Database Engineer – Forward Deployed

🕒 October 31

🌐 United States, Colombia, +5 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

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Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Modus Create is a digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to helping clients build competitive advantage through digital innovation. Our global team of strategists, designers, and technologists has helped the world’s biggest brands deliver powerful experiences. We specialize in strategic consulting, full lifecycle product development, platform modernization, and digital operations.

📋 Description

• Lead technical pre-sales engagements, including executive conversations, workshops, and proof-of-concepts • Architect and deliver database migration strategies across re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-factoring pathways • Execute migrations involving AWS EC2, RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and Oracle/Exadata to ODB@AWS • Identify repeatable patterns and translate them into scalable, reusable architectural IP • Develop GenAI-enabled database migration accelerators • Deconstruct complex technical propositions into clear, repeatable solutions for sales teams and clients • Gather market segment data and build business cases connecting current infrastructure to client outcomes • Influence senior technical and business stakeholders on data modernization strategy • Create mechanisms, enablement assets, and documentation to scale impact • Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams in a fully distributed, asynchronous-first environment

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience with database migration and modernization projects, ideally involving AWS data services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, DMS, SCT) • Deep proficiency in one or more relational database platforms: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server, including schema design, query optimization, and replication • Proven ability to architect and implement data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and integration patterns at scale • Experience with Oracle or Exadata migrations, including assessment, schema conversion, and cutover planning, is strongly valued • Solid understanding of AWS infrastructure fundamentals: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and compute/storage considerations for database workloads • Comfort operating in pre-sales and client-facing contexts • Ability to lead proof-of-concept engagements end-to-end: scope, build, validate, and present results to senior stakeholders • Strong software engineering fundamentals; ability to write clean, maintainable code and understand data engineering within broader application architectures • Experience working in distributed, async-first teams • NoSQL experience, GenAI-assisted data migration tooling, AWS certifications, data lakehouse architectures, Apache Iceberg, Glue, Athena, consulting/professional services/solutions engineering, and open-source contributions are bonus points

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Collaborative, innovative environment • Fully distributed, asynchronous-first environment • Opportunities to work with Fortune 500 clients • Autonomy to define solutions • Support to deliver solutions • Recognition for successful outcomes • Work at the intersection of data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and generative AI • Collaboration with a globally distributed team

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