Company Description

The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s leading university. We employ more than 5400 academic and professional staff to support over 41,000 students, making us one of NZ’s largest employers.  

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity 

Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland is undertaking a significant programme to transition from its legacy PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System to a leading new Software-as-a-Service solution.  This transition requires the skills and support of an experienced enterprise data migration specialist.

This Data Migration Specialist is a technical analyst role that has some overlap with the practices of data architecture.  The successful candidate is expected to have systems-integration and system-design experiences and will preferably also have specialised knowledge in the human resources and adjacent business domains at an operational level.

The main purpose of this position is to work with subject-matter experts, business owners, stakeholders, customers, and the project team in gathering business requirements for data migration needs, and to lead the implementation of those requirements with sustainable technical patterns and approaches.

Data Analysis

• Analysis of legacy data models to determine the usage and business purpose of data attributes.
• Work with stakeholders to determine requirements for data migration needs.

Data migration preparation / planning

• Work with the project team and implementation partner, to deliver the source to target system field mapping, build transformation code and load data.
• Prepare data migration plans including migration risk, milestones, quality, and business sign-off details.

Data migration

• Perform migration and testing of static data and transaction data from one core system to another.
• Perform data migration audit, reconciliation, and exception reporting.

For further information please refer to the Position Description attached.

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

Essential:

• Proven working experience as a data analyst / migration specialist.
• Previous experience with large scale ERP system migrations.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Hands-on experience interrogating and manipulating data in data base technologies such as SQL and Oracle databases using languages like SQL or PL/SQL.
• Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques

We are looking to appoint this position as soon as the right candidate applies and is available, we prefer to engage this role as a 18month fixed term employee with an additional extension till June 2025.

Relevant experience  

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Applications must be submitted online; the closing date is 28th August 2022 but will close sooner if we appoint someone. Please include your cover letter and CV combined as one document.  

The University is committed to meeting its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and achieving equity outcomes for staff and students in a safe, inclusive and equitable environment.  For further information on services for Māori, Pacific, women, LGBTQITakatāpui+, people with disabilities, parenting support, flexible work and other equity issues go to www.equity.auckland.ac.nz

Equity

The University is committed to meeting its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and achieving equity outcomes for staff and students in a safe, inclusive and equitable environment.  For further information on services for Māori, Pacific, women, LGBTQITakatāpui+, people with disabilities, parenting support, flexible work and other equity issues go to www.equity.auckland.ac.nz

Equity

The University is committed to meeting its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and achieving equity outcomes for staff and students in a safe, inclusive and equitable environment.  For further information on services for Māori, Pacific, women, LGBTQITakatāpui+, people with disabilities, parenting support, flexible work and other equity issues go to www.equity.auckland.ac.nz