DATA MIGRATION CONSULTANT

Countries: Ghana, Kenya

Organization: Farsight Africa Group

Closing date: 5 Jun 2022

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 impactful solutions and public finance management services 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

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor degree in IT, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Business, Finance or 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


• General data/engineering competency to understand engineering terminology and systems/tools, manage and maintain information around products, data, governance, SOPs, (B.S)


• Successfully completed three (3) projects involving migration of large data sets from legacy systems to a new application.

How to apply

Kindly send your application letter and CV to jobs@farsightafrica.com before 4th June 2022.

Applications shall be reviewed on a rolling basis until the right candidate has been selected.