Job Description
Data Migration Engineer
New York, NY - Remote Role 8+ months Pay Rate: $65.00/hr - 71.42/hr
Top Skills
- Technical Expertise in Data Migration Tools & Methods
- Hands-on experience with tools like BitTitan, SkyKick, ShareGate, Google Workspace Migrate, Azure Data Factory, or custom ETL solutions.
- Strong knowledge of scripting (Python, PowerShell, SQL) for automation, transformations, and validation.
- Understanding of structured/unstructured data, APIs, and staging processes (SFTP, cloud storage, etc.).
- Data Analysis & Validation Skills
- Ability to profile, clean, and transform data to ensure accuracy and integrity during migrations.
- Strong SQL/querying background to validate record counts, reconcile data sets, and troubleshoot discrepancies.
- Familiarity with metadata, file structures, and mapping exercises.
- Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting
- Comfort with diagnosing failures in large-scale migrations (timeouts, corrupted files, schema mismatches, access/auth issues).
- Quick thinker who can identify root causes and workarounds with minimal downtime.
- Experience handling complex cutover strategies and rollback planning.
- Project & Process Discipline
- Experience working in structured migration projects (phased rollouts, blackout windows, checkpoints, reporting).
- Ability to create repeatable, documented processes that scale across acquisitions and environments.
- Attention to detail with strong documentation and reporting habits (validation reports, migration logs, dashboards).
Job Description
- Works collaboratively with business and project leaders and other impacted departments, and coordinates efforts across stakeholder groups in assisting to set goals and expectations
- Use tools to setup and run migrations and post migration reporting: scan and report on the environment using existing automated scripts
- Gather post migration feedback
- Interpret reports to suggest organization of data for optimum performance, security and usability and work with business managers to agree a final outline, ensuring compliance with the Digital Media and other guidelines
- Working with project team and business units to confirm migration plan, manage preparation timing, re-syncing data and final cutovers
- Assist pre and post migration with any issues and best practices (remediating and re-organizing data, removing duplicates and stale data)
- Work with Communication and User Experience teams on feedback and to inform best practice
- Update support documentation for post migration support teams
- Actively suggest updates to streamline the migration process
- Manage ongoing requests and support tickets
- Work internationally to support migrations out of hours: e.g. Europe (morning) and Asia (afternoon)
- Working with team members by updating team Monday boards, SharePoint hosted files, etc.
- Working with the Ci Media and other partners to coordinate migrations for the optimum user experience
- Archive of data as necessary
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, Technology or relevant field, or equivalent combination of skills and experience
- Microsoft or IT Certification(s) preferred
Job Tags
Remote work, Day shift