Job Title: Data Migration Specialist (HYBRID)
Location: Richmond VA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The following list describes the typical responsibilities and deliverables of a Data Migration Specialist:
- Transform and load data into the respective data warehouse for a modernization initiative.
- Transform data to meet target system requirements
- Translate functional requirements into technical specifications for ETL development.
- Troubleshoot and resolve data migration issues
- Validate and analyze data sets to ensure data consistency and internal requirements are met.
- Analyze the Client Legacy data data quality rules business rules data dictionaries
- Analyze prepare and execute data cleansing services.
- Analyze specify and document data migration requirements with clients and internal teams.
- Articulate how Legacy data will be cleansed and adapted to fit into the new Future solution.
- Assist others with the selection of approaches methods and / or services as required.
- Attend Project standups and Stakeholder meetings
- Champion standards and implementation process that you define with the team.
- Collaborate with data architects to design data migration solutions
- Collaborate with the IMS Business customers and the Client Team ensuring quicker and more accurate data management.
- Complete assigned tasks in an organized manner to ensure project deadlines.
- Develop and execute data migration process and procedures (from analysis to post implementation) including scripts and programs
- Develop and execute test plans to ensure client requirements are fulfilled.
- Contribute to the release and cutover strategy.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to gather requirements and system assessments as it related to data.
- Create and maintain utilities SQL scripts as needed to accelerate the process.
- Ensure adherence to compliance needs for the agency.
- Implement new Mapping and ETL scripts.
- Lead data cleaning and dedupe program to drive accurate and complete data.
- Maintain appropriate levels of data security and privacy relating to customer data.
- Ensure documentation are created an maintained to enable migration process and post implementation support.
- Create and Monitor data migration progress and build dashboards to support audit reconciliation and verification
- Perform regular backups to ensure data preservation.
- Propose a data migration and reconciliation strategy.
- Represent the Client IT and the Data cleansing/migration initiative at meetups with the Client internal and external partners
- Retrieve data from the database or electronic files as requested.
- Validate postmigration results and communicate outcome with Key the Client Central Office Leadership and Business Stakeholders Key External the Client Reporting Stakeholders CO Security VITA and the Client.
- Verify data by comparing it to source documents.
- Write validation scripts to run over the Staging tables to report any invalid data.
Skills:
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
Proficiency in data extraction and transformation tools | Required | 6 | Years |
Strong SQL querying and scripting skills | Required | 7 | Years |
Knowledge of and Experience with ELT/ETL processes | Required | 6 | Years |
Familiarity with data modeling and database design principles | Required | 7 | Years |
Understanding of data warehousing concepts and practices | Required | 7 | Years |
Experience with data migration in largescale enterprise environments | Required | 7 | Years |
Understanding of data synchronization and replication techniques | Required | 7 | Years |
Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities | Required | 6 | Years |
Critical thinking and decisionmaking skills | Required | 7 | Years |
Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively | Required | 6 | Years |
Expertise in AWS | Desired | 2 | Years |
Expertise in Snowflake | Desired | 2 | Years |