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Job Title: Data Archival Specialist
Location - Alpharetta, GA(Remote)
Description:
We are seeking a skilled Data Archival Specialist responsible for designing, implementing, and managing enterprise data archival and retention solutions. The candidate will work closely with business, compliance, infrastructure, database, and application teams to ensure efficient storage, retrieval, retention, and disposal of organizational data while meeting regulatory and business requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and execute data archival strategies aligned with organizational retention policies.
• Analyze data growth patterns and identify archival opportunities across applications and databases.
• Design, configure, and maintain archival solutions for structured and unstructured data.
• Manage data lifecycle processes including retention, archival, retrieval, restoration, and purging.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Implement automated archival workflows to optimize storage utilization and system performance.
• Monitor archival jobs, troubleshoot failures, and ensure successful execution.
• Support data migration and legacy system decommissioning initiatives.
• Perform archival testing and validation to ensure data integrity and recoverability.
Required Skills:
• Strong understanding of Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) and Information Governance.
Experience with enterprise archival platforms such as:
o IBM InfoSphere Optim
o OpenText InfoArchive
o Informatica Data Archive
o Veritas Enterprise Vault
o Microsoft Purview
o AWS Glacier
o Azure Archive Storage
Knowledge of relational databases:
o Oracle
o SQL Server
o PostgreSQL
o MySQL
• Experience with data migration, backup, recovery, and storage technologies.
• SQL scripting and data analysis expertise.
• Familiarity with cloud-based archival and storage solutions.
• Understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance frameworks.