Data Architect, Oracle/GCP, Contract

Overview of 66degrees

66degrees is a leading consulting and professional services company specializing in developing AI-focused, data-led solutions leveraging the latest advancements in cloud technology. With our unmatched engineering capabilities and vast industry experience, we help the world's leading brands transform their business challenges into opportunities and shape the future of work.

Overview of Role

66degrees is seeking a senior contractor to engage on a 2.5 month remote assignment with potential to extend. Interested candidates should have the following required skills and the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment. 

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, guide, and influence the client and teams towards an effective architectural pattern and becoming an interface between business leadership, technology leadership and the delivery teams.
• Perform Migration Assessments and Produce Migration Plans that include
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Migration Architecture
• Migration Timelines
• Application Waves 
• Designing of solution architecture on Google Cloud to support critical workloads
• Heterogenous Oracle Migrations to Postgres or Spanner
• Design a migration path that accounts for the conversion of:
• Application Dependencies
• Database objects
• Data
• Data Pipelines
• Orchestration
• Users and Security
• Oversee migration activities and provide troubleshooting support including:
• Translation of DDL and DML
• Executing data transfers using native Google Cloud and 3rd party tools
• Setup and configuration of relative Google Cloud components
• Engage with customer teams as a Google Cloud expert to provide:
• Education Workshops
• Architectural Recommendations
• Technology reviews and recommendations

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with data engineering, cloud architecture, or working with data infrastructure.
• 5+ years of Oracle database management and IT experience.
• Experience with Oracle Database adjacent products like Golden Gate and Data Guard.
• 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience
• Proven experience in performing performance testing and applying remediations to address performance issues.
• Experience in designing data models
• Proficiency in Python programming language and SQL.
• Advanced SQL skills, including the ability to write, tune, and interpret SQL queries; tool specific experience in the database platforms listed above is ideal.
• Proven experience in migrating and or implementing cloud databases like Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Bigtable

Desired Skills

• Google Cloud Professional Architect and or Data Engineer Certification is preferred

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.

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