Senior Database Migration Engineer (Secret Clearance Required)

Solerity; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

HSA and FSA options

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO

Tuition and training assistance

Employee referral program

Pet insurance

Employee discount program

Job summary

Solerity is seeking a Senior Database Migration Engineer to lead comprehensive migration programs across IGC software development and modernization efforts. You will drive assessments, planning, execution, and post-migration stabilization while coordinating with developers, data engineers, and security teams.

The role requires strong leadership, advanced SQL skills, and hands-on experience with AWS managed databases and migration tools. A Secret clearance or ability to obtain one is preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database engineering/admin/development/migration.
• Experience leading complex enterprise migrations from assessment to production cutover.
• Hands-on with AWS managed relational services (Aurora, RDS).
• Experience migrating Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server to cloud platforms.
• Experience with DMS, SCT, native utilities or equivalent tools.
• Advanced SQL and database development skills.
• Experience with data-quality controls and migration validation.
• Security and compliance-focused mindset with CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration assessment, planning, execution end-to-end.
• Assess legacy platforms, schemas, data volumes, and interfaces.
• Develop migration strategies, plans, risk assessments, and runbooks.
• Migrate to AWS managed platforms (Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Utilize AWS DMS/SCT and scripts for various migration modes.
• Coordinate changes with development teams for target compatibility.
• Develop validation, reconciliation, and data-quality controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

CCSP/CFR/FITSP-M/GSEC/CompTIA Security+/SSCP (certifications)

Tools

AWS DMS

AWS SCT

Aurora PostgreSQL/Aurora MySQL

GitLab CI/CD

Liquibase/Flyway

SQL tooling & scripting (Python/Bash)

Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL migrations

Job description

Description

Solerity is seeking a Senior Database Migration Engineer to support IGC software-development, application-modernization, and database-development activities.

Migration Assessment, Planning & Execution

• Lead end-to-end database migration activities including discovery, assessment, planning, schema conversion, data movement, validation, cutover, rollback planning, and post-migration stabilization.
• Assess legacy database platforms, schemas, data volumes, stored procedures, functions, triggers, indexes, interfaces, application dependencies, security controls, and performance requirements.
• Develop migration strategies, technical plans, schedules, risk assessments, source-to-target mappings, validation criteria, cutover procedures, rollback procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Lead migration of legacy relational databases to approved AWS managed database platforms, including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL or Aurora MySQL where implemented.
• Use AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Schema Conversion Tool, native database utilities, and custom scripts, or comparable approved tools, to support full-load, incremental, change-data-capture, and low-downtime migration approaches.

Database Conversion, Compatibility & Performance

• Convert and remediate database schemas, data types, stored procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, indexes, queries, and proprietary database features for target-platform compatibility.
• Analyze and remediate application, ETL, BI, API, and interface dependencies affected by database-platform changes, coordinating required code and query changes with the applicable development teams.
• Develop and optimize SQL queries, views, functions, stored procedures, indexes, and other database objects supporting application and reporting requirements.
• Analyze execution plans, workloads, locks, connections, database metrics, and resource utilization to resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Define database-layer requirements for availability, resiliency, replication, backup, recovery, failover, and performance within the approved IGC cloud architecture.

Validation, Automation & Secure Delivery

• Develop and execute migration-validation and reconciliation procedures to verify record counts, data relationships, business rules, transformations, calculations, referential integrity, completeness, accuracy, and functional equivalence between source and target platforms.
• Identify data-quality issues and coordinate cleansing, correction, exception handling, and remediation activities with the appropriate data owners and technical teams.
• Develop database and migration automation using SQL, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Liquibase, Flyway, or comparable technologies.
• Integrate database changes, migration scripts, validation routines, and deployment controls into established GitLab CI/CD and configuration-management processes.
• Implement database-specific security controls including least privilege, encryption, secrets management, logging, auditing, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and applicable STIG/RMF evidence.

Documentation & Technical Leadership

• Prepare and maintain database architecture diagrams, data models, data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings, configuration documentation, migration reports, cutover documentation, and operational procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to database administrators, developers, cloud engineers, and migration team members.
• Collaborate with application developers, ETL/data engineers, BI developers, cloud/DevSecOps engineers, cybersecurity personnel, testers, functional analysts, operations staff, and Government stakeholders.

Requirements

• Eight (8+) or more years of experience in database engineering, database administration, database development, data architecture, or database migration.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise database migrations from assessment through production cutover and stabilization.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, or comparable managed relational database services.
• Experience migrating Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or comparable enterprise relational databases to cloud-managed database platforms.
• Experience with AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Schema Conversion Tool, native database utilities, or comparable migration technologies.
• Advanced SQL and database-development skills including schemas, stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience converting schemas and remediating incompatible data types, queries, procedural code, and application dependencies.
• Experience developing migration validation, reconciliation, and data-quality controls.
• Experience with database performance tuning, backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and production stabilization.
• Experience scripting database and migration activities using SQL, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or a comparable language.
• Experience using Git and automated database deployment or CI/CD processes.
• Knowledge of database security, access control, encryption, auditing, secure configuration, and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong technical leadership, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one, as required by assigned duties and contract requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting USTRANSCOM, Department of Defense logistics, or another mission-critical federal system.
• Experience migrating large or highly available databases with minimal downtime using change-data capture, replication, blue-green, or phased migration techniques.
• Experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL/Aurora modernization; familiarity with Teradata or other large-scale enterprise data-warehouse platforms is beneficial where applicable.
• Experience supporting analytics or BI platforms, including Apache Superset, using migrated relational data sources.
• Familiarity with containerized application environments and infrastructure-as-code processes used by cloud/DevSecOps teams.
• AWS, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft, Security+, or related database/cloud certifications.

Education:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related software-engineering discipline; or
• One of the following current certifications: Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), CyberSec First Responder (CFR), Federal IT Security Professional-Manager (FITSP-M), GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC), CompTIA Security+, or Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP).

BENEFITS YOU'LL ENJOY:

• 1. Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 2. Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• 3. 401(k) and company-funded life insurance
• 4. Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 5. Tuition and training assistance
• 6. Financial rewards for employee referrals.
• 7. Pet insurance
• 8. Employee discount program

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

Solerity is committed to the range of perspectives we bring to the marketplace by being an employer dedicated to hiring a highly qualified team of professionals, providing world class services and products aimed at exceeding our customer's expectations. Solerity is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Solerity is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Salary Description

$130k - $145k