Position: DB2 & Cloud Migration Architect

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Job type: Full time/Permanent hiring

As a DB2 & Cloud Migration Architect, you will serve as the principal technical authority driving the end-to-end modernization of our enterprise data tier. Operating with 10 years of deep database engineering expertise, you will assess complex legacy on-premises IBM DB2 environments and design resilient, highly available target-state cloud architectures on AWS or Azure. This role bridges the gap between classic enterprise database infrastructure and modern, code-driven cloud automation.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Architecture Governance: Define, document, and enforce global IBM DB2 database architectures, engineering standards, and target cloud landing zones.
- Workplace Assessment: Conduct deep-dive technical evaluations of existing DB2 environments—analyzing schemas, stored procedures, execution performance, and application dependencies.
- Resilience & HA/DR Design: Architect zero-downtime, highly available database topologies covering HADR, advanced replication, stringent RPO/RTO parameters, and disaster recovery.
- Performance Optimization: Lead advanced DB2 performance tuning, query/SQL execution optimization, capacity planning, and tier-3 database troubleshooting.
- Cloud Migration Strategy: Design comprehensive source-to-target migration frameworks leveraging Rehost, Replatform, Refactor,



and Modernize blueprints to transition DB2 workloads onto cloud engines (e.g., Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, or cloud-hosted DB2).
- Execution & Lifecycle Management: Author comprehensive migration runbooks (covering sync, validation, cutover, rollback, and hypercare) and lead cross-functional DevOps, cloud, and security teams through production cutovers.
- Database Automation: Infuse modern DevOps practices into data management by automating infrastructure provisioning and deployment pipelines using modern CI/CD tooling.

Required Technical Competencies

- Experience: 10 years of dedicated database engineering and enterprise architecture experience with a primary focus on IBM DB2.
- Cloud Modernization: Proven, hands-on track record migrating legacy database footprints to public cloud target environments (AWS or Microsoft Azure).
- Target Architectures: High proficiency evaluating target cloud engines, including AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or DB2 hosted directly on cloud VM infrastructures (IaaS).
- HA/DR Mechanisms: Deep technical execution of DB2 HADR, replication technologies, backup validation, and architectural alignment with strict enterprise RPO/RTO mandates.
- Database Automation & CI/CD: Hands-on experience developing infrastructure as code and automated data deployment workflows using tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.

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