**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** Data Migration Architect role involves technical deign and leadership of the end-to-end delivery of the legacy data migration projects. The role will involve providing technical leadership in pre-sales to support new business activities. We are looking for an experienced Data Migration Architect with a successful track record in both legacy and relational Database/Data migrations. You will have the responsibility for the developing the Data migration solution and providing technical leadership to ensure successful delivery of data migration activities. You will be responsible for leading all aspects of the data migration solution from creating the logical data model, creating the new database schema, migrating the data, testing and verifying the data is correct, resolving issues and conflicts, providing documentation, training and handing over to support. This is a leading client facing role and you will be responsible for ensuring that effective communications and relationships are maintained between the customer and project team. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Legacy mainframe database implementation and administration experience in either IMS, IDMS, RDB or DB2. * Proven relational database design, implementation, and administration experience in either Oracle or SQL Server including their data migration and integration utilities * A track record in leading large complex data migrations between multiple source and target architectures * Technical leadership to create and deliver the Logical Data Model and Physical Database design * Additional experience of non-database file systems such as VSAM **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Good understanding of legacy programming languages such as COBOL * Experience in scripting languages such as Perl, Python and Powershell * Excellent client facing skills i.e. well presented and good interpersonal skills