Data Migration Specialist / Data Engineer – SQL, ETL & LegalTech – Remote
Recruitment Revolution Data Migration Specialist / Data Engineer – SQL, ETL & LegalTech – Remote
Summary
A hands-on data migration specialist/engineer who moves law firm data from legacy systems to cloud platforms (mainly Actionstep), using SQL analysis, ETL routines, data profiling, and validation across multiple concurrent client projects and go-lives. Fully remote, UK-based role.
In this role, you own data migration workstreams for law-firm projects, solving complex legacy data challenges and delivering cloud-based migrations (primarily to Actionstep). You’ll work across multiple client engagements, shaping migration processes and tooling while ensuring data accuracy and secure handling. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams and take technical ownership from analysis to go-live, with opportunities to influence migration methodology.
Pay / Benefits- Fully remote
- UK-based
- competitive salary DOE
- full-time permanent
- flexible hours around go-lives
- time off in lieu
- Analyze legacy databases, schemas, and complex data structures
- Extract/Transform/Load data into cloud platforms, mainly Actionstep
- Develop and maintain SQL scripts, ETL routines, and migration utilities
- Profile data, define cleansing requirements, and ensure data quality
- Manage trial migrations, UAT, and production cutovers
- Validate migrated records and reconcile critical data (financial data)
- Investigate defects and drive resolution of migration issues
- Coordinate migration activities across concurrent client projects
- Create migration specifications, mapping docs, and validation reports
- Contribute to improvements in migration processes, automation, tooling, and documentation
- Support occasional out-of-hours go-lives with time off in lieu
- Strong hands-on SQL skills and solid relational database knowledge
- Proven track record of migrating data between business-critical systems
- Experience in ETL, data mapping, data cleansing and validation
- Ability to interpret unfamiliar schemas and undocumented legacy structures
- Experience managing migration across multiple projects/workstreams
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and data reconciliation abilities
- Independent worker capable of meeting deadlines and resolving technical problems
- Practical understanding of data protection and secure handling of sensitive information
- Problem-solving
- Analytical thinking
- Attention to detail
- SQL and relational databases
- ETL principles and data transformation techniques
- Data mapping and cleansing