Open to opportunities

Janice Jafri

@janicejafri

Message

Lead Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native lakehouses, streaming, and production AI/ML pipelines.

United States

Message

What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building cloud-native data platforms and production ML pipelines, with strong governance, scalability, and mentorship opportunities.

I am a Lead Data Engineer with over 10 years building cloud-native data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, delivering scalable lakehouse and streaming solutions for AI/ML and analytics. I drive cost and performance improvements—reducing compute costs by 30% and improving pipeline throughput and performance by ~45%—while enforcing governance and observability for secure production systems.

I have hands-on expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Delta Lake, dbt, Airflow, Python, and SQL, and I mentor and lead engineering teams to establish CI/CD and MLOps practices. My projects include multi-cloud lakehouses that saved $1.5M/year, high-throughput real-time pipelines, and enterprise governance implementations ensuring HIPAA/GDPR compliance and 99.9% uptime.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Data Engineer

Current

Analytics8

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Architected a multi-cloud Databricks/Delta Lake/Snowflake lakehouse supporting AI/ML and analytics, reducing compute costs by 30% and mentoring 8 engineers to improve release velocity by 50%.

Databricks Delta Lake Snowflake Pyspark Kafka Airflow DBT Azure Data Factory GitHub Actions

Sr. Cloud Data Engineer

Vectorsoft

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 11 months)

Designed Snowflake and Synapse pipelines processing 6TB+ healthcare data daily, improved SLA compliance by 30%, and optimized SQL reducing query runtimes by 40%.

Snowflake Azure Synapse Azure Data Factory Airflow SQL Terraform GitHub Actions

Big Data Engineer

Deloitte

Jun 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 6 months)

Developed Spark and Kafka streaming pipelines handling 5TB+ daily achieving 45% faster performance and scaled EMR Hadoop/Hive clusters to reduce infrastructure costs by 25%.

Apache Spark Kafka Hadoop Hive Python Data Governance RBAC SOC2

Associate Data Engineer

Accenture

May 2015 - May 2017 (2 years)

Built ETL workflows in Informatica and SQL Server loading 5TB+ supply chain data, automated 50+ ingestion pipelines reducing manual effort by 40% and delivered 20+ Power BI dashboards.

Informatica SQL Server Python ETL Airflow Power BI Data Migration Automation