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Janice Jafri

@janicejafri

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

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building secure, cloud-native data platforms and AI/ML pipelines, with strong governance, mentorship, and scalable delivery.

I am a Lead Data Engineer with 10 years building cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focused on reliable, compliant data solutions that enable AI/ML at scale.

I design and implement lakehouse and Medallion architectures, batch and real-time pipelines with Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, dbt and Airflow, delivering multi-million-dollar cost savings and performance improvements.

I prioritize governance, observability, and secure data practices (HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA), mentor engineering teams, and drive CI/CD and MLOps to accelerate delivery and operational reliability.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Data Engineer

Current

Analytics8

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Architected a multi-cloud lakehouse and Medallion pipelines (Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake), reducing compute costs by 30% and enabling AI/ML workflows; mentored 8 engineers and improved release velocity 50%.

Databricks Delta Lake Snowflake Pyspark Kafka Airflow Azure Data Factory DBT Data Governance

Sr. Cloud Data Engineer

Vectorsoft

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Designed Snowflake and Azure Synapse pipelines processing 6TB+ healthcare data daily, cut query runtimes 40% and reduced SLA breaches 30% through scalable ELT workflows and governance.

Snowflake Azure Synapse Pyspark Python SQL Azure Data Factory Airflow CI CD Data Governance

Big Data Engineer

Deloitte

Jun 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 6 months)

Developed Spark and Kafka streaming pipelines handling 5TB+ daily, improved performance 45% and reduced infrastructure cost 25% by scaling AWS EMR Hadoop/Hive clusters.

Apache Spark Kafka Hadoop Hive Pyspark Streaming Data Security API Development

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 40% and delivered 20+ Power BI dashboards.