Database Migration Technical Lead

What You’ll Do

Teradata Migration and Modernization Center of Excellence (COE) plays a crucial role in assisting our customers in migrating and modernizing their analytical ecosystems to the Cloud. The COE operates in close collaboration with regional teams and customer groups, diligently understanding their migration and modernization journeys to offer tailored roadmaps and solutions that align seamlessly with their business strategies.

The Team Lead is a crucial role that contributes to the success of migrating 3rd party databases on Vantage/Teradata. Team Lead responsibilities includes:

• Drive and lead end to end database migration projects successfully including data, database processes and ETL processes from non-Teradata to Teradata Vantage.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skill and capabilities to lead and bring optimum efficiency from a team of 6 to 8 team.
• Deliver hands-on migration POCs on Vantage.
• Analyze existing data architecture and design to be data architecture.
• Find out the modernization opportunities while migration.  
• Help our customers and partners in designing and planning the migrations.
• Analyze Netezza/Oracle/Snowflake etc. database ETL/ELT code to find out the patterns and build migration and testing strategy of migration.
• Document client’s current analytical ecosystem, application architecture and data flow from non-Teradata to Teradata Vantage solutions.
• Present technical implementation approaches to customers/onsite large teams.
• Mentor developers and other team members to deliver the expected outcome.
• Effective managing and navigating escalations involving onsite teams and customers.
• Guide teams in moving priorities and changes in scope. Estimate effort and schedule for the changes that arise during project execution.
• Thoroughly assess and proactively highlight project-related technical risks and corresponding mitigations to project stakeholders during meetings.
• Create documents and other relevant assets/learning.
• Look for automation opportunities to bring down the overall effort and schedule of the project.
• Learn new modern Vantage features and integrate in the solutions.

 Who You’ll Work With 

These positions offer a unique opportunity to work with market leaders in their respective fields. As a valued member of our COE, you will join a team with an impressive track record of successfully executing migration and modernization projects for Fortune 500 companies. 

This role requires you will engage directly with Teradata offshore and onshore leadership and customer technical leadership teams. You will become an integral part of a dynamic, technically driven, and innovative group dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients.  

 What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Bachelor’s Degree from a reputed Educational Institute

• A post-graduate degree is a plus

Technical Skills

• 10+ years of demonstrated database technology experience in architecting and successfully building highly scalable data solutions.
• Should have a good understanding of Vantage/Teradata architecture.
• Comfortable in analyzing existing code complex shell scripts, SQLs, and Stored Procedures and converting them into Teradata/Vantage.
• Must have executed at least 2 end-to-end Database Migration projects (preferably in Teradata/Vantage migrations) in Tech. Lead capacity.
• Basic cloud certification in AWS/Azure or GCP.
• Fair understating of any one the Cloud storage services such as AWS S3, Azure Storage Services, and Google Cloud Storage.

Consultative Skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills required to influence technical, business, and executive audiences.
• Use various communication methods/tools to convey messages to the customers and other teams.
• Able to present it to customers, group meetings of 10+ people, and drive technical and methodology discussions.
• Proactive and results-oriented; conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure.
• Flexible, hardworking, and self-motivated, with a positive attitude and the initiative to take on difficult challenges.
• Ability to elicit functional and non-functional requirements as needed to scope solution opportunities combining hardware, software, and service components. 

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in database data and ETL/ELT migrations.
• Solid understanding in one or more analytical databases’ architecture and strengths and weaknesses.
• Passion to learn new modern technologies and new ways of delivering solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.