Data Migration Specialist

Job Title: Data Migration Specialist
Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid: 2-3 days per week in office)
Duration: 6+ Months (Possible Extension)
Interviews: Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

Position Description: A Data Migration Specialist is a professional who specializes in the movement of data from one system or platform to another.

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