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DB2 Architect – Cloud Migration || Toronto, ON || Fulltime FTE

DB2 Architect – Cloud Migration || Toronto, ON || Fulltime FTE

Acestack • Toronto, ON, Canada
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Job Title: DB2 Architect Cloud Migration
Job Location: Toronto, ON
Work Mode: Onsite
Employment Type: Full-Time (FTE) Permanent
Total Experience: 10+ Years

Must have experience of Database Migration, from DB2 to Azure Cloud.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DB2 Architect with 10+ years of database engineering and architecture experience, strong expertise in IBM DB2, and hands-on exposure to cloud migration and modernization. The candidate will be responsible for assessing existing DB2 environments, defining target-state database architecture, developing migration strategies, and supporting end-to-end database migration from on-premises platforms to Azure/AWS.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and govern DB2 database architecture, engineering standards, and best practices.

  • Assess existing DB2 environments, including database size, schemas, stored procedures, performance, integrations, and application dependencies.

  • Design highly available and resilient DB2 solutions covering HADR, backup/recovery, replication, security, RPO/RTO, and disaster recovery.

  • Lead DB2 performance tuning, SQL/query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, and database troubleshooting.

  • Define cloud migration strategies using Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, and Modernize patterns.

  • Develop source-to-target architecture, database migration patterns, sizing, connectivity, security, and HA/DR designs.

  • Evaluate DB2 modernization options, including migration to Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, or DB2 hosted on cloud infrastructure.

  • Develop migration runbooks covering data migration, synchronization, validation, cutover, rollback, and hypercare.

  • Support migration wave planning, dependency analysis, migration rehearsals, production cutover, and post-migration stabilization.

  • Collaborate with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and business teams throughout the migration lifecycle.

  • Drive database automation and CI/CD using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in database engineering and architecture.

  • Strong hands-on expertise in IBM DB2 database architecture and administration.

  • Proven experience with DB2 cloud migration and database modernization.

  • Strong understanding of DB2 performance tuning, SQL optimization, indexing, HADR, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.

  • Experience designing and implementing database migration strategies across Azure and/or AWS.

  • Knowledge of Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, and Aurora.

  • Experience with migration planning, data validation, cutover, rollback, and production stabilization.

  • Exposure to database automation and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.

  • Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership, and architectural documentation skills.

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DB2 Architect – Cloud Migration || Toronto, ON || Fulltime FTE • Toronto, ON, Canada