# Alfaisal Albakri

Alfaisal Albakri is a remote worker on Himalayas, Data Integration And Automation Manager at National Bank of Iraq, based in Iraq.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@alfaisalalbakri

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Senior Data Engineer at Digital Zone, leading data teams and delivering scalable analytical data architecture.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Iraq |
| Authorized to work in | Iraq |
| Salary expectations | 120k+ USD |
| Job categories | Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Systems Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Integration Manager |
| Skills | Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Data Quality, Budgeting and Planning, Data Architecture, Data Pipelines, ETL, Cloud Migration, Data Quality Testing, KPI development, Root Cause Analysis, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Kanban, Technical Recruiting, Team Building, Analytics Infrastructure, Stakeholder Coordination, Azure |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/AlfaisalAlbakri |

## About

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At Digital Zone, I design and implement scalable analytical data architecture for ingestion, transformation, and storage. I lead the data team in delivering business insights and analytical tools, and manage hiring, onboarding, and evaluation.

At Earthlink Telecommunications, I directed data engineers building an enterprise data warehouse and coordinated a cloud migration to Microsoft Azure. I developed ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory and Apache Spark, and built data integration scripts and a data quality testing framework.
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## Experience

### Data Integration And Automation Manager (current)

National Bank of Iraq. Sep 2025 - Present

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Created data management department processes and KPIs including data quality, anomaly detection, and correction. Built hiring process for data engineering team and led team to improve pipeline run time by 45%.
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Skills: Data-Quality, KPI-development, Data-Pipelines, Team-Leadership, Stakeholder-Engagement, Data-Management, Anomaly-Detection, Hiring, Stakeholder-Management, Regulatory-Reporting

### Senior Data Engineer (current)

Digital Zone. Aug 2024 - Present

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Designed and implemented scalable analytical data architecture for ingestion, transformation, and storage. Led the data team to deliver business insights and analytical tools to internal stakeholders.
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Skills: Data-Architecture, Data-Pipelines, Team-Leadership, Stakeholder-Management, Hiring, Onboarding, Market-Research, Data-Engineering

### Senior Data Engineer

Earthlink Telecommunications. Apr 2022 - Aug 2024

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Directed a team of data engineers in building an enterprise data warehouse. Planned, budgeted, and coordinated a cloud migration project on Microsoft Azure.
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Skills: Azure, Data-Warehouse, ETL, Azure-Data-Factory, Apache-Spark, Team-Leadership, Mentorship, KPI-development, Cloud-Migration

### Data Engineer

Earthlink Telecommunications. Nov 2020 - Apr 2022

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Built analytics dashboards for sales, issue resolution time, and marketing campaigns. Worked with commercial teams to detect fraud and assess customer acquisition efforts.
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Skills: BI-Tools, Dashboarding, Data-Quality, Fraud-Detection, Vendor-Management, Power-BI, Tableau, SQL, Data-Engineering

### Security Engineer

Cybercode Technologies. Oct 2020 - Nov 2020

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Deployed endpoint security solutions (anti-malware, firewalls). Coordinated with partners to resolve infrastructure issues.
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Skills: Endpoint-Security, Firewalls, Antimalware, Infrastructure, Vendor-coordination

### Technical Support Back-office Engineer

Earthlink Telecommunications. Jun 2015 - Aug 2016

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Diagnosed and resolved customer technical issues. Configured wireless links, client switches, and intranet setups.
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Skills: Technical-Support, Troubleshooting, Network-Configuration, Wireless-Configuration

### Support Engineer

Alhayat ISP. Nov 2014 - May 2015

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Monitored overall network traffic and alerted NOC for issue escalation.
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Skills: Network-Monitoring, NOC, Issue-escalation

## Education

### University of Balamand

MSc, Computer Engineering

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MSc in Computer Engineering with a focus on Data Analytics and Machine Learning.
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### University of Balamand

Master of Science, Computer Engineering

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MSc in Computer Engineering with a focus on Data Analytics and Machine Learning, completed in 2019.
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### Al-Mansour University College

BSc, Computer Communications Engineering

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BSc in Computer Communications Engineering.
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### Al-Mansour University College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Communications Engineering

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BSc in Computer Communications Engineering, completed in 2014.
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## Tech stack

- Rudderstack
- Amazon Redshift
- Airbyte
- Apache Spark
- Talend
- Tableau
- Metabase
- AWS IAM
- Amazon EC2
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon S3
- Azure Storage
- PySpark
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Grafana
- Ubuntu
- CentOS
- Palo Alto Networks
- Amazon RDS
- SAP
- Clickhouse
- Power BI
- AWS

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