Senior Data Governance & Migration Lead for an upcoming Government of Nova Scotia opportunity expected to start in October 2026 and run for at least 1 year.

Project Details: Working as a member of a team responsible for delivering Information technology (IT), data, and records management working directly with police agencies and relevant public safety partners to audit and assess the current-state records and data environments ranging from data governance practices to data integration on existing IT systems, and to directly lead the implementation of a comprehensive data standardization, cleaning, and migration plan for both digital and paper records to prepare all agencies for data and records migration to a recent URMS (Unified Records Management System) under The Department of Justice''s Police Modernization Unit.

Specifically looking for someone with hands-on enterprise data migration experience, not a PM, not a cybersecurity resource, not a high-level data architect.





The ideal candidate should have experience with: Legacy system data migrations Data profiling and quality assessment Cleansing, remediation and deduplication Source-to-target mapping and transformation Data validation and reconciliation Metadata, data dictionaries and common standards Data governance, stewardship and business rules Migration sequencing, testing and implementation readiness Working across multiple systems or organizations with inconsistent data Records or information management experience would be an asset Public sector, healthcare, financial services, utilities or other regulated environments would all be relevant.

There may be some onsite work and travel within Nova Scotia.

Preference would be for a local candidate, but out of province can also work.

📌 Sr Data Governance & Migration Lead (Halifax Regional Municipality)
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📍 Halifax Regional Municipality