Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sharp Solutions, Inc is seeking an IFS Technical Consultant specializing in data migration to support ERP implementations and upgrades. The role plans, maps, transforms, loads, validates, and reconciles data into IFS Cloud and earlier IFS Applications versions while coordinating with project teams, consultants, and customer stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Support migration scope definition, data object planning, and migration cycle preparation in collaboration with project managers, solution architects, functional consultants, customer SMEs, and technical teams
- Develop and maintain source-to-target mapping documentation, transformation rules, load sequencing, acceptance criteria, and migration assumptions for assigned data objects
- Use SQL and related data preparation techniques to profile source data, identify quality issues, support extracts, stage migration data, and troubleshoot load or reconciliation exceptions
- Configure and execute IFS-supported migration processes using tools such as Data Migration Manager, Data Transfer Kit, migration jobs, file-based templates, and other approved load mechanisms
- Execute ETL activities, including data extraction coordination, transformation logic, staging, load preparation, error correction, and repeatable migration package creation
- Perform migration validation and reconciliation activities, including record counts, control totals, exception review, error reporting, and support for functional validation by business SMEs
- Support iterative mock migration cycles, cutover rehearsals, and final migration execution by tracking load results, resolving data issues, and improving repeatability across each cycle
- Identify and escalate migration risks, data quality issues, source-system constraints, mapping gaps, tooling limitations, and readiness concerns to project leadership
- Communicate migration progress, issue status, dependencies, reconciliation outcomes, and next steps in a clear, structured, and customer-appropriate manner
- Contribute to continuous improvement of migration templates, mapping standards, reconciliation practices, issue tracking methods, and delivery methodologies within the Professional Services team
Skills
- Proven experience supporting ERP data migration activities within a Professional Services or consulting environment, with exposure to IFS implementations preferred
- Strong technical knowledge of IFS Cloud or earlier Apps versions, including familiarity with IFS data structures, business objects, entities, relationships, and migration sequencing
- Hands-on experience with IFS migration tools and techniques such as Data Migration Manager, Data Transfer Kit, migration jobs, Excel or file-based load templates, and supported IFS migration processes
- Strong SQL skills and ability to work with source extracts, staging tables, data profiling, transformation logic, exception analysis, and reconciliation queries
- Experience with data mapping, ETL, data cleansing support, transformation rules, validation routines, reconciliation reports, and migration issue tracking
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a structured approach to repeatable migration execution and issue resolution
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain migration status, data issues, reconciliation results, dependencies, and technical findings to functional, technical, project, and customer stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consulting environment, including functional consultants, developers, solution architects, project managers, customer SMEs, and source-system owners
- Highly organized and self-motivated, with the ability to manage migration tasks, documentation, load cycles, issue lists, and deadlines across multiple workstreams
- You MUST be a US Citizen for this position
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