JOB TITLE: DATA MIGRATION CONSULTANT
DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC FINANCE
REPORTING TO: PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGER
BASED AT: GHANA
ABOUT FARSIGHT GROUP:
Farsight Africa Group is a leading full-service Pan-African communications company that delivers public finance management services and impactful solutions to companies, governments, development organizations and individuals across East Africa.
Farsight Africa Group has established a reputation in the marketplace for working in complex and challenging environments that demand a comprehensive understanding of local cultures, indigenous communication practices and relationships with stakeholders at both the grassroots and national level.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Data Migration Responsibilities:
- Execute the data migration process from end to end
- Analyze, extract, manipulate and migrate information and data from legacy case management systems, into the application to be developed
- Analyze data in legacy formats and validate data sets to ensure data consistency and internal requirements are met
- Coordinate with all impacted source-system, and IT teams to ensure integration points are managed and involved
- Perform technical validation of extracted and uploaded data to ERP systems
- Responsible for the conversion of client data from various sources, including document management systems, records management systems and matter management systems
- Develop procedures, scripts and utilities for conversion processes that transforms the data to meet business requirements
- Provide Statistical reports of data moved, transformed, cleansed and loaded
- Coordinate and develop test flows for QA of the data migration
- Communicate with all disciplines to ensure flow of data set before roll out
- Manage patch notes and roll out process
- Manage version locks and import tools
- Schedule roll outs that affect the live game
- Monitor design and code changes
Project Management Responsibilities:
- To liaise with our clients to ascertain what specific data they require to have transferred, customizing it to their needs
- Design the data migration process, test, and migrate data into a target environment from a multitude of data sources to satisfy customer requirements
- Provide the data migration plan for approval to the customer
- Confirm with customer data migration techniques and methodologies to be used, adjust as necessary to adhere to any restrictions and limitations for use of technology, tools
- To collaborate within dynamic project teams, to facilitate the build and delivery of workflow solutions utilizing an approved case management application, to both new and existing clients
- Partner with the customer and implementation managers to ensure the most efficient migration of different types of legacy data
- Document, review, and confidently communicate project deliverables to stakeholders and internal team members
- Identify risks that could impact a successful migration
- Analyzing, documenting and communicating migration details following implementation to take a constructive approach to continuous improvement
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor degree in IT, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Business, Finance or any other related disciplines.
- At least 5 years of experience working in a data migration position.
- Position largely based in Ghana
- Thorough knowledge of databases, HTML or content management
- Successfully completed three (3) projects involving migration of large data sets from legacy systems to a new application.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with an emphasis on managing completion of tasks by non-direct reports
- Good understanding on the agile approach, leveraging best practices and implementing/documenting repeatable processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent communication skills working with people of various levels
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects with a high attention to detail, while maintaining excellent quality and superior customer service
- Experience working in a matrix organization with teams that may be virtual in nature
- Flexibility working in a dynamic environment
- Understanding the importance of maintaining positive client relationships throughout and beyond the project process
- Self-management in working within multiple concurrent projects
How to apply
Kindly send your application letter and CV to jobs@farsightafrica.com before 20th May 2022.
Applications shall be reviewed on a rolling basis until the right candidate has been selected.