Data Migration / Applications Specialist
Education Requirements: None, but a degree is preferred or commercial exposure over 3 years.
Experience Requirements: 2 years for junior level, 3 years for intermediate, and 5 years+ for heavy weight.
Industry: Software / Technology
Job Location: Leeds, LS19
Qualifications: None required.
Responsibilities: See below list within spec.
Skills: See below list within spec.
Work Hours: 35 hours – 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Our client is a well-established software solutions provider that offers job security and a prosperous future as new business is currently agreed for fresh implementation and data transfer.
It is becoming increasingly common for clients to migrate their data when changing suppliers. Our client has an exciting opportunity for a permanent and dedicated data migration/application support specialist.
The client offers a wide range of pre-defined migration routines, each bespoke to each client to some extent. They are increasingly seeing additional and multiple data sources that require merging into their systems while consolidating onto one platform from distributed environments.
The ability to extract data and import it into SQL from various data sources is essential, including flat files, Excel, Access, Paradox, Progress, Informix, Firebird SQL, and other legacy 4GL’s and database engines. Once extracted, the data needs to be imported and transformed into the Microsoft SQL database structure.
The client's database currently has approximately 900 tables, with the largest customer production database approaching 1TB.
Your ability to interrogate and interpret SQL data is paramount, as is accuracy and attention to detail. A data conversion must balance to the source database to the penny, as financial transaction tables can typically run into millions.
The desired candidate will need to work closely with other Applications specialists and Technical specialists within the Development and Support teams.
Any experience with Microsoft .Net and/or VB6 (for our legacy applications) would be advantageous, but this is not essential.
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