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Noor Jafri

@noorjafri

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Senior data engineer and cloud data architect driving scalable, compliant data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role building scalable, secure cloud data platforms with strong engineering practices, CI/CD, observability, and compliance focus.

I am a senior data engineer and cloud data architect with over a decade building scalable, reliable data systems across startup and enterprise environments. I design end-to-end data platforms, migrate legacy systems to cloud providers, and enable data teams with robust pipelines and observability.

My work spans real-time and batch architectures using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, and Delta/Iceberg/Hudi, deployed on AWS, GCP, and Azure with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. I have led initiatives in regulatory compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI DSS), reduced incident resolution time by 50%, and improved query cost and performance through platform tuning.

I collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, product, and leadership to deliver AI-ready, production-grade data solutions—standardizing models, contracts, and CI/CD practices to ensure data quality, lineage, and secure access for analytics and ML.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal Data Architect

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Chime

Jul 2023 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Architected and implemented enterprise-grade, AI-ready data platforms for real-time banking, risk analytics, and fraud detection; reduced incident resolution time by 50% through observability and standardized Terraform modules to accelerate deployments.

AWS Glue Athena Redshift Terraform Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana Data Modeling Data Governance

Data Platform Architect

Palantir

Apr 2021 - Jun 2023 (2 years 2 months)

Designed and oversaw large-scale data platforms ingesting clinical, genomic, and real-world data, establishing ingestion standards, metadata management, and compliance with HIPAA/HITRUST to enable secure analytics.

Delta Lake Snowflake Redshift AWS Data Ingestion Metadata Management CI CD Data Lineage Security

Data Platform Engineer

Cruise

Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Built event-driven telemetry pipelines using Apache Beam, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub to support analytics and feature engineering; optimized BigQuery partitioning to reduce query costs and improved reliability with Datadog monitoring.

Apache Beam Dataflow Pub Sub BigQuery MLFlow Kubeflow Docker CI CD Monitoring

Junior Data Engineer

Notion

Jul 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 5 months)

Built Python-based marketing analytics pipelines and orchestrated Airflow DAGs on AWS Glue; maintained Redshift warehouses and created dbt models to standardize analytics and reduce onboarding time.