Data Migration Specialist

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Data Migration Specialist for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Richmond, VA.

*This position is hybrid; 2-3 days/week will be onsite.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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 stand-ups 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 EDW 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 a 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 IT and the Data cleansing/migration initiative at meetups with internal and external partners
• Retrieve data from the database or electronic files as requested.
• Validate post-migration results and communicate outcome with Office Leadership and Business Stakeholders, Key External Reporting Stakeholders, and CO Security.
• Verify data by comparing it to source documents.
• Write validation scripts to run over the Staging tables to report any invalid data.

Required Skills:

• 6 Years - Proficiency in data extraction and transformation tools
• 7 Years - Strong SQL querying and scripting skills
• 6 Years - Knowledge of, and Experience with ELT/ETL processes
• 7 Years - Familiarity with data modeling and database design principles
• 7 Years - Understanding of data warehousing concepts and practices
• 7 Years - Experience with data migration in large-scale enterprise environments
• 7 Years - Understanding of data synchronization and replication techniques
• 6 Years - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• 7 Years - Critical thinking and decision-making skills
• 6 Years - Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively

Desired Skills:

• 2 Years - Expertise in AWS
• 2 Years - Expertise in Snowflake

This position is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.