Position Summary
The Team Lead, Data Conversion will build positive relationships with customers and serve as a primary point of contact for large scale complex product implementations and business-led change initiatives. The role will include, but is not limited to:
- Leading the data conversion team to implement conversion implementation project deliverables.
- Collaborating with client operations and executive teams, confirming business requirements, and aligning to technical requirements.
- Understanding project status and facilitate achievement of project objectives and priorities.
- Identifying process gaps and facilitating continuous refinement of conversion methodology.
- Overseeing data-related initiatives and identifying innovation and improvement opportunities.
- Adapting to and incorporating best practices across the conversion team while documenting and communicating to impacted stakeholders.
- Acting as an escalation point for active client engagements.
- Facilitating the accurate and timely integration mapping of client data from source system to our industry-leading platform.
- Applying and staying within the requirements of project governance, standards, and processes.
- Working in collaboration with project managers in the successful delivery of key projects and objectives.
- Developing a deep understanding of conversion products sufficient to facilitate decision-making at various levels.
- Communicating appropriately to internal and external stakeholders about the project deliverables and key updates.
- Training and mentoring other data conversion team members.
Qualifications: –
- Experience performing rapid assessments and being able to distill key themes as early as possible in an assessment process.
- Experience with assessing data and analytic requirements to establish mapping rules from Working experience using various data applications/systems such as Oracle SQL, Excel, .csv files, etc.
- Demonstrated experience automating manual data conversion, migration, or integration processes.
- Experience with real-time, batch, and ETL for complex data conversions.
- Strong knowledge of extract, transform, load (ETL) methodologies for large-scale data conversions, integrations, and/or migrations.
- Utilize data mapping tools to prepare data for data loads based on target system specifications.
- Strong SQL scripting experience.
- A track record of building and maintaining relationships with leaders, both internally and externally.
- Demonstrated ability to scope, develop, test, and implement data conversions.
- Proven success implementing data conversion processes.
- Ability to determine priorities daily to achieve business objectives.
- Experience in customer SIT, UAT, migration and go live support.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience as a data conversion specialist or similar position
- 10+ years of total experience in the IT/Financial/Equity domain.
- Equity compensation or financial data experience a plus but not required.
- Excellent English written, oral and presentation skills.