Senior Data Architect integrating Alberta’s environmental regulatory, Databricks, and geospatial platforms. Designing governed data flows for regulators, decision - makers, and Albertans.
About the role
- Data Migration Specialist managing client data migrations to gaiia's platform. Collaborating with teams to ensure accurate and timely data transitions.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to assess legacy data environment: structures, sources, volumes, quality, and constraints.
- Own migration solutioning: evaluate requirements, design approaches, and propose viable paths when blockers arise.
- Independently explore unfamiliar systems to understand source data structure in relation to gaiia’s data model and product.
- Collaborate with gaiia’s engineers on data extraction (databases, reports, flat files, APIs, etc.), and transformation approach aligned with business needs.
- Take ownership of unblocking challenges by identifying workarounds and translating business and technical issues into actionable steps.
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure stakeholders see expected data outcomes.
- Plan and execute cutover strategy: final "delta" migrations, downtime considerations, and rollback plans.
- Monitor post-cutover data, resolve discrepancies, and ensure stability in production.
- Produce documentation of the migration: mapping specs, transformation rules, data anomalies, and decision logs.
- Manage migration execution progress through project management tools.
- Communicate status, risks, and issues to implementation stakeholders and clients.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience (2-5+ years) working in data migration, data implementation, ETL, or similar roles.
- Hands-on exposure to end-to-end migration processes (discovery, extraction, transformation, loading, validation).
- Experience working with messy or poorly documented legacy systems.
- Strong understanding of data mapping and transformation logic; ability to interpret legacy schemas.
- Comfortable exploring new systems and forming hypotheses on how data can be extracted or structured.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a bias toward action and iteration.
- Effective communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including clients.
- Able to manage tasks and timelines while maintaining ownership of outcomes.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Flexible 25-days of vacation.
- Stock Options Plan.
- Group Insurance.
- Telemedicine.
- Life Spending Account.
- GRSP.
- Flexible working hours & all-remote work.
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