About The Position
Lyrasis is a 501 c 3 non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting enduring access to the world's shared academic, scientific, and cultural heritage. Its mission is to empower libraries, archives, and museums through content services, open technologies, and community-based solutions, fostering an inclusive, equitable, accessible, and sustainable future. The organization values communication, respect, collaboration, impact, and service. The Data Migration Specialist will be responsible for extracting, transforming, and loading client data from legacy cultural heritage systems into Lyrasis-operated, open-source software platforms such as ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, and DSpace. This role also involves creating and maintaining migration tools. The ideal candidate will provide excellent technical support and customer service, manage stressful situations, meet deadlines, define functional requirements with project managers and stakeholders, communicate complex issues effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
Requirements
- Knowledge of and experience with cultural heritage organizations' operations, workflows, data/metadata, and repository infrastructure.
- Knowledge of current and emerging content and encoding standards for metadata, such as EAD, IIIF, MARCXML, MODS, METS, RDA, and SPECTRUM.
- High comfort level with Unix/Linux, a shell prompt, scripting, PostgresSQL/SQL, or other relational databases, and wrangling data in XML, JSON, and CSV formats, and using APIs to retrieve and update data.
- Familiarity with data ETL tools and techniques.
- The ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong customer service focus.
- Excellent time and project management skills; ability to estimate time effectively.
- Ability to succeed in a team environment and in a remote organization with minimum direction.
- A commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where differences and complexities in background, cultures, values, and viewpoints are valued.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating or managing open-source collections management/repository systems, such as ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, DSpace, Fedora Commons, Islandora, or Samvera.
- Experience in helping others use collections management/repository systems.
- Experience creating, updating and maintaining documentation.
- Experience creating and/or delivering training.
- Experience writing or maintaining Ruby scripts or applications. NOTE: The Rails web development framework is only tangentially relevant to the work of the Data Migrations Team.
- Experience using GitHub for version control and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Analyze prospective client data in order to determine the feasibility of and time estimate for a prospective migration project.
- Manage migration projects for Lyrasis clients by producing project plans and timelines for clients, adhering to these deadlines, generating realistic expectations, and communicating clearly with clients and other stakeholders.
- Analyze clients' legacy data/data models, and advise them on the best way to clean-up, manipulate and prepare their data for migration into Lyrasis ‐hosted platforms.
- Collaborate with clients with creating data maps, including consulting on solutions for data fields that do not map directly and identifying data functionality tradeoffs in the target system for different mapping options.
- Develop, maintain, and document migration tooling to facilitate the extraction, transformation and loading of legacy data that may also be re-purposed for other migration projects.
- Perform special data manipulation and data cleanup projects on an as-needed basis.
- Provide excellent technical support to Lyrasis hosting clients.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
