Teradata Migration Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute Teradata-to-Databricks migration projects.
• Analyze existing Teradata databases, tables, views, SQL logic, stored procedures and ETL workflows.
• Design and implement migration solutions on Databricks Lakehouse.
• Develop scalable data pipelines using PySpark and Databricks.
• Build and optimize data processing using Delta Lake.
• Implement data governance, security and access control using Unity Catalog.
• Modernize legacy ETL processes and migrate them to Databricks-based pipelines.
• Perform source-to-target mapping, data transformation and reconciliation.
• Conduct migration validation, data quality checks and performance testing.
• Optimize Databricks workloads for performance, scalability and cost.
• Support migration cutover, production deployment and post-migration stabilization.
• Collaborate with architects, business stakeholders and engineering teams to resolve migration challenges.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members and contribute to migration best practices.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Teradata-to-Databricks migration.
• Strong Databricks experience.
• Strong PySpark / Spark SQL skills.
• Strong knowledge of Delta Lake.
• Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog.
• Experience in ETL/ELT modernization.
• Strong SQL and data warehousing concepts.
• Experience with data migration, reconciliation and validation.
• Good understanding of Lakehouse architecture.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Teradata SQL, stored procedures and legacy ETL workloads.
• Experience with Bronze/Silver/Gold or Medallion architecture.
• Experience with Databricks Workflows / Jobs / DLT.
• Experience with CI/CD and Git-based deployment.
• Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud data platforms.
• Experience in performance tuning and optimization of Spark/Databricks workloads.

Ideal Candidate

Candidates who have personally executed Teradata-to-Databricks migration projects will be strongly preferred over candidates who only have generic Databricks development experience.