Data Migration Lead (SFIA Level 6+)
Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Where the job is based: (home-based, working with Kerv office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who we are: Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value! With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders. People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.
Who we are looking for:
- A Data Migration leader with expertise and deep understanding of data migrations to Dynamics 365 and other similar SaaS applications.
- At Kerv Digital we recognise the vital importance of a robust Data Migration service for customers. This role will lead and shape the key, focussed, service that we offer.
- You’ll be comfortable taking a leadership role with clients, and working closely with colleagues across Data, D365 and Delivery Management.
- A strong communicator, you are able to navigate complex, multiple, project scenarios, flag issues and challenge appropriately.
- You’ll have end-to-end experience of delivering Enterprise solution data migrations (D365 CRM, BC, F&O/F&SCM) from small to large-scale within an Agile delivery model, working both hands-on and in a solution lead capacity.
- Leveraging your deep hands-on experience of all things Data Migration, you will be leading on the workstream delivery of data migration encompassing estimating and quoting, detailed requirement gathering, design and build, and assurance and oversight.
- We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver value for our clients, and ownership of the continuous improvement of Data Migration accelerator tooling is a key focus of this role.
- As Service Lead, you will be feeding back to Technical Leadership forums on lessons-learned and driving continuous improvement of the service to ensure that our proposition is industry-leading.
- As a guardian for Technical Excellence for Data Migration, you will assist in recruitment of data engineers, defining best practice and leading data engineers to adhere to your exacting standards.
- All backgrounds will always be considered and experience is essential, we’re looking for somebody with a numerate background and proven experience working in a data migration role in the D365 ecosystem.
Required Experience:
- Experience of managing priorities on multiple projects / workstreams
- Skilled at collaborating across different teams, and with project/delivery managers
- Effectively and appropriately challenging where necessary
- Stakeholder management and technical team interaction (internal, external and 3rd party)
- Innovative, flexible approach to challenges and ever-evolving projects
- Working in an Agile landscape - making technical decisions/recommendations where there is uncertainty
- Creation of fault-tolerant data ingestion pipelines in SSIS/ KingswaySoft / Data Factory / data flows using Linked Services, Integration Datasets
- Requirements gathering expertise, including:
- Leading workshops
- Elaboration of user stories and refining these to an Engineer-friendly technical approach
- Documentation of approach
- Creation of mapping specifications between legacy and CRM/ERP/Finance applications
- Integration to D365, Dataverse solutions or other SaaS applications
- Extraction of data from a variety of sources including SQL databases, document databases, graph databases, web APIs, etc.
- Build of dashboards to reconcile migrated data
- 10+ years’ experience of Consulting, Nonprofit, Government or Financial Services
- 7+ years’ experience of D365 CRM and hands-on skills with ETL tools.
Desirable experience:
- Migration of data from Salesforce, Care NG, Raisers Edge, Lotus Notes, dotdigital, Hubspot, Faststats, Enthuse, GoFundMe, Everyday Hero, Memory Giving, PayPal, World Pay, Gift Aid processors, JustGiving
- ETL/ELT best practice approaches to monitoring and error-handling
- Writing unit tests, git Version control
- Awareness of reliability patterns in ETL pipelines
- Techniques and tools for sanitizing data prior to use
- Azure data certifications
- Azure Synapse/Fabric: Synapse-link, Fabric Link, on-demand SQL engine
- Use of python in Jupyter notebooks for data processing
- Azure storage technologies and cost/performance characteristics
- Power BI, DAX, data flows
- Data Governance tools (e.g. Microsoft Purview)
We’re also looking for people that fit how we work:
- happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
- an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
- an escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team
- ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What we can do for you:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
Real Flexibility - we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our unicorns (that’s this team) seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
Awesome Environment - all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on - that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
Interesting Work - these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
Great Benefits - all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
Recognition & Growth - Certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India and we’ve just entered the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, which charts the top 100 fastest growing tech. companies in the country; we know we achieved this directly through the people we choose to work with. Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build groundbreaking technology - we build future.
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More on equality:
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
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