Job Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Database Migration & Modernization Architect to lead large-scale database migration and modernization initiatives on AWS. The role will be responsible for defining the target architecture, migration strategy, modernization roadmap, and technical governance across complex enterprise workloads.

Key Responsibilities

- Assess existing database workloads and identify applications/databases suitable for migration and modernization.
- Define end-to-end database migration and modernization strategy, architecture, and roadmap on AWS.
- Design scalable, highly available, resilient, and secure database solutions using Amazon RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS database services.
- Architect heterogeneous database migrations from on-premises or other cloud platforms to AWS using AWS DMS and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT).
- Define migration patterns, wave planning, cutover strategies, rollback approaches, validation, and post-migration health checks.
- Provide architectural guidance for database modernization, including re-platforming and transformation from legacy/commercial databases to PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Lead database performance, scalability, security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and operational design.
- Establish standards, best practices, reusable migration patterns, and technical runbooks.
- Work closely with application, infrastructure, security, DevOps,



and business teams to resolve migration dependencies and technical risks.
- Conduct architecture reviews, workshops, and technical discussions with senior customer stakeholders.
- Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership throughout migration and modernization programs.

Requirement:

- Robust experience architecting enterprise database solutions on AWS.
- Deep expertise in Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Strong hands-on and architectural knowledge of AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT).
- Experience leading large-scale and heterogeneous database migration programs.
- Strong knowledge of SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or similar enterprise relational databases.
- Experience with database modernization, schema conversion, data migration, performance tuning, and query optimization.
- Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security, encryption, monitoring, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience defining migration strategies, migration waves, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and migration runbooks.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation is preferred.
- Strong stakeholder management, consulting, architecture documentation, and communication skills.
- Typically 12+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in cloud/database architecture and enterprise migration programs.

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