Data Conversion and Migration Lead

Remote Opportunity

Teracore is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and minority business enterprise that has experienced continued, profitable growth.  For the past 19 years, Teracore has provided management and enterprise IT consulting services to the Federal Government.  Unlike other small businesses, Teracore is a proven prime contractor. We successfully prime over 70% of our contracts. 

Position Description: 

 US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED; ABILITY TO OBTAIN A CLEARANCE

Project Background:

The Financial Services Modernization (FSM) program will address the need to select a new financial system service provider to implement improved and integrated financial system capabilities in support of its financial, procurement, and asset management operations to replace the current financial system (Momentum).

Provide strong overall data migration support services to assist the Government in migrating legacy data and overseeing the full-lifecycle implementation activities and provide hands-on technical and functional consulting services, advice, and support to the project team. Assist in the transition management activities associated with supporting a transition from the legacy to the new financial system. Provide support to the Government in developing, maintaining, and monitoring the internal project schedules that are aligned with master project schedule.

Position Description:

The data lead position will assist the government in fulfilling its data migration responsibilities; this includes but is not limited to:

• Solid experience in developing data cleansing strategies, action plans, reconciliation plans and scripts
• Developing data management plan
• Experience in writing SQL * Loader, SQL, PLSQL, and other programming languages
• Determining the validity of data element values
• Reviewing and validating data relationships
• Coordinating with data owners to validate cleansed data (e.g., reconciling transaction details to summary records such as commitments and obligations to General Ledger (GL) balances)
• Determining data migration requirements
• Documenting migration activity timelines for mock conversions and production deployment
• Developing a data migration checklist and sign-off process to ensure completion of planned activities
• Assisting with determining data migration security controls
• Developing unit and end-to-end integration migration test plans (including testing for data extraction, transformation, data loading, and data validation)
• Solid experience with data transformation and data load testing
• Validating data of multiple mock conversions and the full migration coordinating with unit and end-to-end integration testing to ensure the flow of data from the source applications to the target applications is accurate
• Documenting the end-to-end data migration test results and lessons learned report
• Providing the completed and successfully tested conversion templates for all affected applications for mock conversions (three mock conversions are currently planned) and production conversion.

Required Skills: 

• MA/MS/BA/BS degree and 10 years of experience in supporting large data migration/conversion for ERP applications
• Must be a pro-active, value-add contributor to all data management meetings especially with the client, but also with the Teracore data team
• Must function as a trusted advisor to the client ensuring that best practices are observed, and issues are detected and mitigated by the Teracore team
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and have experience developing presentations, reports, and data management plans
• Must function as a leader of the data migration team
• Experienced in supporting Federal IT business application development and migration using a requirements driven lifecycle process (Specifically focused on the data architecture)

 Desired Skills:

• Experience performing data conversion tasks for full-lifecycle Federal financial system implementation project that is of similar size and scope
• Data Migration and Functional experience in SAP S/4Hana Federal Financials core modules including AP/PO/GL/AR/PR
• Working knowledge or understanding of any of the current systems a plus:
• Momentum Financial System
• PRISM (CIMS –PRISM based contract writing system)
• Sunflower
• FPD – a custom application for managing procurement requests
• Markview – Kofax invoice imaging and approval workflow system

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