Senior Database Specialist Lead (R-00178)

About This Opportunity

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai is representing a confidential technology services organization in their search for a Senior Database Specialist Lead. This position offers the opportunity to lead complex database migration initiatives for a growing firm recognized for its technical excellence and commitment to its people.

This role is based in the United States and requires the ability to obtain security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end database migration initiatives, including discovery, assessment, planning, execution, validation, and post-migration stabilization
• Develop detailed migration strategies, roadmaps, schedules, dependencies, rollback procedures, and cutover plans
• Assess source and target database environments to identify compatibility issues, data dependencies, technical risks, and migration constraints
• Select appropriate migration approaches, including rehosting, re-platforming, refactoring, replication, bulk migration, and phased migration
• Coordinate structured migrations between on-premises, cloud, hybrid, relational, and non-relational database environments
• Lead migration rehearsals, dry runs, production cutovers, and post-migration validation activities
• Minimize system downtime and data loss by implementing replication, change data capture, synchronization, and high-availability migration techniques
• Develop contingency and rollback procedures to support business continuity during migration events
• Analyze legacy database structures, schemas, tables, relationships, stored procedures, triggers, views, indexes, and data types
• Translate source database structures into optimized target-state schemas
• Perform schema mapping and conversion across different database technologies and platforms
• Resolve differences in data types, naming conventions, constraints, indexing models, partitioning strategies, and database-specific functionality

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 7+ years of industry-related experience required
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Experience performing security engineering functions
• Experience developing and modifying scripts
• Experience mapping inheritance and Common Control Catalogs
• Experience developing or tuning Risk Scoring
• Ability to obtain security clearance

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and coordination will flow through our team to ensure a smooth process for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.