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You will not be reviewing architecture diagrams from the sidelines; you will be building the pipelines, designing the schemas, and making the hard calls that keep petabytes of critical financial data moving accurately and on schedule. \nIf you thrive in technically demanding environments, love solving gnarly data problems, and want your fingerprints on an enterprise-scale transformation, this engagement is for you. \nWhat You Will Do \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. 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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. \nWhat You Bring \nData Migration \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 \nOLAP and OLTP Systems \nDimensional modeling: star and snowflake schemas, done right \nTransactional database optimization and time-series data migration \nData Synchronization \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 \nAWS Data Services \nRedshift, Aurora PostgreSQL, DMS, Glue, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Lambda, S3, Lake Formation \nAnalytics and Personalization \nAmazon QuickSight, Grafana, dashboarding frameworks, driver personalization engines \nGCP \nBigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL: you know the terrain you are leaving \nInfrastructure as Code and CI/CD \nTerraform, CloudFormation, and automated CI/CD for data pipelines \nCertifications \nCloud certifications are a plus but are not required. 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