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Raza Hamza

@razahamza

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Senior Data Engineer | Data Architect | ETL & Data Integration

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building scalable, compliant cloud data platforms where I can lead architecture, enable self-service analytics, mentor teams, and drive measurable impact through reliable ETL/real-time pipelines.

I am a Senior Data Engineer and Data Architect with 10+ years designing, building, and operating scalable data platforms across cloud environments. I specialize in healthcare data integration, ETL/ELT pipeline engineering, and lakehouse and data warehouse architectures that meet HIPAA and enterprise governance standards.

I have led end-to-end data migrations, real-time streaming platforms, and production-grade observability for petabyte-scale workloads, partnering with product, ML, and analytics teams to deliver trusted, high-performance data solutions that enable predictive analytics and operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Data Engineer

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Developers Alliance

May 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Organized and productionized batch and real-time pipelines to support guest and host products, improving availability and scalability while optimizing Spark processing for petabyte workloads and reducing operational overhead.

Spark Scala Java Apache Airflow Databricks

Senior Data Engineer I

Neighborhood Health Center

Sep 2019 - Apr 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Planned and sustained scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for healthcare datasets, enforced data governance and security standards to ensure HIPAA-compliant access, and optimized query performance to reduce processing time and costs.

ETL DBT SQL Snowflake BigQuery Data Governance Performance Tuning

Data Engineer

dv01

Mar 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 5 months)

Built scalable pipelines using Python, dbt, and Airflow to transform large financial datasets into analytics-ready tables, improving latency and resource efficiency for downstream analytics.

Python DBT Apache Airflow BigQuery Data Modeling SQL

Data Analyst

TechForce Systems

Nov 2013 - Feb 2016 (2 years 3 months)

Designed dbt transformation models and data quality tests, built Looker Studio dashboards and advanced BigQuery SQL to deliver real-time insights for Sales, Marketing, and Finance.