Database Architect (Outside IR35)

Database Modernisation Architect

About the role: Own the architecture and decision framework for modernising SQL Server workloads onto AWS database platforms. Balance strategic modernisation with migration deadline certainty, including when an interim RDS SQL Server step is the correct decision.

Experience

• Deep SQL Server expertise

• PostgreSQL

• Advanced T-SQL

• Amazon RDS

• Aurora PostgreSQL

• Production database migrations

• Schema and code conversion

• Data reconciliation and validation

• Performance tuning

• High availability and disaster recovery

• Cutover and rollback design

• Architecture leadership

Desirable experience

• AWS DMS

• AWS SCT

• AWS Transform for SQL

• AWS Glue

• Large-scale database migration factory

• Healthcare or regulated-industry experience

• Python or automation tooling