(Senior) Data Expert

Company Description

At IFS you will work in a growing, global enterprise software company built upon committed and empowered colleagues who come to work knowing they are making a difference. We work every day within our single platform and embedded digital innovation to help our customers be their best when it really matters to their customers – at the Moment of Service™. We take pride in ensuring that our employees are able to achieve the company goals as well as develop their career. We believe empowered autonomy, committed colleagues and being part of a winning team are the keys to our success and what makes us great!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Job Description

This position requires data technically savvy individual who wants to be a part of our global data expert team. The data expert team is responsible for the successful migration of data from third-party systems into IFS Business Software solutions IFS Cloud/IFS Applications for our customers.  This person will handle all data migration aspects for their assigned projects and will work closely with colleagues and customers, ensuring we deliver value to the customer through our projects.

Qualifications

Essential Functions

• Advising our customers on data migration from third-party systems to our IFS product suite
  • Analysis, conception and implementation of data transfer strategies and migrations
  • Support in data mapping
• Assesses the customer’s legacy data source(s) to determine quality issues, data gaps and alignment with IFS data constructs
• Makes data cleansing recommendations based on output of Data Assessment activities
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of data sequence, data dependencies, migration risks, and key data migration milestones throughout implementation of the Customer solution
• Participates in the strategy, analysis and design for a client’s data migration
• Demonstrates an understanding of performance considerations due to data volumes and time criticality of the migration process
• Active contact person for the customer and processing of inquiries and error messages
• Conducting trainings for our customers on IFS data migration methodology and tools
• Further development of the IFS methodology in the field of data migration

Qualifications Required

• Professional experience in the implementation and/or support of ERP business solutions
• Bachelor or Masters’ degree in Business or IT (or equivalent education or experience)
• Knowledge of PL/SQL, SQL and data relations
• Good business process knowledge and high data affinity
• Strong analytical skills
• Familiar with ERP data migrations
• Experience with Oracle / SQL Server RDBMS and MS Azure Cloud
• Professional interaction with customers and ability to analyze customer requirements in a well-founded manner
• Experience with IFS Cloud/IFS Applications would be a benefit

Skills and abilities

• Friendliness, strong empathy and ability to work in a team
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact directly with customers
• High level of self-motivation, sense of responsibility and flexibility
• Good planning skills
• Ability to work in English

We expect you to continuously want to develop and learn to stay relevant and being an expert that shares knowledge and experience with customers and colleagues. This includes staying updated within your field of expertise.

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Comprehensive onboarding program and a Buddy guiding and helping you - no one is left behind
• To work with a great product with good recognition in the market and amongst customers and analysts
• To work with our international contacts and colleagues including our offshore, R&D and partner organizations

Travel: We expect you to be ready to travel and represent IFS at customer sites when needed. This means that for certain projects, travel is required, while for others, none.

For further information, please contact Jens Schwarzer, [email protected]

Please submit a brief cover letter telling us a bit about yourself and how you would fit in to this position along with your CV. Interviews and selections are being made continuously so do apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a test, to get us an understanding of our future employees.