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Kunai, part of the PwC Network, builds full-stack technology solutions for financial services. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to lead the migration of a large data platform from Google Cloud Platform to AWS, involving hands-on execution and collaboration with clients.\n\nResponsibilities\nOwn end-to-end data migration execution: Drive the full OLAP/OLTP migration from GCP to AWS: data mapping, schema conversion, and hands-on lift-and-shift execution\nBuild rock-solid synchronization pipelines: Design and implement data sync pipelines with tight SLAs for latency, consistency, and error recovery. Zero ambiguity on failure modes\nBring the target architecture to life: Implement the AWS data architecture end to end, including driver personalization engines and production-grade dashboarding solutions\nMigrate historical and time-series data at scale: Execute large-volume historical data migrations with rigorous integrity checks and minimal disruption to live operations\nBuild observability from the ground up: Create monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation frameworks that give the team real-time confidence in cross-cloud data fidelity\nElevate the team around you: Share your expertise freely. Mentor peers, unblock blockers, and raise the technical floor of the whole engagement\nPartner closely with the client: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with stakeholders to nail data governance, access patterns, and analytics requirements\n\nSkills\nBachelor's Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required\nBigQuery to Redshift, Cloud SQL to Aurora/RDS: you have done this before and have the scars to prove it\nData mapping, schema conversion, and ETL/ELT pipeline design at enterprise scale\nDimensional modeling: star and snowflake schemas, done right\nTransactional database optimization and time-series data migration\nCDC (Change Data Capture), real-time replication, latency tuning\nStrong opinions on eventual vs. strong consistency, and when each applies\nBattle-tested error handling and retry strategies\nRedshift, Aurora PostgreSQL, DMS, Glue, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Lambda, S3, Lake Formation\nAmazon QuickSight, Grafana, dashboarding frameworks, driver personalization engines\nBigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL: you know the terrain you are leaving\nTerraform, CloudFormation, and automated CI/CD for data pipelines\nCloud certifications are a plus but are not required. Any of the following, or equivalent credentials from a major cloud provider, are valued: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty or Database Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud Data Engineer\n\nBenefits\nProfessional development opportunities\nFlexible work arrangements\n\nCompany Overview\nKunai is now part of the PwC network: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/kunai.html ----- Kunai was born from experience. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.kunaico.com.\n\nCompany H1B Sponsorship\nKunai, part of the PwC Network has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 19 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 3 in 2020. 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