Data Migration Engineer

at  Benefact Group

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: 18 month fixed term contract
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: REQ202555

ABOUT US

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
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ABOUT THE ROLE

Benefact Group, are looking for a Data Migration Engineer to join our Gloucester office.
As Data Migration Engineer you will build, deploy and operate automated data migration solutions through ELT/ETL, SQL and other relevant technologies with a view to provide trustworthy data for business use in the relevant applications and systems.
Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• To plan and achieve tasks from which the technical solutions will be created. These solutions will mean that the business can carry out their daily activities of looking after our customers & policy holders.
• To support the data migration monitoring processes ensuring that the services are fixed and deployed quickly.
• To input into and manage our data artefacts, which will include planning, task completion, unit testing, peer review, release, meta data, data modelling and deployment. This will ensure that the right controls have been applied whilst maintaining the accuracy of our process’s and controls to maintain quality of work.
• To attend Data Analytics Board (DAB) meetings to provide input to our data value delivery methods; this will enable operational efficiency and foster collaboration.
• Responsible for the creation and input of meta data to sufficient levels.
• To convert user stories to technical tasks, translating the business goal to a technical one, allowing the delivery of a technical solution.
• To use a number of modern data platform tools set up in an agile delivery method to progress in a journey towards continuous integration and deployment of projects in the cloud.
• To provide Data Migration as a service to the business so that automated consumption of solutions can be achieved through a rich data layer with controlled access and services.
• Being commercial in your approach value driven in all development.