Data Architect contractor - Upwork

Upwork has partnered with an Enterprise client that specializes in helping businesses across all industries modernize through cloud adoption to achieve data-driven transformation. Their team of experts leverages the latest Google Cloud technologies and best practices to create customized solutions for each client.

They are currently looking to partner with a Data Architect contractor for a 2.5-month remote assignment with the potential to extend.

Interested candidates should have the following required skills and the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment.

● 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

• 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

• Duration: 10 weeks (40 hrs/wk)
• Google Cloud Professional Architect and or Data Engineer Certification is preferred