Jobs → Data & Analytics → Data Migration Lead

About the Role We are looking for an experienced Data Migration Lead to drive a large-scale enterprise database modernization initiative involving migration of transactional and analytical workloads into AWS. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, approximately 50% hands-on technical execution and 50% leadership. Key Responsibilities • Lead end-to-end enterprise database migration and modernization initiatives • Develop migration runbooks, playbooks, standards, and repeatable processes • Plan and lead mock migrations, production cutovers, validation, and stabilization • Provide technical direction and oversight to Data Engineers • Review and validate migration designs and engineering approaches • Handle data cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, and source-to-target validation • Identify migration risks, architectural issues, and technical dependencies • Participate in architecture discussions and recommend improvements • Ensure reliable data movement between transactional databases and analytical platforms Requirements • Strong hands-on experience leading enterprise-scale database migrations • Strong AWS and transactional database experience • Experience migrating SQL Server / Azure SQL to PostgreSQL-based environments • Strong SQL skills and database troubleshooting experience • Hands-on experience with data cleansing, transformation, and validation • Databricks experience, including data ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and Medallion Architecture • Experience leading engineers while remaining technically hands-on Additional Experience • Source-to-target mapping and schema conversion • Mock migrations, production cutover, and post-migration stabilization • Databricks Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) • Power BI and downstream analytical reporting