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Muhammad Umair Farooqi

@muhammadumairfarooqi

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and pipeline optimization.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can architect and scale cloud data platforms, improve data quality, mentor teams, and drive measurable business impact in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, building and optimizing cloud-native data platforms and pipelines. I have delivered measurable outcomes — including redesigned pipelines that improved processing speed by up to 40% and infrastructure automation using Terraform that reduced provisioning time by 50% — while mentoring teams and improving data quality and governance.

My background spans end-to-end data engineering across GCP, Snowflake and big data ecosystems, with hands-on expertise in SQL, Python, Airflow/Composer, Terraform and container-based deployments. I focus on pragmatic, scalable solutions that reduce costs, improve decision-making speed and enable cross-functional teams to leverage reliable data products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Jaguar Land Rover

Aug 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Led redesign and automation of data pipelines and GCP infrastructure using Terraform, improving processing speeds by ~30–40% and reducing cluster management issues by 60%. Delivered a scalable analytics platform and mentored junior engineers to increase team proficiency.

GCP Terraform Snowflake Python SQL Data Pipelines CI CD

Data Engineer

Breuninger

May 2018 - Jul 2021 (3 years 2 months)

Developed and optimized ETL pipelines with Cloud Composer and BigQuery, improving processing and reporting times by 60% and migrating customer data to Cloud SQL to reduce on-prem costs.

BigQuery Cloud Composer Airflow Python Kubernetes DBT SQL

Technical Architect

Maersk Line

Apr 2014 - Apr 2018 (4 years)

Architected and implemented large-scale Teradata data warehouse and a 4-tier data lake using AVRO/PARQUET, integrated Hadoop and Kafka, and led data engineering teams to deliver production analytics solutions.

Teradata Hadoop Kafka Spark Data Lake Data Modeling Data Governance

Data Integration Developer

Teradata

May 2010 - Mar 2014 (3 years 10 months)

Designed and automated ETL processes, ensured data integrity and availability, performed root-cause analysis on production issues, and documented technical specifications for robust data workflows.

ETL Teradata SQL Data Quality Error Handling Automation