Technical Consultant - Data Migration at PlotBox

We pride ourselves on delivering world class solutions to our clients and rely on our talented and experienced Data Migration team to successfully onboard our customers to ensure their experience of our product is world class. At PlotBox we deal with a huge amount of data, ranging from critical business data to precious genealogical information. Our customers expect their data to be accurate and safe during the on-boarding process and whilst operating on a cloud platform. We provide our customers with confidence from the beginning of our relationship.

To support recent growth, we are looking for a Technical Consultant to ensure we on-board our customers data from legacy platforms in a safe, efficient and consistent manner. Reporting into the Data Migration Team Lead, you will work directly with clients to ensure data migration deliverables are achieved, updating PlotBox Project Managers regularly to ensure projects stay on track. 

You will have opportunity to work in projects across our entire global client base, which may include some international travel to support our customers during critical stages within the project.

Responsibilities

As Technical Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Working closely with our customers, and providing consultancy for business process discovery; establishing and understanding their needs and identifying areas where we solve business problems to support the migration of data
• Execution of customer data migration plans
• Development of migration scripts from target databases to upgraded schema
• Analysing clients Data and drafting Data Analysis Reports
• Executing Quality Assurance tests and checks on Data Migration scripts
• Communicating with customers to understand and resolve any issues as they arise
• Ensure that all Project Data Migration activities are delivered on-time, within scope and to budget

Who we think will be a great fit

ESSENTIAL:   

You will be focussed on delivering high quality outputs and be flexible and adaptive to the needs of the business.  You will have the ability to work to project plans and manage your time effectively and will demonstrate a positive can-do attitude towards your work.

You will have:

• At least 12 months professional experience in a similar role (within the past three years)
• Strong SQL skills, including stored procedures
• Experience of working with varied data formats (csv, MS SQL, Excel, MySQL Postgres etc)
• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or working knowledge of Google Drives (docs, sheets, slides etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of working closely with customers to gather requirements or support UAT
• Experience of contributing to process improvements
• Demonstrable experience working effectively alongside clients and colleagues at all levels, sometimes very senior
• A degree level qualification in Computing, Computer Science/CIT, or equivalent work experience

DESIRABLE:  

Ideally you will have some experience of working with complex data migration from legacy systems to SaaS and/or experience in a business analysis role or have requirements gathering techniques, but this is not a dealbreaker! We are more than happy to hear from you if you are keen to learn these aspects on the job. 

Company Summary

PlotBox is the leading software solution provider for the bereavement industry, facilitating crematoria and cemetery clients all around the world. We are very clear on our mission; to take away some of the pain for families dealing with death and those who serve them. Enabling our clients with world class software allows them to turn their attention to successfully supporting grieving families. 

We are a high growth scale up of almost 60 people headquartered in NI and spread out across the globe, collaborating on a journey to make PlotBox the solution of choice for every death care facility, globally.  We live and breathe our core values – Tenacity, Teamwork and Trust.

We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset. We actively promote from within and our dynamic scale up culture ensures proactivity and initiative is rewarded with excellent career opportunities, progression and mobility.

How would our team describe life in PlotBox? When asked to describe our company, they use words such as fun, respect, care, team spirit, family feel, trust, happy, listen, sense of accomplishment, flexibility, development.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join our talented team. We recently made it into the top 10 UK Best Workplaces™ 2021 and could not be happier. Our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox; from the relaxed working environment to feeling truly valued in their roles. In addition, our purpose driven mission and the sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives - means a lot to our team.

Benefits Offered by PlotBox

Our headquarters are ideally placed in the beautiful and scenic countryside location around Ballymena along with other office locations in the USA and Australia.  We are constantly increasing our list of benefits which currently include:

• Investment in employee growth, development and certification courses.
• Regular wellbeing initiatives and health cash plans
• Safe and supportive culture; we foster continuous improvement in all aspects of work
• Career mobility and progression
• Regular travel opportunities
• Flexible working hours
• Pension
• Working from home options (and not just during the pandemic!)
• Active social and charity committee - lots of social events throughout the year
• Office perks: fridge and larder fully stocked with unlimited drinks and snacks
• Free Parking