Technical Solution Engineer (TSE) – Cloud Migration Engineer
Job Role: Technical Solution Engineer / Cloud Migration Engineer
Skill Area: Cloud Migration / Data Migration / SQL
Seniority: Journeyman
Location: Remote – EU only
Language: English – professional working proficiency; German B2–C1 mandatory
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Technical Solution Engineer (TSE) to join a large-scale international cloud migration project.
The project involves migrating customers from an on-premises financial planning and analysis platform to a modern, secure cloud-based SaaS environment. The TSE is a key role within the migration process and will be responsible for analyzing customer environments, supporting application and data migration activities, validating migrated environments, and ensuring successful technical handover and customer acceptance.
The role requires a strong combination of SQL, application/data migration, technical troubleshooting, and customer-oriented communication skills.
Candidates must be comfortable with a 5–8 week onboarding program and must understand that the client invests significant time and resources in technical training. Therefore, candidates are expected to commit to remaining on the project for as long as required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a key technical role in the migration of customer environments from on-premises installations to the cloud SaaS platform.
- Analyze existing customer environments, including application and database components.
- Support the setup and configuration of dedicated cloud environments for individual customers.
- Execute and coordinate migration activities covering both application and customer data.
- Perform SQL-based data analysis, validation, troubleshooting, and verification.
- Validate migrated databases and data to ensure completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
- Analyze migration issues and identify potential data or configuration problems.
- Support and configure ETL processes used for data imports from ERP systems.
- Adjust and validate customer-specific data import and transformation processes.
- Execute technical verification after migration and support customer acceptance activities.
- Work with internal migration, development, support, and customer-facing teams to resolve technical issues.
- Use internal automation tools for deployment and migration activities and perform manual technical validation where required.
- Monitor migrated environments for performance, stability, and operational issues.
- Support maintenance activities, including regular backups and environment checks.
- Create and maintain technical documentation related to migration activities and customer environments.
- Follow strict data protection, security, quality, and compliance procedures due to the financial nature of the customer data.
- Communicate migration status, technical findings, risks, and issues clearly to international stakeholders.
Mandatory Technical Skills:
SQL – MANDATORY
Candidates must have hands-on SQL experience.
Expected capabilities include:
- Writing and executing SQL queries
- Data analysis and validation
- Data consistency checks
- Troubleshooting database/data issues
- Comparing source and target data during migration
- Understanding relational databases and database structures
Candidates without practical SQL experience should not be proposed for this role.
Migration & Technical Skills
- Experience with application and/or data migration projects
- Experience working with databases and data validation
- Understanding of ETL processes and data imports
- Experience troubleshooting application/database issues
- Understanding of three-tier application architectures
- Experience working with cloud environments
- Ability to follow structured migration procedures and technical documentation
- Experience with automated deployment/migration tools is an advantage
Cloud & SaaS Environment
The candidate should have a good understanding of:
- Cloud-based application environments
- SaaS platforms
- Application deployment and configuration
- Cloud migration concepts
- Environment monitoring and maintenance
- Backup and recovery concepts
- Secure remote working environments
Specific hyperscaler experience is not explicitly specified in the request and should therefore not be treated as a mandatory requirement.
Data / ETL
Experience with:
- ETL processes
- ERP data imports
- Data transformation and validation
- Source-to-target data verification
- Customer-specific data configurations
- Database troubleshooting
is highly relevant.
Required Experience:
- 3+ years of relevant technical experience in application support, migration, data engineering, technical consulting, or a similar role.
- Strong practical SQL experience – mandatory.
- Experience with application/data migration or technically complex application environments.
- Experience working with international teams.
- Ability to work independently in a structured, process-driven environment.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities.
Languages:
- German: B2–C1 – mandatory
- English: professional working proficiency – mandatory
Project communication and documentation are conducted in English. German will be required for customer-facing activities.
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Customer-oriented approach.
- Ability to work effectively with international teams.
- Comfortable working with structured processes and detailed technical documentation.
- Willingness to learn a specialized platform during an intensive onboarding period.
- Ability to take ownership of migration activities and technical issues.
Onboarding & Commitment:
The project includes an intensive 5–8 week onboarding and technical training period.
The client invests significant time and resources in onboarding each consultant. Therefore, candidates must:
- Be fully aware of and committed to the onboarding period.
- Be willing to remain on the project for as long as the business requires.
- Have no expectation of leaving shortly after completing the training.
- Be comfortable learning a specialized platform and migration methodology.
Working Model:
- 100% Remote
- EU-based candidates only
- Collaboration with international colleagues.
- Work performed through secure virtual desktop environments provided by the client.
- English used for project communication and documentation.
- German required for relevant customer-facing activities.
Project Context:
The project is a large-scale transformation initiative migrating customers from an on-premises financial planning and analysis platform to a cloud-based SaaS solution.
Each customer environment is migrated individually through a standardized process covering:
Environment Analysis → Cloud Setup → Application & Data Migration → Verification → Customer Acceptance
The environment follows a three-tier architecture consisting of client, application, and database layers. Migration includes both application and data components, with ETL processes adjusted according to individual customer requirements.
The project operates under strict security, data protection, quality, and compliance requirements because it handles sensitive financial information.
Recruitment Must-Haves:
Do not submit candidates unless they meet all of the following:
- ✅ Hands-on SQL experience
- ✅ German B2–C1
- ✅ EU citizenship / EU-based eligibility
- ✅ Experience relevant to technical/application/data migration
- ✅ Availability to start after 17 September
- ✅ Willingness to complete the 5–8 week onboarding
- ✅ Commitment to remain on the project for the required duration
- ✅ Comfortable working remotely with international teams