Data Migration Specialist

Title: Data Migration Specialist 

Reports to: Principal Enterprise Architect

Location: Toronto, ON at 60 Adelaide St E

About Thentia:  

Thentia is a fast-growing, venture capital-backed software as a service (SaaS) company that is emerging as a world leader in government technology with a platform that is transforming and modernizing how regulatory organizations are conducting business. As acompany of builders, thinkers, and owners, Thentia gives employees the opportunity to create amazing solutions, showcase their talents, and benefit from our shared success as we scale up in the U.S., Canadian, and global markets. Our solutions directly impact public trust and regulatory integrity, helping regulators and agencies meet 21st century standards by leveraging predictive analytics, Big Data, AI, and other innovative capabilities.  

About The Role:

Data Migration lead customers in migrating their data assets from disparate systems to Thentia Cloud and play a critical role in efficiently onboarding clients to our platform. Our commitment lies in establishing delivery processes that are scalable, replicable, adaptable, and enable us to seamlessly accommodate our expanding client base. You should be passionate about working with diverse datasets, agile processes, innovative software tools and be someone who enjoys diving deep into data to provide business value. This is a senior technical role that collaborates with Thentia Delivery roles to create a SaaS-based digital solution for our customers. You are astute at communicating complex data-oriented topics in a simple manner to technical and non-technical customer personnel at all levels of an organization.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with customers to understand data migration requirements and needs
• Assist customers by delivering a data migration workstream from beginning to end, including analyzing, potential impacts, utilizing data engineering skills profiling, mapping, moving the data and transforming data as necessary, while considering risks and
• Communicate technical data migration strategies to business stakeholders and IT professionals
• Collaborate with other Thentia delivery teams to onboard customers and ensure a smooth transition from project to ‘live’ while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data.
• Define and document data migration strategies and outcomes including documenting any fixes or adjustments made and creating data migration reconciliation reports
• Develop and propose data migration best practices for all current and future projects to be used by Delivery teams.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and privacy guidelines for all migrated data
• Learn and maintain technical knowledge of the modules, features, processes, and capabilities of the Thentia
• Cloud to assist the client through the onboarding process
• Be an owner of the data migration technology stack used by Thentia.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in complex data migration, external customer facing project experiences (Must have data migration experience)

• Preferably experience in, and ideally in building data solutions for, highly regulated industries

• Post-secondary education in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent

• Demonstrated strong alignment to our Thentia Values, with particular focus on customer orientation, authoritativeness strong technical expertise and fact based manner of operating, highly collaborative and solution oriented, and high degree of accountability for and integrity of solutions and resulting data impacting outcomes.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills i.e., the ability to understand complex data sets and make sense of them

• Strong data querying skills using SQL and database skills (5+ years)

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python or C#

• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts and best practices and building data pipelines using ETL frameworks and APIs

• Proven track record of sharing outcomes through written communication, including an ability to effectively communicate with customers and business and technical teams in a simple and concise manner for the audience.

• Demonstrated experience with Agile project delivery using Scrum

We’re proud to be ‘Great Place to Work’ certified in the U.S. and Canada. Nearly 90% of our employees have participated and nearly 9 out of 10 employees overall agreed that Thentia is a ‘great place to work’.  

What we offer - Thentia provides employees with a competitive base salary along with:    

• Opportunity to work within a high performing culture
• Fully paid for health and wellbeing benefits
• Vacation, paid time off and wellbeing days
• Opportunity for discretionary performance bonus
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth, promotion
• Learning environment to challenge yourself and others
• Doing innovative work and ability to make an impact in an evolving industry that impacts public trust and safety

Join Thentia if you: 

• Have a passionate builder mindset and want to do great work to build something great

• Are not afraid to work hard and go outside your job description, to do the right thing for your customers

• Operate with high integrity and ethics to build trust and confidence of those you work with

• Want to work with similarly hard working and smart people to solve problems, together

• Are committed to doing your best; you focus on figuring out solutions, not dwelling on problems

• Own your work; get stuff done; you iterate and improve

• You are motivated by a high bar for performance

• Have a high sense of urgency; you move fast

• Take smart risks; own your mistakes and learn from them

• Can thrive in a constantly changing and ambiguous environment

Don’t join Thentia if you: 

• Like to work a boring routine 9-5 job
• Like to have a rigid job description
• Aren’t willing to go above and beyond your day-to-day job expectations
• Don’t get excited about working hard
• Don’t like to solve hard problems
• Prefer a slow pace
• Expect to be told what to do to get a job done
• Prefer to have 100% clarity in your day-to-day job responsibilities
• Are risk averse or you find a great comfort in routine work
• Prefer to work within the boundaries of what you know

Our Commitment:

Thentia is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are building products for a diverse world and are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard, which enables us to make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.  We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, provincial, or local laws in the regions we operate.  This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, or internships.  

We thank all applicants in advance for applying. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.  

Staffing Firms: Thentia does not accept unsolicited submissions. All firms must have valid agreements in place.