Data Architect, Oracle/GCP, Contract

66Degrees.Com - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

About the position

66degrees is seeking a senior contractor for a 2.5 month remote assignment with potential for extension. The role involves guiding clients and teams in effective architectural patterns, performing migration assessments, and designing solutions on Google Cloud to support critical workloads.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, guide, and influence the client and teams towards an effective architectural pattern.
• Act as an interface between business leadership, technology leadership, and delivery teams.
• Perform Migration Assessments and Produce Migration Plans that include Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Migration Architecture, Migration Timelines, and Application Waves.
• Design solution architecture on Google Cloud to support critical workloads.
• Manage Heterogenous Oracle Migrations to Postgres or Spanner.
• Design a migration path that accounts for application dependencies, database objects, data, data pipelines, orchestration, users, and security.
• Oversee migration activities and provide troubleshooting support, including translation of DDL and DML and executing data transfers using native Google Cloud and third-party tools.
• Setup and configure relevant Google Cloud components.
• Engage with customer teams as a Google Cloud expert to provide education, workshops, architectural recommendations, and technology reviews.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

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