Title: Sr. Consultant, Data Migration (Remote/Travel)
Band: B3
About Us:
Appirio, a Wipro Company helps customers improve Worker & Customer experiences with outcome-oriented consultants who bring the latest digital thinking andunmatched cloud experience. We create actionable strategies that deliver results quickly, and help organizations adapt to a new experience-driven era. We deliver results quickly by harnessing the power of thousands of pre-built solution accelerators. Appirio is a trusted partner to some of the world’s largest brands, including YP, Cardinal Health, Coca-Cola, eBay, Facebook, Home Depot, Sony PlayStation, Moen, and IBM.
Brief Summary of Role:
The Senior Data Migration Consultant will be the primary customer point of contact for data migration between the project team and customer team. The person in this role uses their knowledge and experience to influence and guide teams and clients through the entire data migration lifecycle – from initial strategy, through mapping, script development, data quality reviews and final load to production. This position requires a self-motivated, customer-focused professional with a passion for data who consistently keeps commitments to customers and fellow employees. This is a hands-on role that requires significant technical experience and abilities with Salesforce and related cloud technologies.
Responsibilities:
Work directly with customers, functional consultants and integration consultants to establish data migration plan and approach, lead development and testing of migration scripts and complete the data conversion and load of data into Salesforce.
Understand technical data conversion issues, expertly resolve issues and communicate solutions Serves as the data expert on Appirio projects focused on Salesforce implementations.
Assist customers with their data extract, explaining the conversion process, defining data requirements, and working with them to correct data in their legacy systems / staging database in preparation for the data conversion cycle
Release and Environment Management including sandbox usage planning, data storage capacity estimation, metadata and data migration, environment comparisons and version control.
Works directly with clients to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of technology solution.
Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including offshore team members
Education and Required Experience:
Requires Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field plus 2 years of experience with Salesforce development.
Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field plus 5 years of experience with Salesforce development or equivalent combination of education and experience 3+ years of experience in a hands-on technical leadership position
3+ years of experience consulting for enterprise software applications with a focus on the data conversion process or similar industry experience.
3+ years of experience with Salesforce development is preferred.
Experience with industryspecific CRM and fundraising platforms (e.g., Banner, Blackbaud CRM, Raisers Edge, Team Approach, Donor Direct, Luminate, eTapestry, etc.)
Experience with Salesforce data model Experience working in Large Data Volume (LDV) environments
Expertise in data extraction, transformation, and data loading techniques and comfort creating Entity Relationship and Data Flow diagrams to communicate complex migration and transformations to clients.
Experience with database systems (Oracle, SQL, MySQL, etc.) and query languages (SQL/PLSQL)
One or more current Salesforce certifications (Administrator/Advanced Administrator, Platform Developer 1 or 2, App Builder, Sales/Service Cloud) is preferred.
Experience with the complete software project lifecycle, understanding of the importance of data conversion and the time commitment involved.
Demonstrated on the job experience with ETL software Passion for data accuracy and completeness
Can work in a fast paced, fast-growth, high-energy environment and deal with multiple high priority activities concurrently Unit testing experience heavy data conversion experience
Located and able to work in the U.S. from a home office and able to travel up to 50-70%
Not eligible for Visa sponsorship
We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.