AWS PostGres/Reporting SME

Project Description:

Luxoft has been engaged by a leading UK Financial Services organisation to partner on their ambitious Murex modernisation roadmap. This includes three major streams of work: upgrading to the latest version of MX 3.1, migrating from a legacy Sybase deployment to Postgres and migrating from on-premises infrastructure into public cloud.

Luxoft requires a Postgres architect with extensive experience in migrating to AWS Postgres implementations to lead the database migration stream.

You will be working in a high performing team of Luxoft and Client staff to deliver on this multi-phase and complex migration.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting the AWS RDS Postgres based environment

• Leading the database migration stream of the project and working closely with the Murex reporting SMEs on the project

• Migrating existing custom SQL from Sybase to Postgres

• Validating the post-migration reporting that runs on top of SQL queries

• Technical analysis of changes, solution design, development and unit testing

• Participate in fixing production and test defects

• End to end ownership of tasks in cooperation with Business Analysts and Testing team

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 7+ years working as a database administrator / architect

• Extensive experience in working with Postgres in an AWS environment, specifically using RDS

• Experience in migrating from Sybase to Postgres

• Experience in automating RDS Postgres operations including backups, data migrations and imports

• AWS migration experience focused on data migrations between database technologies

• Financial services experience

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in migrating from Sybase to Postgres

• Understanding of Murex reporting and Datamart is a significant bonus