Data Migrations Engineer - MerusCase

What is the role?

Working as a Data Migrations Engineer at MerusCase, you’ll be joining a rapidly-growing provider of cloud-based case management for legal professionals. Data Migration Engineers play a critical role in MerusCase’s success and growth. You’ll be responsible for taking client datasets in the form of database backups, tabular data, document archives, and converting them into a form that is usable by the application. Your day-to-day tasks might include reverse engineering schema and adjusting or customizing existing migrator code.

In this role, you will:

• Understand data requirements of the client and create new migration scripts to migrate one format to another
• Troubleshoot customer issues and help resolve them
• Efficiently manage inbound migration queue and set the right expectation with stakeholders
• Continue to refactor code and improve productivity in order to reduce redundancy
• Enhance the overall migration process for successful implementation and operation
• Assist in the automation of migration testing and completion
• Collaborate with developers on engineering initiatives
• Monitor, document, and report progress of the data migration plan at project level
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 1+ year of programming/scripting experience
• 1+ year of data transformation, data pipeline, data analytics
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field
• Good understanding of relational database concepts and the ability to independently make sense of schemas with little documentation
• Data modeling and analysis techniques
• Experience in executing data migration from multiple legacy systems

Who is the ideal candidate?

• Proficiency with languages such as Python, Pandas, C#
• Familiar with ETL processes, data processing or data analysis
• Familiar with the Linux command line, particularly file system operations
• Knowledge working with Selenium is a plus.
• Proficiency with relational database technology such as SQL.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite like Excel.
• Experience working with Jira and Salesforce is a plus.

Why should you join Paradigm?

Paradigm offers a suite of legal practice software solutions that help lawyers manage, automate and grow their firms. More than 50,000 lawyers across 170 countries use our products to shift the paradigm of how they practice law. With four world-class all-in-one legal practice management platforms — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and LollyLaw – in addition to payments and accounting solutions powered by Headnote and TrustBooks.

Paradigm empowers lawyers across the spectrum of practice area, geography, and business needs. At Paradigm, we are fast-paced, ambitious and unified by a common vision to build the best legal technology products in the world.

Benefits/Perks

• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation + sick and parental leave 
• Remote working flexibility 
• Budget for home office improvements 
• Company culture that encourages work / life balance 
• 100% paid PPO medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401k matching, equity grants
• Bi-annual company retreats and many other fun activities to bring our team together (physically or virtually) as often as possible!