and quality controls across migration cycles.
- Perform root-cause analysis on recurring migration issues and introduce preventative controls for subsequent cycles.
- Support cutover planning by defining final extraction windows, load sequence, estimated processing activities, reconciliation steps and business sign-off requirements.
- Contribute to migration closure reporting, lessons learned and transition of migration knowledge into support or BAU teams where required.