Data Migration Engineer

About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.

Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits.

We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:

• Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity
• Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return
• Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology
• Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!
• Celebrating the wins & milestones of others
• Assuming good intent & demonstrating trust in others
• Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves & creates space to be human

Find our core values & more here.

Position Summary

A Virtuous Data Migration Engineer will be in charge of extracting, mapping, formatting, and importing client data from legacy systems to Virtuous for our biggest and most sophisticated nonprofit customers. Common legacy systems include but are not limited to Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, Salesforce, DonorPerfect, etc.

They must understand data structure, determine data relationships and become a Virtuous expert to properly map data into the most strategic areas within Virtuous. Virtuous Data Migration Engineers manage migrations that are most often seen as complex and custom, without a predetermined mapping structure.

This role requires proficient knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

Exceptional time management, organization, and the ability to work with a project manager to set and meet deadlines is a necessity. This is a customer facing role with an average of 6-12 hours of customer facing time per week. Oftentimes customers will be organizational leaders and will require professional communication skills.

This role, though collaborative, will require a self driven individual who is extremely detail oriented and is comfortable problem solving complex data issues and integrating small details with higher-level customer data strategy. Must have an aptitude for learning software and innovation.

In this role you will...

• Understand the varying needs of nonprofits, and how to migrate associated fundraising data to Virtuous in line with best practices
• Get excited about mapping, joining, transforming and cleaning large, complex data sets using ETL tools with an emphasis on SQL
• Feel comfortable scoping complex migrations with our nonprofit customers during and/or post sale to help determine an implementation project plan
• Collaborate with our internal team on data migration strategy, tooling, and questions

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working in Data Migration and/or a SQL / dbt environment
• Experience writing complex SQL scripts and transformations
• Experience with dbt is a strong plus
• Experience with Snowflake is a plus
• Experience with GitHub is a plus
• Knowledge of XML, SSMS and Python is a plus
• Experience working with nonprofit software is a plus
• Comprehensive understanding of the ETL process
• Deep knowledge & understanding of database design, setup, and maintenance
• Interest in becoming an expert in nonprofit fundraising and Virtuous products
• Strong written and oral communication skills and a collaborative approach to implementing new processes

What We Offer

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