Assignment Deliverables:
- Provide best practice migration solutions and oversee all facilities of the data and files migration from legacy application to a new solution.
- Establish a strong working relationship with clients, interact effectively at all levels and analyses legacy data and files stored in a variety of data sources and formats.
- Analyze and complete data profiling and suggest any pre migration data cleansing activities.
- Complete data migration strategy, data mapping, define interfaces, perform mock conversion, define enhancements and perform actual conversion.
- Required to translate technical systems specifications into working, tested applications.
- This includes developing detailed programming specifications, writing and/or generating code, compiling data-driven programs, maintaining, and conducting unit tests.
- Resolve and troubleshoot technical problems which arise during the use and operation of software packages, including technical assistance in implementation, conversion and migrations
- Work with importing files from heterogeneous platforms and coordinate data file migration.
- Define testing strategy, plan and conduct testing to ensure data integrity and data comparisons.
- Perform post migration audit and data reconciliation.
- Generate data migration exception reporting and perform data cleansing as required.
- Provides pre- and post-effective conversion support to business clients
Mandatory Requirements:
- Extensive experience in data migration in terms of digital transformation, ETL experience in migrating data from legacy applications to modernized solutions.
- Experience in migrating document attachments from legacy solution to a new modernized solution.
- Experience working in cloud DB technologies (such as Azure SQL) and ETL tools such as Azure Data Factory, Informatica, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in development of business case, data migration strategy and plan.
- Excellent understanding of master data and transactional data concepts and interdependencies.
- Experience working with all steps of data migration activities such as data profiling, data mapping, developing data migration solutions, data validation and audit.
- Proficiency in query languages such as SQL, PL-SQL.
- Familiarity with and construction of complex query statements.
- Knowledge of various database structures and RDMS like Oracle DB and MS SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and write complex SQL queries
- Knowledge and understanding of mainframe data formats, data types, segments and non-relational data structures
- Experience ensuring the data migration solution is scalable.
- Data analysis, investigative and logic skills with high attention to detail
- Experience with migrating file attachments from legacy applications to new solution, data conversion scripts and various ETL tools such as Informatica, Azure Data Factory, etc.
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities, client relationship management experience, Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills
Data Knowledge Expertise Skills:
- 7+ years of experience in developing data conversion and migration
- At least one experience of working with migrating data from different legacy platforms to a new solution.
- Full life-cycle data conversion experience with enterprise systems, including deployment experience.
- Data analysis, investigative and logic skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and solve complex technical problems.
- Experience with overseeing /completing all tasks involved in the conversion process including data extraction, profiling, cleansing, import data, manipulate data, transformation and loading.
- Experience liaising with teams to understand to-be migration requirements.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Experience providing support through the cutover process.
- Knowledge of data model of case management solutions and experience in data migration/conversion of large case management applications.
- Experience with migrating attachment files from legacy applications to new solution and document migration.
- Experience with industry leading ETL tools such as Informatica, Azure Data Factory and cloud technologies.
- Proficiency in query languages such as Oracle SQL, PL-SQL, SQL Server, etc.,
- Exceptional level of knowledge on relationships between tables to perform and construct complex query statements from multiple data sources.
- Experience with data conversion scripts and tools.
- Experience with file migration from different file storages such as Azure BLOB, Azure file share, SharePoint, Oracle BLOBs.
- Experience completing mapping, interfaces, conversion work, data exclusion and inclusion, documentation and verifying completeness and accuracy of converted data, including data dictionary development and updates.
- Experience delivering the required system changes and/or working with the development team or a dedicated conversion team to specify loads programs.
- Provide periodic status reports, present data migration strategy and approach to executives and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience working within an organization of equivalent size and complexity to the Government.
- Experience in working with Architectural artifacts within the Government would be an asset.