Teradata Architect

  • Plano, TX
  • Posted 19 hours ago | Updated 2 hours ago

Overview

Hybrid
Up to $70
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Teradata Architect
Teradata migration
ETL

Job Details

Teradata Architect

Primary focus: Lead enterprise-scale Teradata architecture and migration initiatives.
Architectural Design & Strategy:

  • Design end-to-end Teradata architectural solutions for large-scale banking and regulatory platforms.
  • Evaluate on-prem to cloud or legacy to modern Teradata migration paths; create technical migration blueprints.
  • Define data distribution, partitioning strategies, workload management (TASM), and performance optimization approaches.

Migration Execution & Engineering:

  • Lead the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) processes required to migrate high-volume financial datasets.
  • Develop and validate migration scripts, batch jobs, and Teradata BTEQ, TPump, FastLoad, and FastExport utilities.
  • Perform Teradata version upgrades, database refreshes, and schema migrations with zero/minimal downtime.

Performance Engineering

  • Conduct performance assessments of SQL queries, physical data models, and workload behaviors.
  • Tune system parameters, indexes, statistics, and storage strategies for optimal throughput.

Production Support & Reliability:

  • Oversee the production health of Teradata environments, including incident triage, root-cause analysis, and post-migration stabilization.
  • Implement best practices for monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failover.
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