Database Migration Specialist An exciting opportunity has opened up for an experienced Database Migration Specialist to join a well-established organisation on a key data consolidation project. You’ll be working within a collaborative technology delivery function, helping move critical data from legacy platforms into a up-to-date, purpose-built schema.
This role suits a hands-on database skilled with deep Oracle and SQL expertise who enjoys solving complex data problems and seeing a migration through from analysis to clean cutover.
WHAT’S ON OFFER
- Initial 2-month contract with rolling extensions
- Daily rate of $900 inclusive of superannuation
- Immediate start available
- Hands-on role on a meaningful, well-defined migration project
- Collaborative team environment working alongside experienced database professionals
- Perth based
THE ROLE Sitting within the technology delivery team, you’ll work closely with two in-house database specialists to compare existing schemas and migrate data from two legacy databases, including a third-party system, into a newly designed target database. Accuracy, data integrity, and a clean transition are central to success.
Key responsibilities include
- Accessing and analysing data held in a third-party legacy database
- Performing detailed schema comparisons across two legacy databases and the recent target schema
- Mapping, transforming, and migrating data into the new structure
- Writing and optimising complex SQL to support extraction, validation,
and reconciliation
- Building scripts and automation to streamline migration tasks
- Validating migrated data and resolving discrepancies with the wider team
- Documenting mappings, transformation rules, and migration outcomes
THE COMPANY Our client is a large, well-regarded organisation with a dedicated technology function focused on modernising its systems and improving how data is managed and used across the business.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle and SQL, including complex queries, joins, CTEs, subqueries, and views
- Proven experience delivering database schema comparisons and legacy data migrations
- Strong database design and modelling skills, including ERDs, normalisation/denormalization, and star or snowflake schemas
- Experience across relational and non-relational platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or Cassandra
- ETL and data pipeline experience using tools like Apache Airflow, dbt, or custom scripting
- Programming ability in Python, Java, C#, or R for automation and database interaction
- High attention to detail and a methodical approach to data integrity
Please note: Applicants must have full Australian working rights to be considered for this role. To apply, please submit your CV in Word format via the link below, or email
[email protected] for a confidential discussion.
Only suitable candidates will be contacted.
📌 Database Migration Specialist (Perth)
🏢 Full Circle Partners
📍 Perth