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Rabina Lama

@rabinalama

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native lakehouse architectures and scalable data pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable, governed cloud data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse) with strong DevOps, CI/CD, and cross-functional collaboration to enable analytics and compliance.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years designing, modernizing, and operating enterprise-scale cloud-native data platforms across insurance, healthcare, and financial services. I build scalable Lakehouse architectures and high-performance Spark/PySpark pipelines, implement CDC-driven streaming, and deliver analytics-ready datasets for actuarial, clinical, and regulatory use cases.

I lead cloud migrations and infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform, implement CI/CD and monitoring to reduce incidents and costs, and collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, actuarial, and compliance teams to deliver secure, governed, and high-performing data solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Data Engineer

Current

JPMorgan Chase

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years)

Led migration of underwriting, claims, and policy servicing workflows to AWS, reducing legacy dependency by 80% and saving $1.2M annually; developed Spark ingestion pipelines and CDC streams that cut reporting latency from 48 hours to under 3 hours and improved analytics performance by up to 40%.

AWS Spark Kafka Redshift DBT Airflow Terraform Jenkins Pyspark

Senior Data Engineer

Johnson & Johnson

Mar 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 10 months)

Architected an Azure lakehouse (ADLS Gen2, Databricks, Synapse) enabling secure clinical and pharmaceutical analytics; optimized Delta Lake and Spark pipelines to reduce query latency by 45% and lowered operational overhead by 30%.

Databricks Azure ADLS Gen2 Synapse Spark Delta Lake Airflow Terraform Python

Data Engineer

UnitedHealth Group

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Designed scalable healthcare data pipelines for claims, pharmacy, and population health; implemented data quality frameworks and optimized Synapse workloads, improving reporting performance by 30% and reducing discrepancies by 25%.

Synapse Spark Airflow Terraform Data Quality Python SQL

Backend Developer

Allstate Insurance Company

Jun 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 6 months)

Developed Python backend services and REST APIs to automate ingestion of policy, billing, and claims data into analytics platforms, reducing batch latency by 30% and recurring load failures by 20%.