Sr Vantagepoint Data Migration Consultant

This role is part of the consulting team. This role is customer facing and is expected to conduct customer phone calls and presentations. Verifying accuracy and completeness of all projects, to ensure quality work, is a crucial part of this role. In addition, this role is expected to contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of Deltek’s data migration tools and documents, as well as provide feedback and solutions to improve the scalability and overall implementation experience. The ideal candidate will be quality focused while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment in order to meet business and technical demands across a broad spectrum of customers. This role is expected to work weekends and non-standard hours intermittently, mainly for the purpose of minimizing customer downtime during go-live cut-over.

Position Responsibilities:

• Performs data migrations (including extracting, transforming and loading data), data merges, and data changes
• Assists customers and consultants with cleaning up existing data and building substitution tables in preparing for data migrations and changes
• Verifies accuracy and completeness of converted data
• For customers leading their own migrations, train customers on using data tools and migration best practices
• Works with customers, project managers, functional consultants, or software support to analyze data, identify problems, and propose solutions for customer challenges
• Provides thorough and timely communication regarding issues, change requests, and project statuses to the internal and external project team, including customers, project managers, functional consultants, and supervisor

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in IS/IT, Business, Accounting, or related program; or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years experience with Vision and/or Vantagepoint Advanced Import Utility, as well as basic Vision and/or Vantagepoint front end knowledge for validation purposes
• 5+ years experience working with software-related data migrations or ETL
• 5+ years experience working in a customer facing role
• Advanced Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Proficient understanding of accounting principles
• Proficient Microsoft Excel/CSV
• Proficient conflict management and negotiation
• Proficient troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Basic Team Foundation Server
• Basic SFTP
• Basic Microsoft Access, OneNote, and Word
• Basic Microsoft Outlook