Senior Data Migration Specialist

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Senior Data Migration Specialist leading secure EMR migrations for WELLSTAR’s Canadian healthcare platforms. Improving data tools, validation, governance, and go-live readiness.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead complex, high-value EMR conversions for multi-location practices and enterprise healthcare organizations
  • Identify risks early, guide data strategy, and serve as escalation point for migration complexity
  • Design and maintain scripts, tools, reusable approaches, and validation standards
  • Build repeatable approaches that reduce manual effort and improve migration consistency
  • Represent Implementation in Product and Engineering discussions regarding import capabilities, integrations, and platform improvements
  • Evolve the migration playbook, including mapping standards, validation methods, cutover planning, documentation, and compliance-conscious data handling
  • Ensure secure, accurate, auditable migration work aligned with PHI, HIPAA, SOC 2, and internal expectations
  • Mentor junior and mid-level specialists and strengthen technical practices
  • Help shape the migration team’s capacity, operating model, and future leadership structure
  • Track and report migration outcomes including data accuracy, timeline adherence, rework, automation gains, and delivery risk
  • Partner with implementation team members, vendors, clinic administrators, physicians, and technical customer contacts across test migrations, data validation, final migrations, issue resolution, and go-live readiness
  • Support migration windows that may occasionally fall outside standard business hours

Requirements:

  • Strong experience working with EMR, EHR, practice management, healthcare data, or similar data migration environments
  • Direct EMR migration experience highly preferred, especially with TELUS Health PSS, CHR, Med Access, Avaros, Accuro, Oscar Pro, Juno, or similar Canadian EHR systems
  • Understanding of extraction, transformation, mapping, validation, and final load processes
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Experience with scripts, tools, or technical processes supporting accurate and efficient data movement
  • Experience working with, improving, or building tools for data migration, validation, reporting, or repeatable data processes
  • Experience with Python or a comparable language, Git, ETL tooling, cloud platforms, or CI/CD pipelines is an asset
  • Understanding of sensitive healthcare or other highly regulated data handling
  • Sound judgment regarding data access, privacy, validation, documentation, and secure handling
  • Customer-facing communication skills with internal teams, vendors, clinic administrators, physicians, and technical customer stakeholders
  • Ownership, maturity, and collaborative approach
  • May have mentored others, supported junior team members, led project work, or acted as an escalation point
  • Legally eligible to work in Canada on an ongoing basis

Benefits:

  • Opportunity to influence a high-impact function in Canadian healthcare technology
  • Opportunity to improve migration tools, scripts, workflows, and repeatable approaches
  • Meaningful mission supporting healthcare providers and patient care
  • Opportunity to mentor others and contribute to the future structure of the migration function
  • Inclusive and accessible workplace
  • Accommodations available upon request throughout the selection process