Data Solution Architect

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect you directly help clients transform their business  and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms.  You are a technical leader serving as a liaison among business partners technical resources and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Data Solution Architect role involves technical deign and leadership of the end-to-end delivery of the legacy data migration projects. The role will involve providing technical leadership in pre-sales to support new business activities. We are looking for an experienced Data Solution Architect with a successful track record in both legacy and relational Database/Data migrations.
You will have the responsibility for the developing the Data migration solution and providing technical leadership to ensure successful delivery of data migration activities. You will be responsible for leading all aspects of the data migration solution from creating the logical data model creating the new database schema migrating the data testing and verifying the data is correct resolving issues and conflicts providing documentation training and handing over to support. This is a leading client facing role and you will be responsible for ensuring that effective communications and relationships are maintained between the customer and project team.

• Have extensive experience in the IBM ModernSystems modernisation Database and Data migration toolset

• Develop the data and file conversion solutions for our migration projects

• Provide technical leadership for all aspects of the data and file conversion tasks

• Maintain an awareness of technological developments and best practice and adapt and apply new ideas as appropriate

• Deliver and promote quality excellence and continuous service improvement

• Keep abreast of new features and functions made available within the IBM ModernSystems products

• Provide pre-sales support to help shape data migration solutions and proposals

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Legacy mainframe database implementation and administration experience in either IMS IDMS RDB or DB2.

• Proven relational database design implementation and administration experience in either Oracle or SQL Server including their data migration and integration utilities

• Additional experience of non-database file systems such as VSAM would be an advantage

• A track record in leading large complex data migrations between multiple source and target architectures

• Technical leadership to create and deliver the Logical Data Model and Physical Database design

• Good understanding of legacy programming languages such as COBOL

• Experience in scripting languages such as Perl Python and Powershell

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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