Senior Data Migration Consultant​/Data Migration Lead; AWS GovCloud

Senior Data Migration Consultant / Data Migration Lead (AWS Gov Cloud)

Seeking an experienced Senior Data Migration Consultant to lead and execute a large-scale enterprise data migration initiative for a government-regulated environment. The consultant will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing secure, repeatable, and auditable migration processes to move data from legacy database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, or similar technologies) into AWS Gov Cloud-hosted target environments utilizing Amazon RDS for MySQL and/or Amazon RDS for SQL Server while ensuring compliance with stringent security and regulatory requirements.

1. Migration Strategy & Planning

2. Analyze source systems and data structures.

3. Develop comprehensive migration strategies supporting:

• Full data loads
• Incremental migrations
• Delta/CDC-based migration approaches

4. Create migration plans, rollback procedures, and risk mitigation strategies.

5. Perform dependency and integration impact analysis.

6. Data Transformation & Mapping

7. Develop data transformation specifications based on business requirements.

8. Create source-to-target mappings at table and column levels.

1. Data transformation rules

2. Data normalization requirements

3. Data quality standards

4. Validation and reconciliation approaches

1. Design and develop reusable migration scripts using: SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL

2. Equivalent database-native scripting languages

1. Pre-migration validation scripts

2. Data readiness assessment scripts

3. Conflict detection scripts

4. Migration execution scripts

5. Reporting and audit scripts

1. Migration Execution

2. Execute migration activities across:

• Staging environments
• Production environments

3. Support multiple migration cycles for testing, validation, and production cutover.

4. Analyze migration results and resolve defects.

5. Perform data reconciliation and validation activities.

6. Generate migration reports and present findings to stakeholders.

1. Produce comprehensive migration documentation.

2. Maintain audit trails and migration execution records.

1. Data Transformation Specifications

2. Migration Plans

3. Migration Scripts Documentation

4. Migration Execution Reports

5. Data Validation Reports

1.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. Master's degree preferred.

2. 8+ years of database development and data migration experience.

3. 5+ years of enterprise-scale migration project experience.

4. Proven experience migrating data from:
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Other enterprise RDBMS platforms

1. SQL

2. T-SQL

3. PL/SQL

4. Database migration and ETL development.

5. Data modeling and data transformation.

6. Data quality management and reconciliation.

7. Performance optimization of large-volume data migrations.

8. Cloud Technologies

1. AWS Gov Cloud (preferred)

2. Amazon RDS for MySQL

3. Amazon RDS for SQL Server

4. Understanding of cloud security and compliance requirements.