Team Manager, Data Migration

Location: This role is remote and open to candidates in the US and Canada

Our Industry: Technology for Small and Medium Size Business (SMB):

AbacusNext is a leading technology provider for legal, accounting, and compliance-focused professionals. We empower our customers to grow their businesses, better serve their clients, and operate at peak efficiency-all within a secure, cloud-enabled ecosystem.

We provide purpose-built, cloud-based solutions for small and medium-sized Legal and Accounting firms to support a secure and cloud-enabled practice.

Our product portfolio includes case and practice management, payment processing, private cloud hosting, and document automation solutions designed to make work easier for more than 1 million global users.

Our highly differentiated cloud infrastructure puts customers' business data and vital applications into a virtual workspace accessible anywhere, anytime, and from any device. www.abacusnext.com

Our Culture: Cutting-edge cloud technology with market needed capabilities:

We know that creativity doesn't happen on-demand. Developing cutting-edge cloud technology takes great minds and talented people working together in a collaborative environment. That is why we are committed to fostering an innovative, agile company culture. We encourage our teams to come together and experiment with new concepts, research new approaches and test out new technologies. We believe that being part of our team will make a difference in the world.

Our Mission: Technology and services for SMB customers to run their business:

To provide professionals in highly-regulated industries the technology and services they need to run their business-anytime, anywhere. We are with our customers every step of the way, helping them grow, evolve, and better serve their clients.

Your Mission:

Data is everywhere. Data is essential to our customers. When we acquire new customers, our Data Migration team imports their data in our systems. This is an essential step in our customer onboarding and one that can dramatically affect our customer's satisfaction. We are currently seeking a manager to lead our data migration team. You will work with your team to manage the migration of our customers' data to our flagship practice management software Zola Suite. This is both a people management and technical leadership role.

From a technology standpoint, you will leverage your SQL and data analysis/ETL expertise to organize and transform our data migration practice to accelerate customer launches, reduce manual work, and minimize re-work (all this in an agile development framework). You will use your well-polished business and communication skills to work with customers to understand their data requirements, help them make data-related decisions, and ultimately transition their application data to AbacusNext systems. The role will require you to learn new tools and technologies fast, and you should have in-depth database knowledge as well as programming and scripting skills. At the beginning, you may be called to deliver some projects so you can familiarize yourself with the environment. This role also requires a lot of collaboration with your peers in other departments across AbacusNext.

In addition, you will manage a growing team of ETL developers (5-10). We are looking for an inspirational leader who can help individual contributors grow their potential. In addition, we have significant growth plans, and you will execute on the hiring plan, which includes recruiting, onboarding, ongoing coaching, and performance discussions. You will build efficient and stable processes/tools that can be easily re-used in the future, as well as ensure that all relevant team knowledge is documented and disseminated. You will lead the team in institutionalizing those processes and best practices, while driving quality improvement.

Requirements

Your expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets will help you:

Responsibilities Include:

• Manage and lead your reports and resources to execute on the data migration team's vision. This includes recruiting, mentoring, and the development of individuals on your team.
• Manage onshore and offshore technology staff.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance of team's resources onshore and offshore in architecting, designing, building, documenting, and QA of data migration activities.
• Collaborate extensively with Product to ensure a unified vision for customer data migrations.
• Organize the data migration teams' work.
• Develop and manage team KPIs.
• Improve the team's deliverables quality, efficiency, and capability.
• Develop and deploy processes, best practices, methodologies, and guidelines.
• Nurture a fast paced, efficient work culture.
• Reverse engineer competitors' data platforms to optimize the migration of their data to ours.
• Engage with our clients to analyze their requirements.
• Design and document solutions to address these requirements.
• Evaluate the level of effort required to develop solutions.
• Lead the team in developing SQL scripts per client's expectations, documenting their work, and diagnose and resolve problems using debugging tools.
• Develop quality assurance testing processes.
• Work with the CISO organization to adhere to corporate security standards for platform and application development.
• Work alongside your peers in the Professional Services, Onboarding, Customer Success, and Sales team.

Most importantly, you enjoy working with data; you know the devil is in the details and that is why all your t's are crossed, and your i's are dotted to 100% accuracy.

Qualifications Include:

• 3+ years of people management (5+ teams)
• Bachelor's degree in CS
• Excellent computer skills
• 5+ years of experience in data integrations
• Mastery of MS SQL Server and T-SQL
• Knowledge of data modeling principles
• Expertise in at least one object-oriented programming (C# preferred)
• Solid agile foundations (with Azure DevOps experience preferred)
• Passionate about complex data structures and problem solving
• Ability to pick up new data tools and concepts quickly
• Proven expertise with SaaS solutions and Cloud technologies
• Proven expertise with scripting and programming, preferably C# or another object-oriented programming language
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing product and respond strategically to customer needs
• Ability to anticipate, prevent and solve problems both scrappily and holistically
• Ability to perform detail-oriented work, independently as well as in a group
• Excellent communication, written skills, and analytical skills

Leadership Qualifications:

An ownership mentality and entrepreneurial approach, including comfort with intelligent risk taking and problem-solving skills.

Be well organized with good delegation skills.

Experience in leading Agile development practices.

Possess the ability and experience to consistently deliver on teams' commitments.

Ability to build and maintain relationships with senior management, stakeholders, and team members.

Verifiable presentation skills, as a confident communicator who is enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible in style and approach.

Results-oriented self-starter in need of limited or no supervision.

Ideal candidates might also possess one or more of the following

• Paralegal or equivalent legal experience
• Experience working with APIs, including API testing tools

Benefits

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Disability Leave Coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Sick Days

Employee Perks:

Professional and Financial Growth

Great culture and environment

Social, Health, and Wellness Events (now all virtual)

Anniversary Gifts

Birthday Time Off

Equal Employment Opportunity: AbacusNext is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

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