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Raza Ali

@razaali4

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Senior Data Engineer delivering scalable cloud and real-time data platforms for enterprise impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can lead modern cloud data platforms and real-time pipelines, strengthen data governance and compliance, and partner cross-functionally to ship reliable data products that enable analytics and smarter business decisions.

I’m a Senior Data Engineer and Data Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise data solutions across FinTech, Healthcare, and Software Development. I lead full lifecycle data initiatives—from requirements gathering and architecture design through deployment, optimization, and production support—so teams can rely on data products that drive decisions.

I build scalable cloud data platforms and modern warehouses/lakehouses using AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, including ETL/ELT and data pipeline automation. I also implement real-time streaming with Kafka/Debezium, and strengthen governance through lineage, metadata management, and security frameworks aligned to GDPR, SOC2, and HIPAA, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to improve data accessibility and reliability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Data Engineer

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Developers Alliance

Mar 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Led full lifecycle implementation of enterprise cloud data platforms, integrating data with Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Amazon Redshift, and BigQuery. Built ETL/ELT and real-time streaming pipelines and established GDPR/SOC2-aligned governance, lineage, and security frameworks.

Databricks Snowflake AWS Azure GCP Pyspark SQL Apache Kafka DBT Terraform

Big Data Engineer

Juniper Square

Aug 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 6 months)

Delivered big data and lakehouse solutions using Hadoop, PySpark, Databricks, Snowflake, and Delta Lake to support financial reporting, compliance, and customer analytics. Implemented Kafka-based streaming and CDC pipelines for fraud detection and established governance, data quality, RBAC, and DataOps/CI/CD practices.

Hadoop Pyspark Kafka Debezium Databricks Snowflake Delta Lake Apache Airflow

Data Engineer

Neighborhood Health Center

Nov 2015 - Jul 2018 (2 years 8 months)

Supported healthcare data platform implementations by building ETL/ELT pipelines to integrate EHR and healthcare sources, and designing Delta Lake/lakehouse warehouses for reporting and analytics. Implemented Power BI, HIPAA-compliant data governance and quality/lineage, and CI/CD automation across AWS and Azure.