
Rafael Giron
@rafaelgiron
Production Support and DataOps engineer who automated Cognizant’s monthly KPI reporting, reducing delivery time from five hours to 30 minutes.
What I'm looking for
At Cognizant, I supported Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks pipelines, resolving ingestion, staging, and runtime failures. I also automated monthly KPI reporting with n8n, reducing delivery time from about five hours to 30 minutes.
At TATA Consultancy Services, I led a four-engineer production support team that sustained 94% SLA compliance across 1,100 daily data jobs. I’ve also supported Airflow-orchestrated pipelines at Amdocs and built automation workflows, REST APIs, and data integrations using tools including Python, n8n, and Snowflake.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Production Support Engineer — Cognizant | Nov 2025 – Jul 2026 Client: FIS Global (Fidelity National Information Services), United Kingdom · Engagement concluded due to transfer of operations to Cognizant's offshore delivery center in India.
Sustained production pipeline stability across Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks, measured by prevention of SLA breaches, by identifying and
Professional development
Career Break
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025 (8 months)
Dedicated focused time to building formal cloud data engineering credentials following my role at Amdocs, ahead of transitioning into cloud-focused production support.
- Earned the Databricks Accredited Platform Administrator certification.
- Earned the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certification.
- Completed Snowflake University coursework in Data Engineering, Data Lake, and Data Warehou
Production Support Engineer — Amdocs | Nov 2023 – Jan 2025 Client: AT&T, USA.
* Sustained SLA compliance across 800 daily ETL jobs, measured by operational continuity of workflows orchestrated and monitored through Apache Airflow DAGs, through L2 production support and diagnosis/resolution of incidents across multiple platforms.
* Kept Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines on schedule, measured by
Production support & Snowflake Developer │ Team Lead
Aug 2018 - Jun 2023 (4 years 10 months)
Client: USAA Bank
* Sustained 94% SLA compliance across 1,100 business-critical daily data jobs, measured by SLA compliance reports, by leading a 4-engineer production support team and managing incident escalation and remediation.
* Kept India and US teams aligned on operational status, measured by activity reports and follow-up items delivered at each handover, by leading handover meetings cover
Client: PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos)
• Developed and optimized BODS jobs, workflows, and data flows based on mapping specifications to integrate data from multiple sources into SQL Azure tables.
• Utilized a wide range of BODS transformations, including Query, Merge, Case, Validation, Map Operation, History Preserving, and Table Comparison to ensure accurate and efficient ETL processing.
• Migrat
Client: Client: Anheuser Bush, USA
• Administered and monitored IBM DataStage environments, including job scheduling, runtime
management, and resource optimization to ensure high availability and performance.
• Provided middleware support for application integration by managing WebSphere Application Server
(WAS), IBM HTTP Server (IHS), and related components, ensuring secure and stable communi
Report Developer - SAP BusinessObjects | U.S. Healthcare Insurance Company
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017 (11 months)
Client: McKesson.
* Design and development of executive reports and interactive dashboards, enabling data-driven decision-making within the insurance claims department.
* Translated business requirements into visual reporting solutions using SAP BO Webi and Power BI, improving visibility and control over key performance indicators (KPIs).
* Provided training to operational and managerial staff in
Client: Grupo Modelo.
▪ Participated in "Indigo" Project which determined profit margins in Grupo Modelo distribution
centers, analyzing business requirements, modeling dimensional data, constructing ETL processes, and
extracting information from SAP ECC and Vertica database.
▪ Collaborated on "AllMobile" project, which examined the movement of national beer distribution
Business Intelligence Developer -SAP BODS
Teleplan International
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015 (1 year)
Role: Business Intelligence developer
Description:
• Constructed ETL for organizational initiatives, ensuring material control in US and Mexico. Designed
and developed reports used to forecast materials purchases 1 years in advance, enabling efficient
warehouse material movement in US and Mexico plants and warehouses.
▪ Developed Logical and Physical data models that capture current state/f
ETL Datastage Consultant / Production Support
HiTTS Technologies Sdn Bhd
Jul 2009 - Feb 2014 (4 years 7 months)
Client: Radio movil Dipsa-Telcel.
▪ Provide support to IBM Datastage process on call 24/7, by identifying defects, documenting, resolving
the issues, and working with change management, DBA, and other teams to come up with fixes.
▪ Involved in Performance tuning of sessions, ETL procedures, and processes for better performance
and support integration testing.
▪ Performed debuggi
Software Developer
Hildebrando
Mar 2008 - May 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Client: Opticas Devlyn.
I developed a three-tier employee attendance control system using a fingerprint reader to monitor staff attendance at branches and corporate offices.
• Responsibilities covered the entire development lifecycle, from client communication, requirements gathering, and analysis to coding, testing, and documentation.
• Web pages were created in ASP.Net using Master Pages. Ajax
Coordinator in Production Control of the assembly plant.
Jan 1998 - Jan 2002 (4 years)
Material management.
Troubleshooting to PC and servers
Local area network Administrator.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Commit Academy
Fundamentos de AWS: Cloud, Serverless y Operación
Sep 2026
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Skill Badge
Oct 2026
Snowflake
Hands-On Essentials: Data Lake Workshop
Apr 2026
Snowflake
Hands-On Essentials: Data Engineering Workshop
Jun 2026
Snowflake
Hands-On Essentials: Data Application Builders Workshop
Jan 2026
Smart Data
Especialización de Ingeniería de Datos e IA con Databricks
Aug 2025
Snowflake
Hands-On Essentials: Collaboration, Marketplace & Cost Estimation Workshop
Dec 2025 · Expires Dec 2027
Smart Data
Especialización de Ingeniería de Datos con Microsoft Fabric
Oct 2025
Santander Open Academy
Power BI
Sep 2025 · Expired Sep 2026
Databricks
Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals
Jul 2025 · Expires Jul 2027
Snowflake
Hands-On Essentials: Data Warehousing Workshop
Jul 2025
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Feb 2025
Databricks
Academy Accreditation - Platform Administrator
Sep 2025 · Expired Sep 2026
Databricks
Databricks Accredited Platform Administrator
Sep 2025 · Expired Sep 2026
Databricks
Academy Accreditation - Databricks Fundamentals
Jun 2025 · Expired Jun 2026
Universidad Tecnológica de México
Master in data analytics and business intelligence
2017 - 2019
It's a business-oriented graduate. It covers applied statistics, data pattern discovery, visualization, and decision-making methods under uncertainty — all with the goal of using data to solve business problems, with a final component focused on marketing and customer analytics.
Universidad Tecnológica de Nezahualcoyotl
Bachelor's degree, Engineering in information technologies and communications
2008 - 2012
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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