Data Archival & Application Decommissioning Consultant

Pacer Group; Carmel (IN); Remote; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Pacer Group is seeking a Lead Enterprise Data Archival Architect for Carmel, IN. You will design and execute end-to-end archival solutions on Platform 3 (Archon) to mitigate data risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize storage costs across production and non-production environments.

You will define warm and cold archival tiers, implement retention and legal hold rules, and oversee secure decommissioning with cross-functional teams, delivering scalable data architecture across the

Qualifications

• Architecture & design for warm archive, cold archive and data bunker.
• Data Retention, Governance & Compliance including WORM, legal hold, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end data archival architectures across production and non-production tiers.
• Design native archival ETL pipelines for extraction, transformation, indexing and load into warm/cold storage.
• Translate retention, legal-hold and regulatory requirements into platform-enforced rules.
• Lead connectivity, schema discovery, data validation and reconciliation for application decommissioning.
• Partner with IT, Security, DBA and Compliance to deliver artifacts and monitoring.

Skills

Architecture & Design

Data Retention

Regulatory Compliance

Job description

Job Title: Data Archival & Application Decommissioning Consultant

Location: Carmel, IN

Work Arrangement: Remote

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 12 months

Domain: IT Services

Pay Rate: $60.00/hr W2 | $75.00/hr C2C

SKILLS REQUIRED

Primary (Must-Have):

• Architecture & Design (Warm Archive, Cold Archive, Data Bunker)
• Data Retention, Governance & Compliance (WORM, Legal Hold, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA)

Secondary (Good to Have):

• Insurance Domain Experience (Life & Annuity, Closed-Block Administration)

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Lead Enterprise Data Archival Architect will join the Enterprise Data & Architecture department, reporting to the Director of Data Infrastructure. The selected candidate will lead the design, implementation, and execution of end-to-end data archival solutions on Platform 3 (Archon). In this role, you will solve critical enterprise challenges around legacy data risk, regulatory compliance, and storage cost optimization by establishing warm/cold archival tiers, defining retention and legal hold rules, and managing secure application decommissioning across production and non-production environments.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define end-to-end data archival architectures, including data store design, ETL pipelines, and source-system discovery across production and non-production tiers.
• Design and oversee the build of native archival ETL pipelines to drive extraction, transformation, indexing, and load operations from legacy source systems into warm and cold storage tiers.
• Translate business retention, legal-hold, and regulatory compliance requirements into platform-enforced data classification, de-identification, and WORM-compliant storage rules.
• Lead source-system connectivity, schema discovery, data validation, volumetric verification, and final reconciliation for application decommissioning.
• Partner with cross-functional IT, Security, DBA, and Compliance teams to deliver design artifacts, develop monitoring dashboards, and manage operational handover.

BENEFITS

Medical | Dental | Vision | 401(k)

EEOC Compliance

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

DISCLAIMER

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