Data Migration Lead

Full Time Fixed Term Position - November 2025 to November 2027

Band 8 - Salary Range $127,546 to $142,788 per annum + 12% Super + ADO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Why join Melton City Council?

Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.

As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.

Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:

• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
• A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities

Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.

The Opportunity

At Melton City Council, we are dedicated to creating a vibrant and liveable city for everyone. As part of the Technology team, we’re seeking a highly skilled Data Migration Lead to plan, design, build, test and deliver the data migration workstream. Working closely with vendors, technical teams, and stakeholders, you'll ensure a seamless transition from multiple legacy systems to the new platform.

Reporting to the TCP Principal Architect, you will be responsible to collaborate across functional teams, to obtain data, analyse and consolidate datasets from various sources, enabling consistent and evidence evidence-based decisions. Additionally, you will apply advanced data analysis techniques to assess performance outcomes, monitor migration progress, and highlight areas for improvement or escalation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end data migration activities with the Data Migration vendor, ensuring data integrity, compliance with industry standard and best practice, and alignment with the ERP implementation while minimising business disruption.
• Assess and analyse the volume and type of data to be migrated and understand the target system requirements, identifying and mapping legacy data to target system based on business rules ensuring its accuracy, consistency, and readiness for migration.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, working collaboratively to ensure that the data migration process is understood and implemented accordingly with standards, practices and legislation.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or related field with relevant experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience and knowledge in large transformation programs including end-to-end data migration, extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), validation, and reconciliation.
• Highly developed understanding of ERP platforms and their data structures, with experience and proficiency in migrations across systems.
• Demonstrated experience in data analysis, data extraction, integrations, conversion, analysis, migration and reporting in a complex environment.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year*
• 5 weeks annual leave*
• Genuine Flexible work options
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• Access to the Local Government Employee Health Plan (GMHBA) with exclusive benefits
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Wellbeing initiatives

• Eligible for Full Time positions or for Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact June Ithier, Senior Project Manager at [email protected].

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any public health orders applicable to local government.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

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