Job Description

Who we are:

Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. We're not just another tech company. We're the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value! With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic 112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 900 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders. People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.

Who we are looking for:

A Data Migration leader with expertise and deep understanding of data migrations to Dynamics 365 and other similar SaaS applications. We recognise the vital importance of a robust Data Migration service for customers. This role will lead and shape the key, focussed, service that we offer. You'll be comfortable taking a leadership role with clients, and working closely with colleagues across Data, D365 and Delivery Management. A strong communicator, you are able to navigate complex, multiple, project scenarios, flag issues and challenge appropriately. You'll have end-to-end experience of delivering Enterprise solution data migrations (D365 CRM, BC, F&O/F&SCM) from small to large-scale within an Agile delivery model, working both hands-on and in a solution lead capacity. Leveraging your deep hands-on experience of all things Data Migration, you will be leading on the workstream delivery of data migration encompassing estimating and quoting, detailed requirement gathering, design and build, and assurance and oversight. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver value for our clients, and ownership of the continuous improvement of Data Migration accelerator tooling is a key focus of this role. As Service Lead, you will be feeding back to Technical Leadership forums on lessons-learned and driving continuous improvement of the service to ensure that our proposition is industry-leading. As a guardian for Technical Excellence for Data Migration, you will assist in recruitment of data engineers, defining best practice and leading data engineers to adhere to your exacting standards. All backgrounds will always be considered and experience is essential, we're looking for somebody with a numerate background and proven experience working in a data migration role in the D365 ecosystem.

Required Experience:

Experience of managing priorities on multiple projects / workstreams Skilled at collaborating across different teams, and with project/delivery managers Effectively and appropriately challenging where necessary Stakeholder management and technical team interaction (internal, external and 3rd party) Innovative, flexible approach to challenges and ever-evolving projects Working in an Agile landscape - making technical decisions/recommendations where there is uncertainty Creation of fault-tolerant data ingestion pipelines in SSIS/ KingswaySoft / Data Factory / data flows using Linked Services, Integration Datasets Requirements gathering expertise, including: Leading workshops Elaboration of user stories and refining these to an Engineer-friendly technical approach Documentation of approach Creation of mapping specifications between legacy and CRM/ERP/Finance applications Integration to D365, Dataverse solutions or other SaaS applications Extraction of data from a variety of sources including SQL databases, document databases, graph databases, web APIs, etc. Build of dashboards to reconcile migrated data 10+ years' experience of Consulting, Nonprofit, Government or Financial Services 7+ years' experience of D365 CRM and hands-on skills with ETL tools.

Desirable experience:

Migration of data from Salesforce, Care NG, Raisers Edge, Lotus Notes, dotdigital, Hubspot, Faststats, Enthuse, GoFundMe, Everyday Hero, Memory Giving, PayPal, World Pay, Gift Aid processors, JustGiving ETL/ELT best practice approaches to monitoring and error-handling Writing unit tests, git Version control Awareness of reliability patterns in ETL pipelines Techniques and tools for sanitizing data prior to use Azure data certifications Azure Synapse/Fabric: Synapse-link, Fabric Link, on-demand SQL engine Use of python in Jupyter notebooks for data processing Azure storage technologies and cost/performance characteristics Power BI, DAX, data flows Data Governance tools (e.g. Microsoft Purview)

We're also looking for people that fit how we work:

happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things! an escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team ability to work effectively with remote teams in India ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 80,000.00-85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension On-site parking Paid volunteer time Private medical insurance Referral programme Sick pay Work from home
Schedule:

Monday to Friday No weekends
Experience:

Consulting, Nonprofit, Government or Financial Services: 10 years (required) D365 CRM and hands-on skills with ETL tools.: 7 years (required) managing priorities on multiple projects / workstreams: 10 years (required) Working in an Agile landscape: 8 years (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person

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