Data Conversion Lead

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level E

Job Title

Data Conversion Lead

Department

OCIO | Program Delivery | PMO Delivery

Compensation Range

$9,859.25 - $15,380.75 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

November 9, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Ongoing

This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Office of the CIO (OCIO) has an extensive list of investment requests for IT enabled projects from across the University of British Columbia. The execution of the portfolio of projects extends out over at least the next five years, and new projects are being added on a regular basis. The execution of each project within the portfolio is approximately one year and most resources from each project will transition onto the next projects upon completion of the delivery of each project. These projects will be managed within the Program Delivery Office (PMO). The Program Delivery office is seeking a Data Conversion Lead to support the usability and outcomes of these projects.

Working closely with Senior Project Managers, and in relation to assigned IT Capital Projects, the Data Conversion Lead will work collaboratively with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and the Integration Enablement Center (IEC) to implement large-scale Data Migration/Conversion solutions. The incumbent will focus on the design and implementation of Data Migration/Conversion processes and components including Data Quality analysis, Master Data Management, Data Retention strategies and workflows, Data Cleansing strategies and workflows, Data Augmentation, Data Mapping using logical and physical data models, ETLs for Data Migration/Conversion strategies and workflows, and Data Reconciliation strategies and workflows.

The incumbent will work closely with end users, analysts, technical leads, managers, and developers to Clean, Augment and Migrate millions of UBC-related records. The applicant will understand complex data, relationships, and dependencies inherent in enterprise-class systems and understand how translate these complexities into high quality data migration solutions.

This is a hands-on delivery role within a multi-disciplinary technical and business team.

Organizational Status

The Data Conversion Lead reports to Senior PMO Delivery Manager, Program Delivery Office and works closely with the Chief Data Officer, Enterprise Data Governance Team. The Incumbent will also be accountable for results to the OCIO Executive and Senior Leadership while working closely with stakeholders and senior colleagues from the UBC IT technical leadership group as well as other units within the University. The incumbent will ensure that all proposed solutions are aligned with the business needs, project constraints and university data model, enterprise architecture standards and any project related exceptions are managed in an informed manner. In addition, the incumbent will ensure that formal project management methodologies established by UBC IT's Program Delivery Office (PMO) are followed.

Work Performed

Specific Duties:- Leads the evaluation and selection process of software products for the data migration projects, and advises on options, risk, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals.- Serve as a conversion specialist for functional teams to help define, estimate, and propose solutions for functional opportunities.- Develop proofs-of-concept and prototypes to help illustrate approaches to technology and functional problems.- Define detailed standards for the integration/migration approach for data, and data structure conventions.- Define standards, structures, and techniques for capturing data from sources, cleansing, and integrating data.- Work with the lead architect on the overall ETL conversion design - conceptual, logical, and physical representations.- Works with UBC IT architects to provide input into both the Application and Technical architecture as they relate to software developmen