Data Migration Specialist

Location: Petersburg, VA
Position Type: Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week
Contract Length: 6 months

Position Overview:
The Data Migration Specialist will lead the transformation and migration of data from legacy systems to modern platforms as part of a modernization initiative. This role requires on-site presence 2-3 days a week, with responsibilities ranging from data cleansing and validation to designing and executing migration processes while ensuring compliance and data integrity.

Duties:

• 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
• 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 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 key stakeholders.
• 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 of experience with data extraction and transformation tools
• 7 years of strong SQL querying and scripting skills
• 6 years of experience with ELT/ETL processes
• 7 years of familiarity with data modeling and database design principles
• 7 years of understanding of data warehousing concepts and practices
• 7 years of experience with data migration in large-scale enterprise environments
• 7 years of experience with data synchronization and replication techniques
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively

Preferred Skills:

• 2 years of experience in AWS
• 2 years of experience with Snowflake