Engineer – Data Migration and Archival Solutions

About the Role

Our client, a Fortune 50 retail corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Data Migration and Archival Solutions team. Operating one of the largest retail technology ecosystems in the country, our client supports millions of daily transactions across stores, digital platforms, and supply chain operations. This role provides additional engineering capacity to support the archival and retention of entire mainframe footprints in alignment with SOX and retention compliance standards. The engineer will play a critical role in modernizing legacy data systems and ensuring long-term data integrity for one of the nation's most recognized retailers.

Job Description

The Engineer – Data Migration and Archival Solutions will focus on migrating and retaining mainframe data, including DB2, files, and reports, while producing technical runbooks that support portfolio-wide requirements. This position is part of the JVM Stack engineering core and requires close collaboration with the client's internal technology team to deliver scalable, compliant, and high-performing solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and testing code to deliver functionality aligned with business strategy and objectives.
• Building work items needed to implement features from the product backlog.
• Sizing user stories and executing unit tests, automated test scripts, and other testing-related tasks.
• Testing deliverables against user story acceptance criteria.
• Creating and maintaining project documentation.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure features meet business needs.
• Following industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
• Partnering with infrastructure, security, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications: Required Qualifications:

• 3–5 years of experience in an engineering role.
• 1–3 years of experience participating in agile development (user stories, iterative development, etc.).
• Senior-level development experience in Java and Kotlin.
• Senior-level experience with messaging platforms (such as Kafka) and exposure to microservices-based architecture, including consumer and producer implementations and data migration engineering.
• Senior-level experience building and supporting REST APIs.
• Strong database experience with Oracle Exadata, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Solid cloud experience with GCP, GCS, and Azure.
• Experience with ETL design and implementation.
• Experience with test-driven development and software test automation.
• Ability to ramp up quickly on an existing system and contribute with minimal guidance.
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills.
• Availability to work during Minneapolis hours (Central Time).
• Ability to work closely and collaborate effectively with the client's internal technology team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with modular monorepo architecture.
• Experience working on framework-free codebases.
• Ability to work 2 days onsite at the client's Minneapolis office.

Benefits

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: