Senior Oracle GoldenGate Migration Engineer

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Team (Project) Introduction
The Office of Performance Analysis and Integritymanagesand enhances the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) whichresideson one Oracle M8 Supercluster database and thirteen application servers. Our team provides the technical servicesto sustain EDW applications to include Project Management Data Warehouse Management Advanced Analytics Tableau Server Administration/Tableau Desktop Administration Technical Collaboration Support Lessons Learned Executive Orders and Special Projects Architectural Enhancement and Cloud Migration. We also provide management enhancement integration implementation maintenance modernization and infrastructure support for EDW applications as well as enhancement and maintenance of business intelligence capabilities and predictive analytics.

9thWay Insignia is looking for a Senior Oracle GoldenGate Migration Engineer to join and lead this team.

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Oracle GoldenGate Migration Engineerto support migration of the VA Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) from an on-premises Oracle environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within the VA Enterprise Cloud environment. The selected candidate will lead the migration of Oracle GoldenGate from Classic Architecture to Microservices Architecture configure secure connectivity between OCI-hosted GoldenGate services and on-premises source systems and validate reliable accurate data replication throughout the migration and stabilization period.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the migration of Oracle GoldenGate from Classic Architecture to Microservices Architecture in OCI.
• Assess and document existing GoldenGate Extract Pump Replicat trail checkpoint credential parameter-file and monitoring configurations.
• Design configure deploy and troubleshoot GoldenGate Microservices components in the target OCI environment.
• Establish and validate secure hybrid connectivity between OCI-hosted GoldenGate services and on-premises source systems.
• Configure and maintain GoldenGate processes endpoints credentials trails monitoring and replication parameters.
• Execute migration testing replication validation cutover rehearsals deployment rollback and post-implementation stabilization activities.
• Monitor and troubleshoot replication lag Extract/Replicat failures network interruptions data inconsistencies mapping conflicts duplicate transactions and performance issues.
• Collaborate with OCI infrastructure network/security Oracle DBA Informatica and EDW technical teams to resolve dependencies and support migration readiness.
• Support OCI setup configuration provisioning access/privilege planning capacity planning monitoring and operational-readiness activities.
• Create and maintain technical designs configuration documentation test plans validation evidence cutover procedures rollback procedures and operations runbooks.
• Support change control issue management root-cause analysis knowledge transfer and production-readiness reviews.
• Follow applicable VA security architecture configuration-management and change-control processes.

Requirements:

• Minimum 10yearsof relevant experience inhands-on Oracle GoldenGate administration configuration deployment troubleshooting and production support experience.
• Direct experience migrating or upgrading Oracle GoldenGate from Classic Architecture to Microservices Architecture.
• Hands-on OCI implementation experience including provisioning configuration deployment or hybrid connectivity support.
• Experience supporting Oracle Database 19c environments.
• Strong SQL skills and practical understanding of Oracle transaction processing and replication behavior.
• Experience with migration testing data validation/reconciliation cutover planning and rollback planning.
• Strong troubleshooting documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required VA suitability/access authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience deploying OCI GoldenGate while maintaining connectivity to on-premises Oracle source systems.
• Oracle RAC Data Guard RMAN ASM Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle performance-tuning experience.
• OCI networking IAM vault/secrets management logging/monitoring compute storage and private/hybrid connectivity experience.
• Experience supporting high-volume data warehouses or other mission-critical enterprise data platforms.
• Informatica PowerCenter ETL/ELT automated data reconciliation or test-automation experience.
• VA VA Enterprise Cloud federal or regulated-environment delivery experience.
• Oracle GoldenGate and/or OCI certifications.

9thWay Insignias range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

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