Migration Sme

Thought Machine’s mission is a bold one - to run the world's most innovative banks with technology built for the modern age. What we are attempting is hard, and means we need great people, working together, to build great technology.

We have undergone rapid growth in the past few years - expanding our team to more than 500 individuals across five offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. We've raised more than $340m in funding, raising our valuation to $1bn - and we are working with some of the world’s most competitive banks including JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, Lloyds Banking Group, Curve and Atom bank.

At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best work in the industry. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture - highlighted by FT-backed Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech - as well as having the most generous employee share package in the industry. We've been named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and in the IDC list of top 100 Fintechs.

As we grow our global client base and prove Vault’s Smart Contract capabilities to the market, having a robust process to support the movement of large back-books of existing accounts onto Vault becomes increasingly important to support ongoing growth. Accordingly, data migration is a key focus area for Thought Machine over the next 12-18 months and we are looking for a Migration SME to join our global Migrations Discipline. The Migrations Discipline is responsible for shaping our data migration strategies, testing and proving our migration capability.

Specifically the Migration SME will be responsible for;
(i) Supporting the proving and improvement of our migration product
Using the Thought Machine test hub, design and run technical migration functional and non-functional tests against Vault
Setting up / proving likely client migration pipeline set-ups - testing different API load approaches, reconciling against streamed Vault data and rectifying inaccuracies.

**(ii) Supporting the development of our Migration Capability**:
Analysing upcoming product features to enhance our migration capability
Documenting technical migration guidance for client facing colleagues to use on client engagements - e.g. Vault migration load approaches, best practice, etc.

**(iii) SME support for live migration delivery programmes**:
On occasion, work directly with Thought Machine’s client’s to understand their migration requirements, advise on Vault migration capabilities, and support as needed throughout the migration lifecycle
Supporting client discussions at key touchpoints (e.g. load performance & planning)
Supporting Thought Machine client delivery teams in understanding migration as a concept and the Vault approach, providing SME advice and input as required
**Requirements**:
**Essential**:
Experience working on banking migration programmes
Understanding of core migration concepts and lifecycle, including newer methodologies (cloud architecture, streaming migrations, coexistence etc.)
Familiarity with the ETL process and experience supporting requirements gathering, design, data mapping and data quality activities within a migration context
Experience running technical migration tests at scale, including knowledge of how to set-up and report on test and reconciliation results
Experience working with Python, including usage to support commercial software deployments
Experience working alongside software engineering teams
Experience engaging clients / third parties on migration programmes
Desire and ability to learn and understand retail and business banking products

**Desirable**:
**Experience with the following tech stack**: Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, ELK Stack, AWS, Google Cloud and other Cloud Technologies.
Experience working with Go, including usage to support commercial software deployments
Experience of Payments / Cards migrations and associated functional expertise
Experience with or understanding of agile methodologies

**Benefits**:
Highly competitive salary
Bonus Incentive
Healthcare
20 days holiday + public holidays
All the latest tech you need
A talented & experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress