Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer

Huntsville, AL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer
Location: Huntsville Alabama
Experience: 12 Years
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer who will be responsible for leading end-to-end database migration initiatives across on-premise and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in database architecture performance tuning migration strategy and hands-on migration execution. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams assessing current environments designing target database solutions and ensuring secure scalable and efficient transition with minimal downtime.

Key Responsibilities

Lead database migration projects from initial assessment through planning execution optimization and post-migration support.
Analyze current database platforms schemas stored procedures security rules and data dependencies to determine migration requirements.
Develop detailed migration plans timelines risk assessments cut-over strategies and rollback procedures.
Perform data conversion ETL schema restructuring code rewrites performance tuning and validation.
Mentor engineering and data teams on best practices standards and performance optimization techniques.
Troubleshoot complex database and performance issues during and after migration.
Collaborate with application development DevOps cloud engineering and security teams.
Ensure data integrity compliance auditable migration tracking and minimal service disruption.
Document architectures migration processes runbooks and technical solutions.

Required Qualifications

12 years of hands-on experience in database engineering administration or data migration.
Extensive experience with major databases such as Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL MySQL DB2 or MongoDB.
Proven experience leading large-scale migrations involving cloud platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora Azure SQL GCP Cloud SQL or similar).
Strong knowledge of ETL tools migration utilities and replication technologies (GoldenGate AWS DMS SSIS Informatica Flyway Liquibase or similar).
Expertise in SQL query optimization stored procedures indexing and performance tuning.
Experience with application-database dependency mapping and refactoring.
Strong understanding of data security backup and recovery disaster recovery and high availability.
Ability to architect and document technical solutions clearly.
Excellent communication leadership problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field.

Preferred Skills

Cloud certifications (AWS Azure GCP)
Experience with CI/CD automation for database deployments
Experience in containerized or microservices-based environments
Knowledge of data warehousing solutions

Job Title: Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer Location: Huntsville Alabama Experience: 12 Years Employment Type: Contract Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam Job Description We are seeking an experienced Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer who will be responsible for leading end-to-...

Job Title: Database Migration Specialist Lead Engineer
Location: Huntsville Alabama
Experience: 12 Years
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Lead database migration projects from initial assessment through planning execution optimization and post-migration support.
Analyze current database platforms schemas stored procedures security rules and data dependencies to determine migration requirements.
Develop detailed migration plans timelines risk assessments cut-over strategies and rollback procedures.
Perform data conversion ETL schema restructuring code rewrites performance tuning and validation.
Mentor engineering and data teams on best practices standards and performance optimization techniques.
Troubleshoot complex database and performance issues during and after migration.
Collaborate with application development DevOps cloud engineering and security teams.
Ensure data integrity compliance auditable migration tracking and minimal service disruption.
Document architectures migration processes runbooks and technical solutions.

Required Qualifications

12 years of hands-on experience in database engineering administration or data migration.
Extensive experience with major databases such as Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL MySQL DB2 or MongoDB.
Proven experience leading large-scale migrations involving cloud platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora Azure SQL GCP Cloud SQL or similar).
Strong knowledge of ETL tools migration utilities and replication technologies (GoldenGate AWS DMS SSIS Informatica Flyway Liquibase or similar).
Expertise in SQL query optimization stored procedures indexing and performance tuning.
Experience with application-database dependency mapping and refactoring.
Strong understanding of data security backup and recovery disaster recovery and high availability.
Ability to architect and document technical solutions clearly.
Excellent communication leadership problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field.