Data Scientist - Migration Intelligence
Company: Datafold
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $155,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-02
About this role
## About the Role
Data Scientist - Migration Intelligence
Datafold, Inc. - Brooklyn, NY
May telecommute from the continental U.S.
## What You’ll Do
- Evaluate third-party tools, platforms, and emerging technologies relevant to data migration, data infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows, including technical benchmarking and integration feasibility analysis, and build-versus-buy assessment.
- Develop and apply quantitative models and analytical frameworks to assess migration risk, predict data quality issues, and validate data consistency across source and target database environments throughout migration project delivery.
- Coordinate end-to-end delivery of customer data migration projects, including scoping, sequencing, milestone planning, risk identification, dependency management, and cross-functional execution across internal teams, customers, and external partners.
- Design, build, and maintain internal data pipelines and supporting infrastructure that integrate diverse structured and unstructured data sources for analytics and reporting and operational use cases.
- Develop repeatable analytical playbooks, migration frameworks, and data-driven operational accelerators based on hands-on project delivery experience.
- Implement data quality monitoring, automated regression validation, and lineage analysis workflows using Python and SQL to support platform development and customer migration engagements.
- Evaluate cloud and multi-cloud data environments for cost efficiency, reliability, and integration risk, producing analytical recommendations that inform architectural and sourcing decisions.
- Implement data models, dashboards, and internal reporting structures that unify multiple sources of information into actionable insights for product, sales, and operational teams.
- Support technology partnerships and external cooperation efforts by assessing integration opportunities and coordinating the technically sound implementation of partner solutio...