Data Migration Engineer
Location: Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Ballymena HQ, Co Antrim.
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent. 40 hrs per week, Mon - Fri.
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 talented individual who is experienced in working with data to join our team. You will be working alongside other members of an agile team to complete customer data migration projects from a variety of source systems. Although the Data Team is centred around customer projects, this is a non-customer facing role and the focus will be on the technical side of work.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced data specialist with strong SQL skills (or similar language/ technology) with a desire to further develop their skills in data acquisition, manipulation, cleansing, testing and migration.
What you will do :
As Data Migration Engineer, you will be responsible for retrieving and manipulating data in databases from legacy systems while ensuring that data quality, integrity and completeness is maintained:
- Developing migration scripts from target databases to upgraded schema
- Working with various types of data ranging from personal ownership records through to complex financial data
- Estimating and completing tasks as part of a Sprint team
- Executing customer data migration plans
- Analysing clients data and draft data analysis reports
- Delivering Quality Assurance tests and checks on Data Migration scripts
- Working with the Technical Consultants to understand requirements and correct issues flagged in UAT
- Ensuring all Project Data Migration activities are delivered on-time, within scope and to budget
What we are looking for :
- At least 3 years working with varied data formats (csv, MS SQL, Excel, MySQL Postgres etc) ideally for complex data migration from legacy systems to SaaS
- Developed over a period of time, you will have solid SQL skills, including query writing and stored procedures
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or working knowledge of Google Drives (docs, sheets, slides etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable experience working effectively as part of a team and delighting the customer
- Relevant educational background, preferably in the fields of computer science or a relevant professional IT qualification (or equivalent work experience)
Desirable Experience -Its not a deal breaker, but ideally you will have:
- Basic knowledge of Python
Why should you join PlotBox ?
- We have a clear mission - and a sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives; this means a lot to our team.
- We are a global company with over 120 colleagues based across the UK, Australia and North America. You’ll undoubtedly broaden your understanding and appreciation of global operations.
- We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset.
- We are proud that, since 2020, we have received our Great Place to Work® Certification™ - our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox.
- We have also been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ 2024 - we invest in employee growth; we nurture every career.
- We are a truly diverse and inclusive workplace; we are proud to boast 43% femalé representation - which is almost double the average within the tech industry and helped put us on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women listing in 2023
- Our focus on wellbeing and a supportive culture has seen us ranked on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list (2023)
- One of our core values is trust; you are trusted to do your job without someone micro-managing - we expect people to give their best efforts in return
Life at PlotBox - we appreciate that we may not be the right workplace for everyone, so below we have laid out what life at Plotbox is really like so you can decide if a career at PlotBox is for you !
- We are a growing / scaling company - as such we don't always have everything neatly mapped out so you have to be comfortable with ambiguity sometimes
- A 40 hour working week and flexible working hours. We ask everyone to be in the office during our core hours from 10-4pm meaning you can balance your work hours around life’s commitments.
- Hybrid working - for most roles, our staff work 2 days per week in the office and we love the opportunity it gives us to collaborate face to face.
- We believe in continuous improvement - so that can mean change is a pretty constant thing for us - we need our people to embrace change as opposed to resisting it
- We believe feedback is crucial to development so we will create a safe environment where you can take onboard feedback and use it to improve - but we can't force you to take the feedback on board; that's your choice
- We will support and nurture you - but we need you to show initiative, be able to tackle problems, roll with the challenges and get stuff done
- There is no room for ego round here - everyone is here because they bring something to the table - all voices are heard and respected
- We support our employees’ health and wellbeing with regular wellbeing initiatives and a health cash plan, access to EAP and additional counselling support
- Our life assurance policy ensures your loved ones are looked after should the worst happen *
- Our flexible benefits suite allows you to flex-up (or down) on on benefits depending on what is most useful to you and your family at the time
- Career mobility and progression which is based on merit as opposed to ‘time-served’ as well as the opportunity to travel to our global sites and visit customers when they need us on the ground.
- Active social and charity committee - lots of social events throughout the year including a summer social, Christmas party, Easter events, quizzes, book club, walking groups, coffee mornings and many many more.
- We offer Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership if that’s your thing!
- Quirky office set on a beautiful nature reserve with fully-stocked fridges and larders
- Free parking too!
PlotBox is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic that makes you who you are.. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
If you require any reasonable adjustment or wish to speak to a member of our Talent team about tailoring the recruitment process to your needs please email careers@plotblox.io stating the role you are applying for.
