Data Migration / Applications Specialist
Education Requirements: None but degree preferred or commercial exposure over 3 years.
Experience Requirements: 2 years plus junior level - intermediate 3 years - heavy weight 5 years +.
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 – 9:00am to 5:00pm.
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 implantation and data transfer. It is becoming increasingly common, in modern IT, for clients to want 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 one bespoke to each client to some extent. They are seeing additional and multiple data sources that require merging into their systems at the same time as the main accounting information because clients are looking to consolidate onto one platform from distributed and diverse environments and applications.
The ability to extract data and import it into SQL from various data sources is essential. This could be anything from flat files, Excel, Access, Paradox, Progress, Informix, Firebird SQL, and other legacy 4GLs and database engines. Once the data has been extracted, it needs to be imported and transformed into the Microsoft SQL database structure.
The client's database currently has approximately 900 tables, and the largest customer production database is 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 legacy applications) would be advantageous, but this is not essential.
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