Senior Azure Solution Architect + DBA + Data migration experience

Job Title: Lead / Principal Cloud Database Migration Engineer

Experience Required: 10+ Years

Work Location: Cloud & Infrastructure Practice

Position Overview

Senior technical leader responsible for architecting and physically executing enterprise-scale on-premises to cloud database migrations. This role requires deep expertise across relational and NoSQL database engines, infrastructure-as-code automation, and zero-downtime migration strategies within Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Migration Execution & Engineering: Lead hands-on end-to-end database migrations from on-premise environments to Azure Cloud, implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) and cutover strategies to ensure low-to-zero downtime.
• Architecture & HA/DR: Design capacity planning, scaling models, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, and point-in-time recovery strategies for enterprise databases.
• Schema Transformation & Validation: Perform dependency mapping, schema conversion, compatibility remediation, data validation, and post-migration reconciliation to ensure data integrity.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Diagnose critical performance degradation, resource bottlenecks, and query latency issues. Tune and optimize post-migrated workloads for scalability and cost management.
• Cross-Functional Operations: Partner with Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, and Application development teams to embed database deployments into automated CI/CD pipelines.

Mandatory Skills & Technical Stack

DomainCore Technologies & CompetenciesDatabase EnginesMS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDBCloud PlatformAzure Cloud Services (Managed Instances, Azure SQL, Flexible Server, Cosmos DB)IaC & AutomationTerraform, JenkinsOrchestration & ToolsKubernetes (AKS)Monitoring & LoggingSplunkCore MethodologiesZero/Low Downtime Migrations, Schema Conversion, Data Reconciliation, HA/DR Architecture

Regards

Nagarathna G

Team Lead Delivery

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