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Strategic Architecture & Migration•Legacy-to-Modern Roadmap: Design and execute the multi-year strategy to migrate from legacy RDBMS and mainframes to modern Data Lakehouses and Data Meshes.•Data Plane Evolution: Define the \"Modern Data Plane\" architecture, ensuring seamless integration between storage (S3/ADLS/GCS), compute (Spark/Snowflake/Databricks), and consumption layers.•Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Architect robust patterns for data movement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring minimal downtime and zero data loss.2. 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