Senior Data Migration Architect: Cloud Modernisation

ikas international (asia) pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

iKas International (Asia) Pte Ltd is seeking a Principal / Lead Data Migration Architect to drive the data migration strategy for a large-scale enterprise platform transformation, leading complex legacy migrations to a cloud-native platform and ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

You will partner with Architects, engineering, product managers, and stakeholders to define strategies, modernise data models, and establish a scalable data foundation for future capabilities, with a focus

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise database architecture or data migration on large platforms.
• Proven track record delivering legacy modernisation or platform transformations.
• Expert SQL and database performance optimisation experience.
• Strong enterprise data modelling and normalised transactional models.
• Hands-on ETL/ELT design and migration framework experience.
• Data validation, reconciliation, and migration QA expertise.
• Familiarity with CDC, replication, and incremental migration strategies.
• Experience with cloud databases (RDS/Aurora) and multi-terabyte migrations.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end data migration strategy for a large-scale platform modernisation.
• Analyse and reverse-engineer legacy schemas, data models, and business rules.
• Design target data models aligned with cloud-native architectures.
• Develop phased migration approaches minimising disruption and risk.
• Lead data mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and migration.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and traceability throughout the lifecycle.
• Design and implement migration tooling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and reconciliation frameworks.
• Establish data governance for master/reference/historical data.
• Drive database optimisation, readiness, performance tuning, and cutover planning.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to transition processes to the new platform.

Skills

Data migration

Enterprise architecture

SQL performance

Cloud DB

Data modelling

CDC

ETL/ELT

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

DB2

Amazon RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

Job description

iKas International (Asia) Pte Ltd is seeking a Principal / Lead Data Migration Architect to drive the data migration strategy for a large-scale enterprise platform transformation, leading complex legacy migrations to a cloud-native platform and ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

You will partner with Architects, engineering, product managers, and stakeholders to define strategies, modernise data models, and establish a scalable data foundation for future capabilities, with a focus